quote: Original post by Caroline_M
Hi all,

Hi

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.. I''m writing games for the Commodore 64!! I got hit by the retro bug last year and haven''t been able to put it down there''s nothing scary about the 64 and as its such a tiny, simple machine in comparison to todays computers,

I had a similar idea sometime ago about learning z80 and doing some coding the spectrum.

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do what I was never able to do when I was 11 years old, and above all - have a load of retro fun!

same i think when i turn on my spectrum

Good luck in finding work. Im glad that someone wants to follow their dreams enough to do something about it. Enthusiasm definately helps :D

Just to let you know that you probably wont learn much about programming commmercial type games from coding on the C64 as the methods have changed somewhat. Though to learn the basics its probably a pretty good idea. I learnt to program games using Java, which meant that my games were easily accessible on the web. I didnt understand everything to start with (there are things i dont understand now !), but slowly as you progress and delve into more features you learn significantly.

Direct and Win32 are not increadibly difficult to learn, they just look it ! Once you have the basics you are halfway there.

Best of luck,

Ant
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I''m not expecting to learn anything from it really - but I wanted to get a game *done*. I am one of those people who starts things and never finishes them so now that I have at least completed one game, its a little boost.

quote: PS: Are you a woman?

LOL! Yes, you know many men called Caroline?

quote: Original post by alnite
PS: Are you a woman?

*Imagines 15 yr old boy wearing cardigan breaking out into a sweat typing that messages*

Just a joke

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[edited by - Spadge on December 24, 2002 5:32:06 PM]

Glad to see women here, this forum is so...manly.

quote: Original post by Caroline_M
LOL! Yes, you know many men called Caroline?

It''s a nickname, who knows ?

Flamewars don''t make you look smart, but idiot.

Hey, Commodor64''s rule.

I wanted to make games when i was 10 and i worked on a
few using a manual that came with the ol'' Commodore.
Never made anything good (no math skills at that age) but it was fun.

It''s exactly like QBasic, except you have to number each line.

Good Luck.

If you''re interested in getting a game *finished* like you say, then go for premade libraries, seriously. Getting something finished is a big morale booster; and with most libraries, you can gradually phase them out. Think of them as stabliser wheels, if you like.

Also, there''s a lot more to game development than knowing DirectX/OpenGL/whatever. If you use things like SDL to create a ''sandbox'' for yourself, then you can work with all the things that really matter - gameplay, AI, physics, animation, etcetera.

Superpig
- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he''s not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.

Thats a good point Superpig. I would rather create half a dozen finished projects with the help of a few libraries, than struggle with just one with everything written from scratch I guess.

I was given ''Programming Role-Playing Games With DirectX'' for Christmas which gives me something to get on with but that won''t help me knock something up quickly. Still, I got my snake game finished! I think I''ll do Tetris on the 64 next, so I''ll at least know how it all goes together so that it might be a bit easier by the time I get onto DirectX and/or SDL.

Caroline M.

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I''ve had that manual sitting to the side of my keyboard, since I started programming when I was 8. That was about 18 years ago. Welcome, Caroline.

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