Subj : Re: a problem
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Adams
Date : Fri Jun 29 2001 05:15 pm

 -=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Scott Adams <=-

 NM>> Good for you,good for me...You are messing with Pascal 18+
 NM>> years,and I'm 17.That should tell me something-that I'm on the
 NM>> right place :) Thanks!
 SA>> Yeah.  You kids have it good these days you grow up on computers.
 SA>>  So most are coders by age 13 and up. I didn't even get a
 SA>> computer until late high school due to the era of computers
 SA>> (still 286s those ancient things you might read about in history
 SA>> books :)). But its been a long time coding and still learn
 SA>> something new and how to intertwine other things like
 SA>> computational structures and statistics into coding like I did
 SA>> for a game a few years ago...info from a college course i never
 SA>> figured would do me any good :)
 
 NM>> Yeah,but you can never know for sure...anything.Where ara you
 NM>> from anyway and what year did you start coding?
 
 SA> I just now have to worry about that relocation error coming back
 SA> to haunt me I've barely started the program :)

 JB> You've got serious a design problem in that case.
 JB> most of the techniques I suggested won't make an enoumous dent in the
 JB> relocation requirements

        Actually not a design problem.  Course I could
        do a bit more efficient use of one or two procs
        (got almost a dupe but they are so subletly different
        it matters) but other than that its efficient
        code down to the dozens of pointers.  I was able
        to fix it simply by ...well actually I don't know:)
        I think it was a quirk in the compiler.  I leave
        the code tues come back thurs and the erro
        pops up where it ran fine tues.  NO changes.
        Left the compiler ..few hours returned got it
        fine just now a overlay error had to move a unit
        from the overlay list (where it worked previously
        fine - go figure - gotta figure that one out
        and its a unit from my toolkit (ie I've not touched
        teh code at all).  My computer likes to play games
        with me sometimes so I think its just having
        fun :)  Seriously though I might try to work
        some of the stuff in Delphi and see if its
        compiler behaves.  I also notice settins will
        randomly falter in the IDE like directories
        for compilers and such but that's likely 99% user
        error :)


 JB> What's the program trying to do and how?

        Its a game.  But probably the most detailed
        game in history so its going to be rather
        huge :)  Not flashy since I rather have a
        realistic detail game than just some flashy
        graphics on a screen and no brain required.

 JB> How many lines have you written ?

        Don't know..not at home...but I think
        the ovr and the exe are at 400k data segment
        only 24k so far might take that down a bit
        more with some tricks adn pointers.  Just
        started and barely 3% done :)



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