SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

I need to get out of my man cave

Amiga 500 SD floppys. making some blue floppy discs where i can glue a 64GB SD card on to it. Ready for the slot 

I have my mini Amiga 500. It's so Cute. Need to make an SD Card slot for the floppy hole. Get the Keyboard working! It's a lot Smaller than i thought? Glad ive not got fat fingers. I do have an Amiga 600 case lying around   

 

My Mini Amiga 500 Arrives Monday 

Inspired by the tech news of the day

i gotta edit the about page to something better. i have a history of starting but not completing projects. looks like abandonware to me

@Baggey http://medievaldreams.io

Good Luck with the job coach. Hope you get what your looking for. As im crap at searching can you paste your Link to your website? 

medievaldreams website back up. some users were commenting (discord) the link was down.

coffee and cigarettes and life :p i just browse the internet and wonder during the day aha. seeing a job coach tomorrow

@Baggey my message below.

@Baggey i'm kinda battling sadness but i got up early this morning. havent been able to get to programming omg just busy my adhd, life (no diagnosis)

It looks like Intel is back 'Lunar Lake laptops'

I've always liked the look of Gran Turismo on Playstation 3DzForMe, but couldn't justify buying a PS for one game.

The freedom B3D offers just makes me stay with it

i looked it up @GrindalfGames very neat. i got my laptop setup on windows next is ubuntu but already uses 13% cpu for game project i started, maybe i'll build my project for libsgd convertion, or continue with b3d.

Thanks William. My first game was Dungeons of Mysteria. A first person Roguelite

@GrindalfGames  you know what looks like a super cool game, I don't remember your other titles.

Hopefully I will catch up a little in the Autumn sales

Well it looks like Paws for Adventure will end the week with a 5% conversion rate. 10% is normal for the first week on steam so Im a bit behind.

@William You're not banned No ones been banned in ages, thankfully

Anyway I really like a lot of you and want to dev with y'all

Just because I am who I am *scratches head*

Just because I'm not liked.

I think people got their finger on the ban button too much, people make mistakes. These communities are as much a necessity to me as google.

Got a PS4 with PSVR2 - both from the 'dad' shop (CEX) 2nd hand - the Wipeout XTreme is something else in VR. Yeah 'this' gen consoles - never had one. On the XBox One - Project Cars 3 - best racing fun ever. Got GT tourismo Sport in VR - thats also got its plusses, PJC 3 wins out for moi,

XBox games come to PC anyway

Playstation is probably better

@Steve Elliott I'm on the same pc bandwagon, yeah but sometimes it's nice to have an exclusive Playstation or Xbox and play with all the other players, I felt that way when I borrowed an Xbox for halo reach though I was disappointed with reach

Just pre-ordered it.

Looking forward to Planet Coaster 2 

The Sony Playstation 5 Pro is mega expensive - you might as well buy a PC. For me it's PC and Nintendo Switch 1 (2 when it arrives) gaming. 

Block block block the net is real :p

I'm not going to. Never-ending shouldn't had shouted that. Just wanted to say. it came out that way. Me deleting and retyping. Nvm..

I just wanted to say the kissing scene from ready player one was so wtf, so awful irl. I talked to the writer in 2009 in a blitz irc chat Iirc.

Fine, Hope your doing well

Alright. Listening to journey seperate ways, feeling like I got the Parkinson. How is everybody?

Yes really, Hee Il Cho always sat on the black belt grading panel. That made me extra nervous lol. Until he got kicked off for mixing up a top student with a poor one (later in life he didn't wear his glasses as he should because of vanity).

@William - no, he is just replying to the text just before his one.

@Qube yeah. We're you referring to me? I don't have any coin It's just that i didn't know. I wanted to share. May be dreams are possible. I wish I had the coin don't know what happened except deleting and giving away. May be it'd turn up some day.

Really? wow, that's some claim to fame you're just sharing with us now

The Taekwon-do coach for S Korea in the film judged me on my black belt!

Haha!! Superb, I love that line too!     

