An Attempt To Get Organised
Well, for those wondering, the previous entry was inspired by Something Awful being stupid, and aside from suddenly changing their tune and then arguing that they haven’t, they used Paypal and wondered why they got screwed over. Idiots. They have acted so ridiculously that even UK Resistance has taken a fairly nasty shot at them, looks like they pissed off a few people with this rather dramatic backflip.
Anyway, after reading over the backlogs of a programmer type’s Web log, I have decided the only way any of my projects are actually going to get moving is to write about them on here. So without going into details (both to cover myself in the likely and embarrassing event of not actually doing anything and to protect privacy of these things at their early stage) I have started on:
- A shootem’up for the Acorn (probably trying to squeeze what I can out of a 2Mg A5000, but I may have to increase the minimum memory to 4 or 8 meg, depending on how intensive it gets
- A simple, but extremely fun sounding database which if done nicely could be a lot of fun for a lot of people.
- A remake of a cool little 8-bit game (which is going very well, but for some reason I am stuck on).
- A small Java project which can go in many directions but will probably start out as a character editor for the c64.
- A very complicated algorithmn in ANSI C designed to solve any starting position of a standard solitaire board (you know, the one with the pegs in a sort of cross thing). This has been mostly written but some of the more complicated search algorithms remain in my mind. I would really like to get this done as an example of optimal code.
- A lot of reading on vastly different topics relating to both my honours study next year and my own programming abilities
So, having said that, my newest plan of attack (this also comes from a friend) is to deote some time to just one of these projects. For now i will be the 8-bit remake, because in my opinion it deserves the most attention. Hopefully within the next few days I can get some work done and then congratulate myself online. After all this wouldn’t be a real blog without heaping self praise on myself and complaining about how stupid some friend/member of the opposite sex is.