OT: Look what I can do...

[Captain Kwok]

I used to make all sorts of variations of my Random Hockey Madness / Random Baseball Madness simulators - first in a language called Turing, then to various degrees in good ol' basic, qbasic, and lastly visual basic. The programs were fun, but unfortunately lost in that HD crash a couple of years ago. I never got back into programming after that.

[dogscoff]

I used to spend hours writing spaghetti code in AMOS- a bulky but easy version of Basic for my old Amiga. I was entirely self-taught, but I taught myself to use procedures/ functions rather than GOTOs (although I never understood how or why I should pass a parameter to a procedure).

I used to produce some really cool scrolltexts and joystick-driven animated menus for compilations of (other people's) games, with lots of neat home-pixelled graphics/ fonts with brilliant dance music by a friend of mine, who used Fasttracker or Octamed or something similar. It was spaghetti code, it was all entirely unplanned (I always had a vision of how I wanted it to look, but never knew how to plan code- just started typing) but it all worked. Some of it was fairly sophisticated, too. I remember I had one scrolltext that went from the bottom of the screen to the top, casting a shadow-text beneath moving at a third the speed. All the while I had a 2-player "Tron" game running on the other half of the screen.

Then I got a girlfriend.


I'd love to look back over those programs. Unfortunately all the data is on floppy, and PCs won't read amiga floppies, even with emulators.

[Gandalf Parker]

Since we are on this subject.....

I would be interested in a CGI which is the simplest possible for UPLOADING a file to a linux webserver. Such as, if I click it then it goes the full path to "C://program files/Space Empires IV/mygame/myturn.fil" and uploads it. No questions, no options, no checks and verifications.

[Instar]

Gandalf Parker said:
Since we are on this subject.....

I would be interested in a CGI which is the simplest possible for UPLOADING a file to a linux webserver. Such as, if I click it then it goes the full path to "C://program files/Space Empires IV/mygame/myturn.fil" and uploads it. No questions, no options, no checks and verifications.

Perl is what you want for CGI. PHP is better though, IMO.

[NullAshton]

For you people who are curious, here's my QBasic program. It should be fairly easy to figure out what to do

[Gandalf Parker]

Instar said:

Perl is what you want for CGI. PHP is better though, IMO.

I wouldnt care if it were written in Basic. In this case my definition of "better" would be simplest. Kindof like a game my programmers used to play called "I can do that in # lines of code".

[Instar]

Gandalf Parker said:

I wouldnt care if it were written in Basic. In this case my definition of "better" would be simplest. Kindof like a game my programmers used to play called "I can do that in # lines of code".

Well, do you want to learn how to do it yourself, or do you want a freebie or something? I think there are some free Perl cgi scripts...

[Gandalf Parker]

No on the learning. Ive got a ton of books and help sites on that. I just want something that I click and it sends
"D:\Program Files\Space Empires IV Gold\Empires\mine.emp". No questions, no choices. If its simple enough then it will serve my purpose of being able to modify it on the fly.

I thought there might be someone here who writes their own CGI's. If not then no problem, I can keep asking around.