Ahh, New Years Eve and we're all clock watching, waiting for the time to sing at the top of our voices while trying to remember the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne"... "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and da da da da daaaa".
Yup, it's time to glug an extra beer or three in the spirit of bringing in the jolly spiffing new year.
2018 is nigh... What wonderments will it bring?, what new ventures will we embark on? and most of all, will I go broke funding the game comps :P
Without further ado, here are SyntaxBombs highlights of 2017 ( from the top of my head and completely random ):
1.. June 2017 - SyntaxBomb relaunches after a long hiatus.. Alternate forums throw a fit but settle down in the end - forum WW3 averted \o/.
2.. Qube mortgages his business empire and launches cash based game competitions.
3.. Although born from the die hard Blitz community, AGK begins turning users to the dark side.
4.. markcwm goes nuts and posts loads of handy Blitz related info posts.
5.. New site theme applied after member revolt due to eye strain.
6.. All the old Blitz sites close down. Mark Sibly glad he lives in New Zealand to avoid physical lynching.
7.. Qube wins first game comp. #keepdabosshappy
8.. BasicBoy joins forum and storms to victory for the Halloween game comp. ( for some reason the ban button failed )
9.. Jan 2018 comp becomes very popular. Nobody has a clue what the rules are.
10.. Jayenkai airs his views on RonTek's forum. Could of got out of hand but forum WW3 averted \o/.
11.. Steve Elliott gains the most posts of 2017, gets a slap and told to get back to making his Burger Time clone shine.
12.. GaborD shows us his awesome shader work... Leaves us hanging for usable examples.
13.. Dabz goes globe trotting. Wears a Santa hat with a slogan "Twat in a hat" during Belfast visit and escapes in one piece.
14.. Matty posts artwork and videos. Members are unsure if he's mad or a genius.
15.. Yue continues his 16 hour work days, joins college, hates tutor, tries every language under the sun and starts a hosting company.
16.. Christmas arrives, forum goes dead for a couple of days.
17.. Christmas passes and members sober up and remember how to post on the forums again.
18.. Jan 2018 comp still causes confusion about virtual 320x200 res with a maximum of 16 colours. Qube looses will to live and goes to bed.
Seriously though. Thanks to all our members for helping SyntaxBomb relaunch.
Happy New Year ;D
All good, except the start of the new (solar) year was the 22th of december ;D
Happy new year guys, and thanks Qube for this forum !
Hehe that was an awesome summery. Wishing you all a safe and great jump into 2018.
Very good. Nice to get a mention too. Thanks.
It has been a great replacement for the blitz forums and I'm so happy so many old members found this place.
It's funny ;D Happy New Year!
Happy New Year guys!
Have a great new year everyone!
QuoteMatty posts artwork and videos. Members
are unsure if he's mad or a genius.
LOL.
We are game programmers, we all are genius... :D
Happy New Year to all.
Quote from: RemiD on December 31, 2017, 07:33:44
All good, except the start of the new (solar) year was the 22th of december ;D
Happy new year guys, and thanks Qube for this forum !
Brilliant summary Qube, and its feeling almost summery here in the UK as the days have stretched out by a massive 18 minutes already, and the temperature soared to nearly double figures.
Kudos to Qube for his administration of SyntaxBomb over 2017 ;D
Happy New Year Folks.
I wish you the best in your life and projects for the new year, but just to make you think a little outside the box, about what we consider "real"/"normal" (like the calendar we use, and the current year we think we are in) :
rd-stuff.fr/calendrier-republicain-structure-date.jpg ( published in France around "1793" )
( source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar )
Just to demonstrate that a lot of things we assume as "real"/"normal" are completely arbitrary ! That's all, have a nice evening/night/morning whatever.
lol ! :P
Happy New Year guys!
Happy new year. Wishing you all good fortune in 2018.
Happy New Year guys! :D
And nicely summed up Qube lol.
Happy new year!
Noob to the forum :)
I feel flattered by the mention, hopefully it will bring us this year, equally grateful to the community, especially Derron, Mr. Adams, Rick, Qube and so on.
