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- Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:16 am
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
Some have defended the content of the deleted posts, when they haven't even seen those posts. Remember kids, make sure to always read a deleted post before you attempt to defend it. No decision had been reached on the length of the ban at that time. That makes it a ban of indefinite length. Before ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:19 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Demoscene programs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5328
Re: Demoscene programs
(actually if I understand correctly it's something called "vapourwave", a new trendy word for 21 centrury guys mimicking 80s style ;) ) Yeah, it's a number of closely related audio/visual styles. My impression of it is that, rather than simply mimicking, it's more about remembering and re...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:53 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Demoscene programs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5328
Re: Demoscene programs
Can you see the problem yet? Things that make a demo for me: - it was created as a part of demoscene movement ;) - it's more or less calculated real time I agree, the second point is problematic. Many demos have precalculated parts and there are always fierce discussions when there is too much prec...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
Ahah, okay, you got me. We're actually the same person. :c
(I only think it's important in the sense of who-did-what this time, other than that Idm of course)
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:51 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
Eh, it's getting there from what I can see. Plenty of subtle (and not so) pointing at the door even ITT already. Got one in a PM yesterday too despite hardly even posting these days lul OT, is it because most of those people moved to /sc/ perhaps? Idk who did they ban this time, but surely it shoul...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:46 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Demoscene programs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5328
Re: Demoscene programs
[mention]Ralf[/mention] From my perspective, you're saying something to the effect of, 'People might want to try putting on their pants from the head (and not the usual way) for the following reasons: ...' Art discussions is an initially doomed topic on the whole that I think is probably best avoide...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:54 am
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
Much more than this controversial discussion, I am bothered by double standards and some attempts to put equality between wos and SC moderation. One wos chitchater is banned and the whole revolution is rising, but I didnt notice those voices of the righteous, when recently another long-time wos mem...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:13 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Demoscene programs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5328
Re: Demoscene programs
Overall I find it hard to take seriously as a standalone genre. It's an awkward artifical construct that can be best summed up as 'music videos of questionable artistic value produced with a$$-backwards methodology'. Its only potential unquestionable redeeming quality, that of showing the full capab...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:15 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
[mention]PeterJ[/mention] For better or worse, certain arrangements of things correspond to certain states of affair. Although in a sense you are right I guess, the final nail in that particular coffin was amazingly the 'userbase not trusting itself' factor, something I haven't quite seen before on ...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:13 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Moderator Action
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20419
Re: Moderator Action
That's a good one considering they don't trust their userbase in the first place
OT: bans over nothing, /sc/ edition
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Where are the actual scans of the machine manuals?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3437
>planetwide cancer
How was this allowed to happen? didn't someone at the time think "now hang on, html and text are great but perhaps one day someone might actually want to check all this non-reviewed, non-supervised stuff against the originals?" There's some unexplored potential in this part. With a bit of...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:04 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14567
Re: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
Sound itself conveys a mood. If you pay attention to it, you will see (hear) that, before there is even a melody or a sense of progression, even the simplest case of having a continuously playing 'sound' of 2~3 notes put together might sound happy, or sad, or scary/awkward/menacing. Or something el...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:17 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14567
Re: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
Sound itself conveys a mood. If you pay attention to it, you will see (hear) that, before there is even a melody or a sense of progression, even the simplest case of having a continuously playing 'sound' of 2~3 notes put together might sound happy, or sad, or scary/awkward/menacing. Or something els...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:15 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Re: Cannot edit older posts.
I mean something that would explain doing this out of the blue 3 months in, of course. There's typically some kind of a precedent/context wherever a serious change like that is imposed. What happened here? What did we miss? I set this parameter back in November, nothing has changed. Oh. I see. Some...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:57 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Re: Cannot edit older posts.
I think of forum threads as conversations that take place in time, so I don't understand why it's 'giving up' anything. In the end, forums are just another form of information exchange online, with its share of conventions that IIRC have remained more or less the same since the late 90's, with all ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Re: Cannot edit older posts.
Frankly, that is an impressive number of people in one place just willing to voluntarily give up on whatever they write. Anyway, it doesn't look like this thread is worth further time, so I'll keep this brief. - It would probably help to hear a real explanation about why this became needed in the fi...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:00 am
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Feedback wanted! Best choice for bullet clarity and appearance
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2631
Re: Feedback wanted! Best choice for bullet clarity and appearance
Voted the first option. 2 and 3 are more or less instances of the same thing. Unmasked printing looks easier on the eyes, but frankly I don't think you want more of that going on. Not sure how feasible this is, but you might want to try keeping the default bullet size but making the black outlines w...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:46 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Sound libraries, any examples.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6072
Re: Sound libraries, any examples.
AYFX and BeepFX are tools made by Shiru. I think the AYFX player had some issues, see on my post a link to the routine fixed by a zuno forum member. I made something called mFX last year, specifically with Cgonzalez's Gandalf game in mind. It's a system for combining AY effects+music in the best wa...
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:43 am
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Re: Cannot edit older posts.
One of the reasons for this thread is precisely the fact that, as far as I can remember, there weren't any sort of limits of this sort on the old WoS whatsoever. On the contrary, it wasn't until the forum imitation of the new 'WoS' that this practice really took root and became a noticeable annoyan...
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:06 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: In nihilum reverteris - new Polish text game from Yerzmyey
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6080
Re: In nihilum reverteris - new Polish text game from Yerzmyey
Gamebooks were very popular in the 80s, but I don't remember any Spectrum game designed as one of them. Anyway, it's a very interesting idea. I remember this one too, completed it with some effort BITD alongside a huge English dictionary we had at home (a lifeline too many times) just cuz I liked t...
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:48 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Re: Cannot edit older posts.
Maybe I’m missing something though, why would you want to be able to edit anytime? Personally I'm missing the transition from 'people should be able to edit their own posts anytime' to 'people should not be able to edit their own posts anytime' for the most part, I suppose. As well, a major website...
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9594
Cannot edit older posts.
It seems like there's no way to edit older posts. For instance, I see no edit button on this one, which was posted today a few hours ago. While I'm sure this is probably unintentional and caused by some sort of default board settings, I think it's important to not let this become a thing. As well, a...
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:47 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Randomize and rotate left.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6295
Re: Randomize and rotate left.
Code: Select all
ld a,h
and 3
cp 3
adc #57
ld h,a
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:37 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6209
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
Batty is technically OK, but is otherwise largely on the plain side, and is annoying af to play for many, many reasons. I have no idea why it's pinned fairly often as some sort of ultimate Breakout game on the Speccy, which is of course Krakout, by miles, albeit under one very important condition of...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:07 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Inverted Y origin
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2719
Re: Inverted Y origin
I'm sure there's more than one way to skin a cat, mind you. I might revisit that part sometime, but in the end I can only afford that much attention to marginally useful functionality, so it's not a priority at the moment.