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Miusheri
miusheri
12 October 2004 @ 09:06 am
This is what happens when you spend too much time testing  
No more IE on my home computer, 'cause I didn't enjoy spending hours cleaning out spyware last night. I have a very basic version of Mozilla that I might tweak or add to later, though first I will probably spend some time playing with my LJ layout. I need to do something programmery.

Some other stuff I want to get around to:
1) Programming a game- anything- in either C++ or Java. Hopefully something nice and graphical. I didn't learn much about graphics in C++, so that might sway me to Java (teh h0rr0r!)

2) Learning Flash. Seems to be right up my alley, if only I can find a way around the inherent annoyingness associated with coding in it.

3) Getting away from Windows. Obvious problem here is that Nick would kill me. Maybe I could just have a dual-boot for when we want to LAN or something. Is that possible?


I need a reliable Mac emulator. t3knomanser has gotten me thinking of a series of games I used to have when I was exclusively a Mac user (up 'til the age of 16): "Dark Castle" and "Beyond Dark Castle." They were hysterical. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?
 
 
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mqstout on October 12th, 2004 07:03 am (UTC)
http://www.zophar.net/mac.html I had decent luck with Basilisk. I remember playing Pax Imperia in it. vMac I had problems with. Avoid Executor. I think I still have a Motorola ROM image around I dumped off my old Mac that's still in my parent's closetery.
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Kit: gothkandybar on October 12th, 2004 08:47 am (UTC)
It is possible to double boot, as the computers at school do (RedHat/Windows XP) but I don't have a clue how you would go about doing that.
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Miusheri: Feliciamiusheri on October 12th, 2004 01:25 pm (UTC)
I'll figure it out one of these weekends... while Nick's still sleeping ;)
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Chrisflyskippy1 on October 13th, 2004 02:01 pm (UTC)
A good linux distribution (meaning: Redhat will work) will take care of the dual booting for you, as long as you install linux on a seperate partition.

Whenever it gets to the LILO (or GRUB) part of the installation, it should notice that you have another bootable OS.
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Chia de Boskchiasmushf on October 12th, 2004 08:49 am (UTC)
Pick up Java -- it's got all the nice things of C++ (like inheritance) without the stupid breaky things (like pointers). Also take a look at C# -- it's a nice hybrid between the two.

Why aren't you using FireFox like all the other smart people?
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Miusheri: Laramiusheri on October 12th, 2004 01:24 pm (UTC)
I've already coded with Java quite a bit, so no problem there (and I kinda like pointers- sniff). C#, I definitely should take a look at.

I never claimed to be smart, by the way. ;) I do intend to check out FireFox, I hear wonderous things about it.
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Chia de Boskchiasmushf on October 12th, 2004 01:25 pm (UTC)
What do you like about pointers that you can't do with references?

Aside from, of course, illegal memory accesses?
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Miusherimiusheri on October 12th, 2004 04:01 pm (UTC)
"->" symbols. And confusing the crap out of people XD
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