How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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:)Yeah...I still remember quite a bit of 68030 assembly code and back in the heady days of the Atari ST I used to hex edit my saved game files to cheat.
Still, not as bad as my brother-in-law who made himself a hairbrush out of processor chips epoxied to a SDRAM board...might see if I can get him to photograph that one...
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Hex Editors...Back in the day, my Dad brought home a copy of Supaplex. and the whole family became enraged by its 111 tricky levels. Once we had beaten them all by various methods, we decided to go one better, and create our own levels.
This was achieved using a pencil and squared paper, and once completed, each level was tested by going over square by square and checking the default properties for each item before the encoding proper - converting each game sprite into its corresponding hex-code.
The level was encoded by modifying a copy of the LEVELS.DAT data file using the XTree Gold hex editor then saving. Loading the game and playing the new level was the end of a long process.
Fast-forward 15 years or so to the present day and you can now download a level-editor program that runs under Windows with a simple drag-n-drop interface.
Bah!
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Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 23:41,
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