LAST POST! WOO

don't you dare take my title

shite, forgot the "!"

LAST POST! WOO!

wow... don't i seem to be chattin' it up by myself

'k

according to the link given (to download devin) our friend larry:
lives in his parent's basement
has no friend 'cept for his keyboard, his precious keyboard, with whom he makes sweet passionate love every night
he wants to do naughty things with a wookie

additionally

good think his page is screwed up (or maybe the link). it kept us away from devin, else we would have downloaded it, out of perverse fasination of course

lastly

the music on that site sucks hot dog fat created by rolling the things under a heat lamp all day. why couldn't he have played the ultimate song: silence. poetic i know, but really, you cant listen to that awful music

oh and of course, i would usurp my own title if i did not shout:
LAST POST! WOO!

Apparently, the devil devoured Devin, 'cause it's (he's?) nowhere to be found.

Fuddes, I hope you were aiming at Cyanide when you did that--that would explain the missing "!" (and the double "WOO")

Massive Coils of Poop? Wasn't that an early 90's industrial band?

I dont know about the band, but i do know it describes the site that is where devin should be

I have a big weiner.

Callipygian: awesome. Just brilliant. Where the hell does Naomi come up with this stuff?

could we focus on devin pl... ooh look! a kitty!

my weiner is bigger

I'm not sure that I'd consider an eleven 'callipygian'.

11

Just look at it. Pretty boney-assed if you ask me.

Now '800', THAT'S a callipygian kinda number! Maybe even 'mammalicious'!

according to the article, this is devin v2 we're seeing (and the title agrees). therefore, my wang is larger

and you thought i would stick to the topi..... LAST POST! WOO!

Thank You Ladd
http://homepage.mac.com/defendersofeternity/Devin%202.sit
That link is the horror know as.... DEVIN!
*ominous doomy music plays*

Might I suggest we all follow longdong's example and show the author of the Second Trackback EVAR! on PvT what the real PvT spirit is all about?

the link repeated here for you lazy goobers:

http://www.reasonableness.com/archives/4_More_Perversiontracker.com_thoughts.html

Not to toot my own horn, or actually, because I DO think very highly of myself: if you visit the page linked in my previous post you will be able to read my lengthy spirited defense of PvT, Actual Programmers and all that is holy.

Thank you.

Ach, Leibnitz, you torture me with regrets. (That night in Vienna!) I did in fact consider awarding this awful app a "callipygian 8.8" but was thankfully strong enough to avoid the bottomless pitfall of literalism.

Heh. Heh. She said "bottomless."

Yeah, and MAD PROPS to Thuros and longdongsilver for their wild-eyed PvT evangelism. Take it to the streets! I'm not yet old, bearded, an Actual Programmer, or quite THAT obsessed by the male reproductive organ -- but I do admire your work. From a safe distance.

Naomi, you, Ladd and Jan will always be Bearded Men to me.

FIRST POST! WOOHOO!

Damn, too late

Thuros, your spirited defence of PvT was, well, spirited. However, I would like to point out one little historical tidbit. Before the abomination known as "Visual B****", MS released a version of B**** for the Mac way way way back in the mid 80's. There were two versions: MS B**** Financial, which had higher precision decimal numbers but ran slowly and MS B**** Binary (I think binary, don't remember exactly) which had lower precision decimal numbers but ran faster.

It even had syntax coloring (well, syntax boldening) waaaay before Metrowerks ever did that on the Mac. I don't think Symantec ever had syntax coloring, but whatever.

MS B***** was an interpreter, but they later released a really flaky compiler that never really worked right. Since it was an interpreter, you could even step through your code. It would put a big huge rectangle around the line of code currently executing, really weird. And then there was the command-line window, where you could test out quick crap on the fly. Good God that brings back memories. "Nibble Mac" anyone? Then I graduated to Aztec C and then Symantec's Object C (Think C I think it was originally, TCL, a bastardized version of C++, really, really bad) and finally on to Metrowerks which really kicked ass.

I still use Metrowerks for about half my work, XCode is still a piece of crap if you ask me. Oooh, I forgot all about Pascal, but I see we are running out of time, so that will end our history lesson for today. Let's see if I can remember any B****:

10 PRINT "What is your name?"
20 INPUT n$
30 IF N$ = "longdongsilver" PRINT n$;" has a big weiner." ELSE PRINT n$;" is a loser."
40 GOTO 30

I have VBdos 1.0
It is good stuff, for me at least, because it allows me to write quick programs for quick access to com ports.

And I have decided I will release my programs for $5 dollars each.

my first program is called clear screan. it will be open source
here it is:
10 cls:
20 print "REGISTER! $5"
30 do naughtystuff until i=4
40 if bed=dirty then i=4
50 loop

I humbly submit myself for cleansing. What have I done? Please, torch me to a flaming death.

Hi lds, thanks for the extra fragments of Mac B**** history. For the sake of brevity I decided to leave out certain parts of the development of programming languages on the Mac, as you may have noticed.

