[Kosh]

Heh, you can tell why the Intel Processors won out over 6502  Mostech actually had the faster chip, but it was such anightmare to code for it that not nearly as many Assembly games got written for it, and in those days, if you wanted an action game to run at any decent speed, it HAD to be in assembly. Z80 was easier, but I remember almost none of that now.

Damn you're old.

[Hippo]

Thats why they went to 16 bit. They couldnt count to his age with 8bit.

[Scooby_Doo]

your missing a "\n" after "c++" 

I dont need that if its not looping though

ACtually you do otherwise you'll get something like this:

**** basic use c++**** basic use C++**** basic

Ohhh I see now....
Now if your running from the command prompt you might still want the \n there otherwise it could do this:

*** Basic Use C++C:\

[Kosh]

Thats why they went to 16 bit. They couldnt count to his age with 8bit.

[Hippo]

Doh!





I completely forgot about whent he prompt comes up. Damn, so close too.




EDIT: ok thats gay, bring back lvlshot.

[Scooby_Doo]

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( every-time
   ( true )
   ( send-message
      "#Command"
      "High"
      "use FRED"
   )
)
I win!

how about this

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begin UseTCE

short doOnce

if (doOnce == 1)
    return
end

set doOnce to 1
messageBox ("Use Morrowind TCE Scripting instead!")

end


[kode]

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loop { puts "y'all got it all wrong.\ny'all should use Ruby instead." }
no seriously. blocks rocks.

[Scooby_Doo]

Morrowind script has got to be one of the worst.....

You probably can't do something like this

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set positionX to Player->GetX + 10it may work, but probably not, it should work if you use this:

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set positionX to Player->GetX
set positionX to positionX + 10
not to mention you need a doOnce flag for ALL scripts, because they are continusually ran (once per program step)
actually for the infinite loop that'll be easy

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begin TCEBasic

mesageBox ("Don't Use Me Please!!!!") ;

end
not to mention theres no debugger and if something goes wrong the script will just stop running often with no warning 

[Hippo]

TIBasic:


Lbl A
Disp "**** basic"
Disp "use a calculator!"
Goto A


(optional add a 'pause' before the goto and it will wait for the user to press enter before repeating)

[Scooby_Doo]

how about Snobol:

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Start   Output = "Use Snobol!"  :S(Start)


[Descenterace]

Well...  going by the fractionally-finished spec of Megaplex:

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@(0,0,0) { DIMENSION 3 } (+5, +6, -2)
(+1, +2, @4) { EXIT } @(0, 0, 0)
@(5, 6, -2) { PIPE "Use Megaplex!" STDOUT } (-4, @2, +6)

Horrific, no? It is correct code, so see if you can figure out the syntax.  

[Flipside]

Heh, ye can tell why th' Intel Processors won out o'er 6502 Mostech actually had th' faster chip, but it were bein' such anightmare t' code fer it wot not nearly as many Assembly games got written fer it

What th' hell, ye scurvey dog?  The 6502 were bein' th' dominant CPU in th' 8-bit era by a huge margin.  It only lost popularity when 8-bit CPUs in general were superceded by 16/32-bit CPUs.
 

6502's were in things like Commodore 64's, Orics Jupiter Ace and BBC Micros (Plus a few others)  in the home computer market, whereas the Z80 was only really famous for the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad 4xx and 6xx series.  But then, look at how many games were written for the Spectrum compared to the others, on account of Z80 being a lot more flexible and quicker to learn than 6502. 

Actually, to be honest, even when the 16-Bit CPU's started, the Amiga, with the 6502 based Blitter technology held it's own for a long time.  Were it down to hardware only, it would probably still be a serious contender, however, it wasn't down to hardware, especially once tho x86 series started creeping out of offices an' into houses.

And yes, I'm old, you bastards

[Kamikaze]

Kinda on topic: http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html

[ZylonBane]

Actually, to be honest, even when the 16-Bit CPU's started, the Amiga, with the 6502 based Blitter technology held it's own for a long time.

6502-based Blitter??

Okay, now I know you're deeply confused.

[Janos]

I HACK THE INTERNETS

[Flipside]

Yeah, you're right, the Motorola 68000 set had the Blitter chip mounted on it, that was my mistake, it was the Apple 2 systems that used the 6502.

Still doesn't change the fact that the Z80 outbid and outsoftwared it's 6502 competitors.

[ZylonBane]

Not in America it didn't.