..happy new year boyyzz...and girls...whats new for me? I bought large 57 footer boat (need some repairs but hull is healthy as horse), and after i finish repair (done many so far for others), ill be moving in and live aboard (its very comfortable vessel), so ill be away from city and madness it offers, still close enough for sake of some work..hehehe..what will happen next?? We will seeeee, arrrrrrrr :)
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..happy new year boyyzz...and girls...whats new for me? I bought large 57 footer boat (need some repairs but hull is healthy as horse), and after i finish repair (done many so far for others), ill be moving in and live aboard (its very comfortable vessel), so ill be away from city and madness it offers, still close enough for sake of some work..hehehe..what will happen next?? We will seeeee, arrrrrrrr :)
:o
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Grateful to Qube for creating this board that fills the void BRL left us with and everyone here having a blast.
Cheers to the new year mates, hope you all have good fortune, health, happiness, studying and good coding/creation joy! (in which ever language ;) )
@Naughty Alien:
Roughly +17meters, that's quite nice. Good for you man. Is it a sailing or motorized ship?
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@Naughty Alien:
Roughly +17meters, that's quite nice. Good for you man. Is it a sailing or motorized ship?
Its sailboat (it has engine but ill convert whole thing to diesel electric on my own)..its very beautiful Bruce Roberts Spray, Ketch, full keel hull, with 2 masts..very wide body and large deck, with central cockpit...inside is very comfortable with large kitchen, saloon, 2 toilet and shower cabins, and basically, it can accommodate 8 people(berths) easy..there is a lot of work to be done, but i did this before so im on my own ground..hehe
..this is ship..pilothouse is not original design, its added, as you can see from original blueprints, so ill be removing that and make it up to original design..
(https://s18.postimg.org/t29ctigy1/IMG-20170924-_WA0011_1514875169580.jpg)
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Wauw! This is really a nice big ship. Looks like it is seaworthy too and I see palmtrees in the back so that really makes it a complete paradise thing.
You are one lucky guy, cheers mate. [tumbs up]
..yeah..its ocean going ketch...interior is busted..termites did havoc on everything wooden, so boat must be gutted literally, to the bare hull and redo..engine is old cummings diesel, and its rusted..i want to ditch it because i want to install diesel-electric propulsion i designed myself and it will be lighter (existing engine is 1000kg)..some part of deck must be reskined (glassed), rigging need to be redone, etc..a lot of work but i enjoy doing this sort of things, so once i finish her, ill be sailing to Australia and NZ all around..heheh..
That is so cool. Always pictured doing something like that: On a nice tropical beach working on my sailboat. Catching some fish and eat it. Fantastic. 8) You live the dream..
:o :o :o
(https://s18.postimg.org/t29ctigy1/IMG-20170924-_WA0011_1514875169580.jpg)
Very nice boat, I wish you could fix it and fulfill all your dreams.
..hehehe..thanks..plan is to fix it, sail down to Australia, pick up Matty and other mates on the way, then sail down to NZ, then we hunt down Mark, capture him, and not release him until he finish next gen BMX/Max3D :) he will be fed properly and taken care of, of course :)
Quote from: Naughty Alien on January 02, 2018, 16:11:27
..hehehe..thanks..plan is to fix it, sail down to Australia, pick up Matty and other mates on the way, then sail down to NZ, then we hunt down Mark, capture him, and not release him until he finish next gen BMX/Max3D :) he will be fed properly and taken care of, of course :)
I volunteer as a sailor, you just have to give me food, and I take care of dirty jobs like capturing Mark and mooring him to the bow of the boat. xD
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instead of trying to convince Mark, you should rather try to contact/motivate Bobysait, he has already done most of what you desire (3d engine for Blitzmax, with shaders, with blitzbasic like synstax),
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I managed to finish a 3D engine for blitzmax, but the forum is down now, so ... I won't spend more time on it and support so, it's archived on my hard drive. Some day, I'll probably publish it on github ... some day... (I didn't think about it because there was no comunity any more)
see : https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,3421.0.html (reply#11)
True, whatever happened to Bobysait? He was on a roll with it. :(