== NOTICE: If you wish not to partake in the celebration of all that is I, please move to the next comment, thank you. ==

However, I certainly have used my share of 'em. I vaguely remember MS Basic, I used it on my Mac ED (512k education model I got from my aunt who worked at the University here.) I became friends with the sysadmins there (it was all-Mac there) and got Turbo Pascal 1.1 for Mac. I made the hit "Renamer" with that. Just type the full path to the file you want to rename and then the full path again only with another filename and it renames it! You can then even "try again".

After a year or two I jumped over to THINK Pascal 4 and made some stupid XFCNs for use in Hypercard stacks. TP, too, had syntax emboldening and -- even -- outlining and it had the greatest error message ever: "This doesn't make sense." Confronted with this succinct, to the point and not interpretable for alternative meanings message, the programmer had to confess to his stupidity and figure it out for himself.

Five-star products like DiskEraser, Disco (full-screen random colorpixmaps flashing in succession!) and such flowed from my gifted fingers.

Pascal got old and I moved to PPC Assembler, C and CodeWarrior Gold. Demo Scene effects and finally, the NES emulator GrayBox were the result. The first product I and other people actually wanted to use. And yes, it's still out there on the internet.

Referring back to my article on that other site, I am just SO glad internet got popular AFTER I made all my stupid apps. PvT, had it existed then, would have ripped me to shreds and, oddly, that's exactly why I love them now.

Good God. If Hypercard still existed today in any usable form, I'm pretty sure PvT would be tearing it to shreds too. It really was a truly brilliant concept for its time, but the implementation was incredible bad. I mean, like, really incredibly bad.

The neat thing about it, though, was that all the stacks were distributed to run in the Hypercard interpreter, which meant that all the source code was there, if you were patient enough to look for it.

XFCNs and XCMDs were always way screwed up. They never did what you wanted them to and if they did that meant that almost certainly they wouldn't do it on someone else's machine. Ha! The first computer animated porn I ever saw was a Hypercard stack, can't remember what it was called. But the soundtrack to it was called "moovgroovgroups" I think. Barbie 1, that's what it was called. I think. Then there was the Startrek stack where if you went to the right hidden card you could see one of TNG chicks naked. In black and white. It was titillating.

Life was such a simpler time 20 years ago. Now everything is in colour and it gives me seizures just to think about it.

Ayeee! I just remember COM (SCOM? XCOM? What was the Apple version called? I think Symantec could compile Direct-to-COM at one point) and OLE. I guess you could call that the compiled version of Hypercard, i.e. every object has code associated with it that can be reused. In theory. Or something. I actually used the email app (or was it a Usenet newsread, don't remember) that Apple released with all that crap. With the fake yellow notepad as background. And the dogcow that went moof.

And then there was the big floating uselesss analog clock. That would deserve at least a 10.9.

Just out of curiousity, if this is the "Second Trackback EVAR", what was the first one? I don't recall seeing it.

Also, naomi: you admit to not being an "Actual Programmer" yet. This disturbs me. Does that imply that you started of as an RB "programmer"? Or that you are really some sort of English major and only have "programming" "in your blood" via blood relations?

And have you ever been to Canada? We have plenty of fancy chickens up here, although many of them have been slaughtered due to the bird flu virus. But that means you could make fancy art out of them!

"Or that you are really some sort of English major and only have 'programming' 'in your blood' via blood relations?"

My cover is blown! I must flee the palace to join my fellow English-major exiles in the catacombs... curse you, longdongsilver, and your big weiner!

"Now everything is in colour and it gives me seizures just to think about it."
-LDS

"Black and white; sleep at night"
-Henry Aguirre, formerly of George Lithograph

BTW:
Badger

I think we all know by now I don't program. Well, I do but not really. And I barely know anything code wise. But that is what school is for. And also researching methods of utilizing a flamethrower underwater. I'm considering a combination of napalm and a blowtorch for the igniter light. This way, the gooey napalm will still light and propel itself, ablaze, through the watery depths of the....water. Anything it touches will be enveloped by its gooeyness and burned alive. Such fun. And I think I'll use C in the BIOS. Flamethrowers DO have a BIOS, yes? Well, as long as burning is to be had, all is happy.

"Referring back to my article on that other site, I am just SO glad internet got popular AFTER I made all my stupid apps. PvT, had it existed then, would have ripped me to shreds and, oddly, that’s exactly why I love them now."

Hey, I also went down the MSBasic->Turbo Pascal->HyperCard->LightspeedC->THINK C->CodeWarrior route and I couldn't agree more. I'll keep my vault locked, shall I...

Wow, was I the only one dumb enough to have MPW for development? Now it's BBEdit and make files from the terminal. None of those sissy IDEs. Of course, the stuff I work on has no GUI, so PvT can't pick on it. That and the fact I wouldn't tell any one here what it is that I work on.

They put English majors down there?

But then where do the cats go?

MPW was too scary for me back in the day. Nowadays, though, for quick and dirty stuff g++ is a godsend compared to trying to do the same thing in something like CodeWarrior or XCode. BBEdit? Come on, if you're in the terminal you might as well do it with pico. pico kicks ass!

