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[Armok]

Huh? what do you mean "necessary"? It was in a game I were programming for fun, the entire project wasn't "necessary"!

[eerr]

Huh? what do you mean "necessary"? It was in a game I were programming for fun, the entire project wasn't "necessary"!

I mean, isn't assembly hard?

[qwertyuiopas]

If I understand the context, it wasn't pure assembly, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linoleum_(programming_language).

[Armok]

Qwertyuiopas got it right, yea. It still *is* a lot more of a hassle than more high level languages, but it's very much worth it, both being more fun to program and getting MASSIVELY better prestanda than even C.

[eerr]

Qwertyuiopas got it right, yea. It still *is* a lot more of a hassle than more high level languages, but it's very much worth it, both being more fun to program and getting MASSIVELY better prestanda than even C.

For christmas, My brother bought me "The C [ANSI C] Programming Language"
Supposedly it is the best book about C. I need suggestions on what I should write.

[Armok]

A raytracer.

[eerr]

A raytracer.

A raytracer, that draws a grid of ascii symbols?

I'm not familiar with drawing to the screen.
Paste me an example!

[Armok]

I'm not very familiar with c, but you shuld be able to find some code by googling right? You just need something to convert arrays of floating points to pixels on the screen, nothing fancy.

[eerr]

I'm not very familiar with c, but you shuld be able to find some code by googling right? You just need something to convert arrays of floating points to pixels on the screen, nothing fancy.

How would you do it?

[qwertyuiopas]

It's complex 3D math. Stuff the graphics card or graphics system's software renderer usually does. When it doesn't, it's usually an advanced 3D rendering program, and only so that it can use even MORE advanced methods.

It is NOT easy stuff.


Now, on the other hand, raycasting is much easier (raytracing generally also includes reflection, refraction, shadows, etc...), but still complex 3D graphics rendering.


Armok just wants to have some sloppily coded and unoptimized C code to compare to a linoleum demo, that he didn't write himself. Not that it isn't a bad language, it's just a very hard task in any language that is best left to hardware or professionals (Best: the hardware and software interface for that hardware, when both are designed and implemented by teams of professionals, and have had 10 years at least to improve on the code.)

And Armok is jealous, because last I heard, Linoleum can't interact with said graphics hardware!

Edit: memory may have failed me, it was long ago that I think I remember reading that it had some hardware interface problems. Still looking, though.

[eerr]

Armok is a Giraffe.

[cowofdoom78963]

You guys may be doing complicated 3d maths but I just got the console to flash and make a beeping noise.


And on purpose too!

[Blacken]

I'm not sure what my best code is, but I'm probably most proud of writing an (admittedly very basic) operating system for an 80286 PC (though Andrew Tanenbaum probably deserves a lot of the credit, I did it when I was reading a first edition of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation). If I'd had an 80386 around I'd have probably tried to extend it to take advantage of its features, but I never did and didn't have a more modern computer to repurpose for it.