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Tetris-like game
Pete:
Hi All
I have to agree with the points Ian makes.
I do admit to getting a little annoyed when Rick gets into his religion thing - Sorry, Rick, this is an OS/2 forum - but when he concentrates on OS/2 related topics I find him interesting.
If I had the technical skills I would be interested in finding out more about his projects with a view to possibly getting involved. However, being a very occasional vaguely competent programmer using a pascal dialect/variant and with little spare time I doubt I could be of any help at the moment - must be over 20 years since I last wrote a very simple c program...
I certainly wish him all the best with his projects and look forward to seeing the results at some time in the future.
In the meantime Rick do Please keep posting progress reports.
Regards
Pete
Andi B.:
I tried to refrain from answering you again but as you constantly preach your point of view and ignoring what others say I have to make a final post on this from my side.
For me it seems you don't want to take advices from others and you absolutely don't want to discuss arguments coming from others. Instead you constantly complain that others are not polite enough to you. ('hatred', 'sidelong insults', .... ). For me it's obvious you understand a lot of what was written here in a different way than I do. That's okay. People are different. Communication is a complicated thing especially if it happens only in written form and when non native speakers are involved like me.
For me all what you write here is a lot of marketing speech which is hardly related to OS/2. Neither your religious things nor your private things belongs to this forum (only my personal POV of course). Even most of your technical talking is hardly related to OS/2 ('tetris for windows', even your ES/x are clearly different to OS/2 as of your own words, and even your goal is NOT to run OS/2 software but to rewrite all of them at best). That's the reason I will ignore all your future posts.
As you constantly emphasize your skills and your project leading capabilities to try to motivate others to follow your ES/x development I think you neglect that there are other experienced people here with similar skills and know how. I for myself work in computer industry for more than 30 years. I've programmed basic graphic VGA drivers and applications like your tetris more than 30 years ago. I've worked for so much different projects, small and big, software, hardware, complex systems, ... that I've seen so many successful projects but also failing ones. I've seen so much people who talk about projects and ultimate features although they don't had the insight to really understand what they are promising. A lot of time people are simply to childish to have an overview of what it really takes to make happen what they are promising. Some 'programmers' built there first C hello world program and think from now they are the hero software leaders who will lead the world in the near future. That does not mean you fall in this category. But your resistance to discuss the consequences of your talking ('we can rewrite them all') is not the best requisite for handling such a big projects well IMHO.
Anyway I wish you success with your projects. Maybe sometimes when you have something OS/2 related or even Linux related I'll even test it. But I for myself being not very interested in Windoze or DOSish stuff anymore.
Live long an prosper.
RickCHodgin:
--- Quote from: Andi B. on January 22, 2019, 10:27:47 am ---Anyway I wish you success with your projects. Maybe sometimes when you have something OS/2 related or even Linux related I'll even test it.
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Linux: A 6x6 chess game called Chess36. Compiles under GCC 4.6 (when I wrote it in 2012). Runs under X.
Linux: An x86 protected mode disassembler. Ported from my Exodus OS x86 module into C and GCC, it takes as input a binary snippet and translates it into assembly opcodes. It was designed to work with the instruction pointer's address, and decode whatever's there in 32-bit pmode assembly.
OS/2: The XDF extractor utility, which takes 1.84 MB .XDF or .DSK files and extracts out their contents to the target folder. Works in Windows or OS/2. Also on eCSoft/2, and Hobbes.
--- Quote ---But I for myself being not very interested in Windoze or DOSish stuff anymore.
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I only use Windows because it has the best developer environment in existence. Show me a toolset more capable than Visual Studio 2017 (or even approaching it somewhat) and I'll switch today. I actually use Visual Studio 2008 for nearly all personal development.
--- Quote ---Live long an prosper.
--- End quote ---
Peace and long life.
UPDATE: Your post and Star Trek reference made me think of a reference that is applicable here. "In every revolution there is one man with a vision." :-)
RickCHodgin:
--- Quote from: Andi B. on January 22, 2019, 10:27:47 am ---For me all what you write here is a lot of marketing speech which is hardly related to OS/2. Neither your religious things nor your private things belongs to this forum (only my personal POV of course). Even most of your technical talking is hardly related to OS/2 ('tetris for windows', even your ES/x are clearly different to OS/2 as of your own words, and even your goal is NOT to run OS/2 software but to rewrite all of them at best). That's the reason I will ignore all your future posts.
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I've been thinking about my goals for ES/2 and while I do not agree that my posts here are "marketing speech," I do agree that it is not directly related to OS/2. My goal with ES/2 is to create something OS/2 users can migrate to and have a new open source OS that has the look, feel, and general design of OS/2, but is not OS/2. It will be an amalgam of OS/2 design and what I personally view is needed to be a good user-based OS (not server-based).
As such, I'm content to leave the forum here and continue development on my own. I have a website, a wiki, a forum, etc., and will continue to develop and use those assets and tools for my project's needs.
Peace and long life, Andi B. Good luck with your work on keeping OS/2 4.x and its direct descendants alive.
UPDATE: If any of you would like to follow along with ES/2 development, please feel free to contact me via email.
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