My days go back a bit farther but I remember doing 6502 ASM on my Atari 800. I was doing color changes during vertical scan line movement from the right side of the screen back to the left. Fun stuff, right to the hardware.

First ASM program was 27 printed pages but all of 4k in size when compiled. Ran fast, was pretty for what it was worth and was a heck of a lot of fun.

Now a Java program that does just some string parsing is just as long and does nothing fun.

I miss those days

I used to love hacking around with the VGA hardware especially. I did the per scanline palette changing stuff too, good times :)

Have you given any thoughts to decadant languages like java? I've been hard pressed to find good resources, and judging from this article I'm guessing you may have something valuable to say. Thanks in advance!

The development of Java was pretty much a political process. Sun touted it as the write once run anywhere language and sold the idea to a LOT of companies. It pretty much failed on both parts though especially when it came to mobile dev. To make it worse, the language is runtime interpreted so it's performance is garbage compared to C. It did do some things right however in regards to the idea of memory management, foreach, reflection, etc.

IMHO the ultimate language would have the power of LISP, capability to go low level like C, and have the language and IDE niceties of AS3.

Its very interesting that now-days its really hard to set a single pixel on the screen in Java, but in the past, in 1980's it was a single command.
Some things that were hard are now easy and also things which were easy are now hard.

Very true, it makes you wonder if technology is really advancing or just changing around importances of things.

@Will
Java has had just in time compiler support since 1997. It is no longer interpreted at run time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming#Performance

@Terry
I'm aware of JIT compilation and I have used J2SE and J2ME as well as C++ and BREW extensively in my career. It has been my experience that the JIT doesn't always work right (I'm not sure if it even works at all on mobile) or compile to anywhere near optimal instructions especially on ARM processors. Of course now there are interesting hybrid systems on mobile which utilize a BREW core and put J2ME ontop of it so you can use either but that's another story.

So,you've been programming games sense' 11 Eh? When I was 11,I was going around Murdering People For Klondike bars.


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can u make the exp lower 2 be a lvl 2 on andrograde plz it is just taking forever thanks

Here you have a very merry

Nothing Is ever lost,Will.Simply use your mind to Re-discover it.


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Good luck with the site Are you kidding me about my mushy shilling I have read a good joke in internet ;) What do you get when you have a cow and a duck? Milk and quackers.

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you are a crazy horrifing guy

your game rocks

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I am sure that there are plenty of positives out there, but what have you seen for yourself? Tell me about my ordinary payment A JOKE! ) What do you get if you cross a hippo and a blackbird? Lots of broken telephone poles!

Hello! Are you ignoring my black upbringing I have a joke for you =) What do you get if you cross a giant and a vampire? A BIG pain in the neck!

So... did you ever figure out the discrepancy in hit-reporting?

I think this game is really awsome one time I almost made it to a billion! {on free play} I think you should make a second one {if you have time}

Another sequel isn't out of the question. Beat Me Up and Beat Me Up Too have done pretty well for themselves.