Best of the best, excellent film

Can I name it?        I can do quotes if you want. "From now on you will eat, sleep and shit competition" 

Yes I agree. He seemed so relaxed and cool, but also had the voice and the stage presence to shine in everything he did...Can you name the martial art film he was in - without google lol?

Sad to hear that. One of the most distinctive voices in film history. May the force be with you.

RIP James Earl Jones :-(

Apparently Braid, Anniversary Edition is not selling well. That's a shame because it has an interesting game mechanic and is graphically much better than the original version.

The Switch has an awesome OLED screen in portable mode. But yes it can be 'docked' and the dock plugs into a screen via HDMI. As well as the Nintendo classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Super Mario Bros Wonder it can run the old classics like Frogger and Donkey Kong to Tempest 4000 to Quake 2 (enhanced) to modern day games as you might get on Steam. The Pro controller is an extra, but well worth the investment later on...And there's a more powerful Switch 2 on the way.

It's time too kick ass! But im all out of gum. So let's go get some! AWESOME! 

If im not mistaken dosen't the switch plug in to a TV. I lived Duke Nukem 3D and Quake

I already have the Quake 2 enhanced version for the Switch - great to replay the classics now and again.

I picked up the latest bunch of Doom games (available on all platforms) for free. It's advertised as DOOM   DOOM II, but it has various mods and enhancements.

The Nintendo Switch. It's a games console that is portable but can switch to a regular console by plugging it into a monitor.  The OLED screen one is the best. 

What's Switch? I Supouse i could use a Search Engine?

Yep 16-bit graphics and hopefully an interesting adventure. I miss these types of game. I picked it up for switch, but it's available on other systems - like Steam.

Just had a Lookse @ VirtuaVerse love the Retroness of it.

VirtuaVerse looks good (if you like point n click adventure games).

Parrot OS is pretty good?

This was on a friends Windows machine. No Linux involved anywhere.

Clearly it does if you've had problems.

Having Window and Linux on the same drive doesn't matter. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/-we-couldn-t-update-system-reserved-partition-error-installing-windows-10-46865f3f-37bb-4c51-c69f-07271b6672ac . https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

No because I have Windows and Linux on separate drives.

@Steve Elliott I take it that you've never had to resize the MS Windows EFI boot partition because of a Window Update that requires a larger EFI. And the Ubuntu based distributions have an install along side Windows option.

True. But with Linux many people still want Windows too - which complicates things. It's been ages since I set up Linux, but the process (even without a multi-boot system) required some googling to get it right (unlike Windows).

Good point dawline. If you do a clean installation of Linux Mint for example it is just as easy as Windows with almost exact number of interaction.

Windows installation is simple because Microsoft only expects that Windows is to be installed. The Windows installer is no different in complexity if there are multiple partitions on a drive. You can still wipe a drive. The shout box is too small to go into details of Windows and Linux installation strategies.

Linux really needs to simplyfy the install system. Windows is very simple and you don't feel that any point you're gonna wipe the wrong drive or f -up your system!

Well I see that Linux Mint 22 is now available to download. Just got to wait about a month for the Linux Mint team to stabilise the updater for updating from 21.3 to 22.0. 

@Qube If you have any questions on Linux stuff. Just start a new topic and aim it at me or Derron.

@dawlane Thanks for the info. I always use Linux for web server stuff as it's rock solid on that side. Think I'll create a nice Linux VM and see how that flows over using MacOS or Windows for general dev stuff.

@Qube Well the biggest advantage is you're not bound to the ever changing whims of Apple or Microsoft. There is seldom any need to install a third party package manager that tends to break when a certain company decides to make "improvements" to their operating systems. Or cause headaches where a package managers repository is incomplete and you have to deal with the complexities of having two package managers that may have incompatible packages (I've had that experience on a Mac before). Plus you can also choose to install Conda, Docker, or setup a LAMP (MAMP is just the MacOS equivalent of the Linux software bundle for Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python). And no, Linux is not unique. Because it's used everywhere. Docker it's self has to use a Linux VM to run docker containers on MacOS.

