ITT Alice and Spectere discuss DMZX

[Bobbias]

Still not much of an excuse. Any compiler worth it's salt can tell whether your using a symbol for one thing or another by the context it's used in, even if they don't support operator overloading by the user.

[Spectere]

Sure does
I stopped using "set commands (-1>>1)" and started using "set commands (10000000)" to try making it less awful.

Marginally less, you mean. :p

Still not much of an excuse. Any compiler worth it's salt can tell whether your using a symbol for one thing or another by the context it's used in, even if they don't support operator overloading by the user.

Not the way it was used in Robotic's syntax.

I suggest learning the language before completely bashing it; there are very, very good reason that things were the way they were and that they had to wait until bytecode was eliminated before being able to correct them.

[Alice]

Marginally less, you mean. :p

Marginally?  Using one million instead of 2 billion at least gives me a chance to get out of gameplay legitimately instead of CTRL+ALT+Delete and nuking the site from orbit Hoak Hogan

[Spectere]

Marginally?  Using one million instead of 2 billion at least gives me a chance to get out of gameplay legitimately instead of CTRL+ALT+Delete and nuking the site from orbit Hoak Hogan

This is true.  I've kinda been spoiled by multicore...

Speaking of having to nuke shit, do you know if 9.MZX still kills MegaZeux? XD

[Alice]

Well...



Considering the image I used there in place of a screenshot

Actually, I have no idea, I haven't tried recently.  I assume AJS has made the port a lot more stable and better at handling broken things (for instance, it wouldn't even run Mana Lust until GreaseMonkey fixed it, and the only thing broken there was a board pointer being off by 1).

[Spectere]

Oh wow.  I love you for that. <3  Though I love how 9.mzx seems to have the power to pop up an application error over top of a BSOD.  That's some serious shit. :p

My favorite part about the whole Lesbian Space Pirates thing is how pissy a select few people got over it.  Unintentional trolling for the win?

[Alice]

It was one of the first Google Image Search things I found for BSOD.  The dialogue box actually says something like "bluescreen.exe has encountered a problem and must be shut down.".  I couldn't remember the exact effects of 9.mzx, but I think at least one person complained about a BSoD.

[Spectere]

Yeah, I seem to remember that, too.  Considering how quickly it sucked up RAM, I'd say their system probably had a hardware problem (bad RAM will do that) or they were doing something insane like running it under Windows 98.

That's one thing that 9.mzx never did for me was annihilate my system.  All it did on my computers was to keep eating RAM until Windows finally said, "ah hell naw" and killed it.

In a way, despite how amused I was with the finished product, I sort of wish that it did work as intended.  Alexis even gave me a few pointers about the intricacies of how MegaZeux stores boards.  You see, it's all her fault. :p

The wave of MZX "viruses" that followed it were a little annoying, though.

[Bobbias]

Windows ME.

Fix't

[淫蟲]

The wave of MZX "viruses" that followed it were a little annoying, though.

ハッハッ、ごめんね。我没好笑了。

[Spectere]

Fix't

Windows Me is technically superior to Windows 98.  Its problems -- like Vista -- primarily dealt with manufacturer support.

Regardless, run any Windows 9x/Me system out of memory and it's not going to handle it well.

ハッハッ、ごめんね。我没好笑了。

UR LANGUAGE IS FUNY.