So, yeah. I remember b****. Hell, it was taught to us in school, back in 1982 or so, by some useless bloody ex-cobol person who couldn't make it in the real world. Yeah, b**** ruled. for about 15 minutes. I moved on to 6502 assembly, then to C, as soon as possible. Oddly enough, later on I took a programming course to fill some time in my schedule, and they insisted on teaching us b**** again. which most of us ignored, and simply used as a mechanism to load machinecode onto the mini. Which resulted in removal or our accounts, as we would use this to do the most creative 'crash the mini' exploits. My favourite was scheduling recursive print jobs (the print queue would eventually use up all available memory and crash the machine) while scrolling rude messages on the blinkenlights. Ah, happy days.

The shame of it all is, I've lost my old casettes of Vic20 code. I rewrote 'boink', the ST demo, in 6502 assembly, just to piss off a friend. I'd love to have that back. Sooooo much hexadecimal.

And now, it's all Xcode. Life is so easy. Kids today. don't know they're born. etc.

Yeah, I remember them kids. Them with their Fortran, and their Cobol, and that sissy PL/1. "Watfor" they'd say, and me, I'd say, "Exactly!". Life's pretty friggin' easy with one of them tidy little 360's to make you look good. Back when we were real men, we calculated rogue orbital trajectories on slide rules and abaci. Hell, me and ol' 'Stinky' Turing used to sit on the hillside outside of Greenwich, gettin' stiff on good malt and doing primary Boolean conjectures, in binary, in the dark, WITH TWO FREAKIN" METERS OF SNOW ON THE GROUND. Yeah...

Damn kids...

10 CLS
20 Print "Winky"
30 Print "Winky" again
40 Keep Printing "Winky"
50 I'll be back, I need to go to the bathroom
70 OK, I am back
80 You can stop Printing "Winky"
90 Stop
100 Stop, Dammit!!!
110 For the love of god will you STOP Printing "Winky"
120 Whew thanks
130
140
150
160 ... Print "Winky"

; assume first five chr-ram blocks are filled
; with the characters W,I,N,K,Y
; assemble, make a plain 32+8k NES rom image
; from it and run it in your fav emu
; this might actually work, but probably not.
; I don't know why I did this, I do know that
; it's now 2AM and I should be doing something
; else entirely, like guzzling down vast
; quantities of beer. please help me.

org $8000
cld
sei
waitv:
lda $2002 ; ppu status
bpl waitv

main:
ldx #$08
stx $2000 ; ppu ctl1
stx $2001 ; ppu ctl2
ldy #$20
ldx #0
sty $2006 ; vram-addr hi,lo
stx $2006
stx $2005 ; scroll h,v
stx $2005

tiles:
ldy #5
stx $2007 ; vram-data
inx
dey
bne tiles
lda #0 ; hi-order palbits
ldx #$23
ldy #$c0
stx $2006
sty $2006
sta $2007
sta $2007

ldx #$3f ; pal-addr in vram
stx $2006
sta $2006
sta $2007
stx $2007

die: jmp die

org $fffc
db #$00,#$80

The characters W, I, N, K, and Y, as well as the entire phrase
"guzzling down vast quantities of beer" have been shown by three eminent computer scientists to be present in Unix SysV, thereby making you in violation of the SCO Group's license and copyrights. Fortunately for you, Mr. Thuros, we are currently having an extra-special sale on Unix licenses, and can offer you perpetual rights to SysV, as well as transportation rights between the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, for the low, low price of $19.95! Don't delay, just up and pay!

OH GOD IT'S HIDEOUS

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23549

What CPU does the NES use? I thought it was an ealry 68K, but obviously not. I figured out most of the opcodes there, but what do cld and sei do? Are they assembler instructions?

That's a single-operand architecture! Cool! Never seen one of those. I guess the second operand is implicit in the instruction coding though.

I think you have an infinite loop in "tiles" since you keep loading 5 into the y register so the dey (presumably "decrement y and set status bits") instruction will never get you to 0.

that is pie for where are good hampser-related wankers

http://www.wine-software.net/winext.shtml

where can i find the music for the wig and foot movies

and i just sneezed

longdong,

the NES uses a modified 6502 called the 2A03 running at ~1.79MHz. The SuperNES used the sort-of-successor, the 65816. The 6502 has A, X and Y (and SP and P (processor status)) registers. A is the accumulator used in mathematical instructions or as a general register. X and Y are mainly used for counters and as index for indirect addressing.

CLD is CLear Decimal bit, disabling decimal mode wherein ADD and SBC would treat data as Binary Coded Decimal. This mode was removed from the 2A03, btw, but every cart I've seen does cld, sei as it's first two instructions.

SEI is SEt Interrupt bit, effectively disabling non-NMI interrupts.

For lots of good technical info on the NES, visit http://nesdev.parodius.com/

And yes, the tiles: label should of course be placed _after_ the ldy #5, but hey, read the disclaimer.

If only I could unscrew my left foot. I'm sure I stashed a hip flask of Wild Turkey in that leg.

Belvedere, the monkey wrench, s'il vous plait!

No, no, you maroon! Don't wrench the monkey! He'll ...

Too late. Well, you'll just have to clean it up now. Use a pair of Grandma's bloomers. She has no use for them now.