@dawlane What advantages are those? I've been using things like MAMP, Conda and Docker on MacOS and not hit any brick walls yet Is there something unique with Linux?

@Naughty Alien Glad Linux is working out for you. You'll find that Linux is a much better development environment than Windows and OS X, when it comes to working with Python, Java and C/C  .

..fact that im quiet, means, works well so far..hehehe..i was able to run B4J program on it without issues...just fantastic as i have plenty of industrial(factory) applications written in B4J, and now having ability to wrap it up all in one image and just install on to target hardware is really nice..im not sure why i havent look in to 'nix side of things earlier 

I wonder how @Naughty Alien has gotten on with his Linux adventure?

RIP Lyndon J Sharp. Spectrum and Spectrum Next coder.

Being a Linux user. I love scammers when they call me making claims that my Microsoft Windows operating system has an issue. I had one on the phone for over an hour once, that was before I got bored and told him that he was a clown, and not to assume that everyone on the other end of the phone is computer illiterate. I then proceeded to tell him not to waste peoples time with BS, and to go and fornicate with himself. https://youtu.be/CuMY9L3p1KY?si=JbQ-P4KOsDWX2aSI

I'm thinking of buying a few DIP Z80's. They will more than likely go up in price when they start to become rare. C64 SID are fetching anywhere from £50-£200.

Yes end of an era...Although replacement equivalents are available.

The end of the Z80. https://youtu.be/cbMdq8Dsz6Y?si=dtUObZR04o9Tf3E_

run fast on many systems

But sometimes a system for coding can be good if it's underpowered - so you will almost guarentee it will run fast - I use a mini PC for that (Win11  Pro 8Gb Celeron Intel UHD Graphics 600). 

My Windows Laptop has Win11 16Gb 12th Gen Intel i5 12450H 2Ghz Nvidia RTX 2050 8Gb and on the mac side a 32Gb Apple M2 Max.

For the best compatibility (and so my number 1 choice) I would always go with Intel and Nvidia, even if it wasn't a cutting edge system for that combination and there were other 'better on paper' systems...Having said that ARM processors do seem like the future. Apple with it's M chips and Qualcomm with Snapdragon.

@therevills The Intel UHD is pretty terrible iGPU so I'd avoid that one. If I remember the order of performance is something like Intel HD, UHD, Iris, Iris Plus / Pro, Iris Xe and Intel Arc. There are probably others but for like gaming then personally Xe minimum and preferably Arc if going down the intel route with integrated graphics. On the AMD side they have the AMD 780M which is probably the best integrated GPU going. Of course it goes without saying that dedicated GPU's are the best.

@therevills The AMD has the better integrated graphics, but also has it's issues. The new laptop I've got is a ASUS ROG Strix G713P (2023) with a Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU with a Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060. The APU with this doesn't like some games, and a rare issue that I have when the keyboard will become unresponsive in some games at random.

Thanks Qube, I thought Intel had fixed their graphics issues for old?

If you plan on coding games or wanting to do light gaming then definitely for the AMD as the Intel one has the dreadful Intel UHD

Buying an new laptop, should I get AMD or Intel? Looking at the https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpade/thinkpad-e16-(16-inch-amd)/21jt001hau vs the https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpade/thinkpad-e16-(16-inch-intel)/21jns0tw00

You simply cannot take advantage of the processing power of the chip with a poor limited operating system with cut down versions of software that's available.

@steve what is your point?

Yeah I can't see much point having a powerful CPU in an iPad. In a laptop with a better OS and software, yes.

Not sure if I wil get the ipad pro 2024. Yesterday the antutu benchmark only showed a  /-20% increase in cpu and gpu. Stil lagging behind gaming cpu's.

But it's an ARM's race right now lol. With Apple M Series of chips and Microsoft Qualcomm with Snapdragon.

After the M4 systems I see Apple struggling to improve for some time. So then I will wait some years before I upgrade my laptop.

interest

@Qube, while my M2 Max Macbook Pro is fast with a fantastic screen, the GPU improvements in the later models interests me...If a Macbook Pro with a M4 Max comes out I'll probably pick that up.