Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 20:39

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C first. Then object oriented languages after. Also this won't teach you to be a developer. That is something which encompasses a much wider skillset (problem solving, logic, technical documentation and many more) and is really only a skill that comes with time and practice.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 12:34

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You were probably tired of those TPS reports as well. Hi! to be true, i need to google what "TPS report" is.. i did not understand very well yet, but i think never have any of this stuff here in spain or argentina where i born. The last years i work as informatic i was working as robot programmer …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 22:16

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Yep, spot on.

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:47

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The only caution I would raise against learning C via something Visual studio is that it hides much of the implementation detail from you, specifically the distinct stages of preprocessor, compilation and linking. The plan so far has been to use the C language debugger from Microsoft Visual Studio. …

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 17:41

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DosFreak wrote on 2024-04-24, 14:28: theelf wrote on 2024-04-20, 08:44: Im computer programmer, but I work as construction worker here in spain because is better paid You were probably tired of those TPS reports as well. Yeah.... I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday.

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 16:53

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The only caution I would raise against learning C via something Visual studio is that it hides much of the implementation detail from you, specifically the distinct stages of preprocessor, compilation and linking. Arguably if you want to be a C programmer you need to understand what is happening at …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 22:56

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You haven't mentioned the grand daddy of it all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language You could do a lot worse than starting with that. Much of it is still relevant today. It is clear and concise and direct from the authors of the language, and Unix itself. If you want to learn …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 07:19

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Yeah, if you are not familiar with using C to write simple little things first, text display, file io, memory allocation etc, then I think jumping straight to VGA graphics display is likely a step too far.

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Re: what is the funniest or oldest cpu/watercooling combo you have ever seen?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 07:28

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I'd love an absolute screamer of a 286 as much as anyone else who owned one at the time (somewhere between 25 and 30mhz is the stability limit on the best boards I have found)... But realistically none of the supporting memory controllers (or memory itself) will go much higher than that... so it's …

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Re: what is the funniest or oldest cpu/watercooling combo you have ever seen?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 07:23

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If I had a milling machine, I'd be so tempted to do an utterly ridiculous water cooling setup, like on a 286 or something nonsensical like that. i hope someone tries to overclock the crap out of a 286 with some insane cooling solution like that someday The problem with over locking 286 (and 386 for …

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Re: what is the funniest or oldest cpu/watercooling combo you have ever seen?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 22:13

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I bought a water-cooling kit for an Athlon XP system. In reality it was a really crappy water block with two push on barbed tails, some tiny diameter silicone hosing, a 'radiator' barely big enough for an 80mm fan to fit on it and a tiny fishtank pump. It was genuine crap, but at the time I thought …

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 22:07

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Always worked in IT, but the field has changed quite dramatically. I started out in general system admin support, before moving in to database admin, middleware development and then infrastructure design. I currently focus on high performance and scientific computing - supporting scientists and …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 17:18

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Is the PCX file you are opening one you have constructed yourself? The reason I ask is that the wikipedia definition of the PCX file format says: If a PCX file has a 256-color palette, it is found 768 bytes from the end of the file. In this case the value in the byte preceding the palette should be …

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Re: Is it really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…

Posted on 2024-04-19, 16:45

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I can't get to grips with a lot of modern fps, shooter or even action games, despite being there at the founding era of the PC FPS shooter. It seems as though there is a huge percentage of games made now that require the reflexes of a hyperactive flea to play them. I don't 'get' the whole genre made …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 13:59

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Open watcom or GCC (aka djgpp). GCC is probably your more 'modern' of the two. GCC is protected more only though... I do recall some branch which targeted 16bit code, but it's not a very common variant. Open Watcom recently re-emerged after a long retirement. djgpp hasn't seen an update in a long …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 13:52

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The very real drawback for Pentium Pro system is lack of MMX unless you shell out for a Pentium II Overdrive. (Really just a PII Xeon processor) MMX is basically useless for these processors. Useless in what way ? Yes I know that back in the day they were only HEDT machines ...but every single CPU …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 09:12

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I obtained an intel pentium pro from a random assorted box of cpus i bought a while back and ever since i got the processor it has just been sitting on my shelf as a shelf piece. i was wondering if anyone here has had any experience using these processors, is it worth spending the money on a socket …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 08:11

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I obtained an intel pentium pro from a random assorted box of cpus i bought a while back and ever since i got the processor it has just been sitting on my shelf as a shelf piece. i was wondering if anyone here has had any experience using these processors, is it worth spending the money on a socket …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 18:02

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Open watcom or GCC (aka djgpp). GCC is probably your more 'modern' of the two. GCC is protected more only though... I do recall some branch which targeted 16bit code, but it's not a very common variant.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 12:34

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Swapped out two ESS1868F soundcards with a Yamaha YMF719 to try to solve a faulty digital sound playback issue on Tyrian, Dune (not the rts) and a couple of others. Surprisingly it works perfectly; which is a real shame, since the same ESS cards work brilliantly with around 220 other games installed …

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