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In Windows I'm sure that many applications can do that, but in Linux the partitioning would mean that all applications are on one disk, I don't think you can put x application on the SSD and y application on magnetic disk in Linux. Once I sell my car I'll buy the 256GB for peace of mind - an extra $50 isn't much

I'm a programming student and I really like what technology can do to make lives easier. I'm 5 weeks into the course but it's fun to drool over the possibilities. I'm not doing any maths or geographical things on my course so it isn't likely I'd do any transport work, but it's really cool to see what can be done with maps and location services. Most people discovered this stuff years ago but I only got a smartphone last December. My phone is nearly 1/4 the cost of an entry-level iPhone but I can do everything I need when it comes to buses/navigation. I'm curious to know if anyone here has used car pool applications, particularly by Ride Shark. If not, who cares I'm up for a game of 0 AD if anyone is online. I've got next week off so I'll be gaming in between studying.

I think it's normal for applications to install onto C:\ but is it more common now to let the user install on another partition or another drive? That'd be good if you had low value applications - put them on the slow drive.

Isn't that what flash drives are for? Unless you're pirating movies you shouldn't need that much. Plus if you upgrade you can keep your old drive anyway. I could live with 256GB for a few years. I only use 80GB of space on my desktop PC. It has 2 versions of Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and a few basic games. My backups take up less than 20GB.

It turns out that the car pool web site for New Zealand is down, they are making a new one. Actually, they are making a whole application with new features. I asked what company had the contract and it's a Canadian company called Ride Shark (see links at the bottom). They specialise in developing car pool software. If you look at the video/animation on the front page you'll see a scene of a convertible driving on an open road. If you look closely at the curvy mirrors and the shield between the headrests you can tell that it's a Mazda Miata 'nc' (2006-2013 model). I thought that was pretty cool because I couldn't think of a more environmentally conscious car, well, unless you include electric or hybrid cars. When I think of the Miata I never imagine bitter old men shaking their fists at other drivers LOL, it's the perfect car for a web site which is all about happy, low-stress commutes. Last year I took a few photos of the new Miata/MX5 (front photo - rear photo). But even if you can buy your dream car (or second-best dream car) it's hardly worth driving where I live. Buses have horrible delays in my city but that's only because too many people drive, falsely thinking that it'll be quicker. I like to drive between 7pm and 7am but it's almost pointless because I don't mind walking 3km in the rain to get to my course. I've got a "dry bag" to protect my laptop, it's camping gear but you can fit a laptop. Also for buying groceries I can buy them online and have them delivered for about $15, I haven't tried it yet. Everywhere is narrow in my city, all the side streets are basically one way because there are cars parked on either side. There's cheaper and smarter ways of doing things - programmers and engineers of every kind know that. One good step is to have car pool systems so we can reduce traffic by eliminating redundant trips. We're approaching the rainy season here in Christchurch so I've already called the council and requested bus shelters where I depart from. Every little bit counts. Try explaining that to the "average" person they will never understand. They're too busy getting ripped off and exploited. They think it's easier to "stay put" In New Zealand there's a big "crisis" at the moment, heaps of people in their 20s and 30s complain that they can't afford to buy even the most basic house. Why compete? I want to move out of New Zealand all-together! I'll go where the work takes me. No-one is being forced to live here http://www.letscarpool.govt.nz/ https://www.rideshark.com

I bought a desktop PC about 2 years ago. At the time solid-state disks were a wee bit expensive so the guys who built my PC didn't put one in. I really want one now because I'm on a programming course and sometimes Windows Update plus other software installation will take (almost) all day to complete! It's really annoying because it causes unnecessary stress and I can't stay on task as much as I'd like to. I have enough distractions already, like walking to the shops to buy ingredients, then cooking, and then later on cleaning the dishes. Windows Update on a mechanical hard drive is infuriating in my opinion, it wastes valuable time. Everything takes longer to install or upgrade. It only costs $180 in my currency to buy a 256GB solid-state drive so I'm going to do that once I've sold my car. The laptop that I bought for my study has a solid-state drive and it's pretty good at not crashing despite only having a petty AMD A-4 CPU. Operations take a while to complete but it's reliable. My desktop PC has an AMD A-10 which is fantastic for everything except graphics capability. I'm going to get a budget ASUS video card so I can play 8 Bit Armies on at least medium settings, probably on full I think! Although the A-10 isn't as good as some of the i-5 processors, I think that the combination of a solid-state disk with a cheap AMD CPU is very, very good for saving money. I strongly disagree with Intel's pricing, especially when the hard drive is usually the culprit responsible for slow speeds. Why waste money? I've used the AMD A-10 for 2 years now and I don't regret it. I'm going to upgrade it with a new hard drive and a graphics card and it'll be useful for another 5 years. I might go full-Linux too, and have Fedora on one PC and Debian on the other. That'd be a lot cooler than running Windows 10. Next year, once I have a programming job I'll no doubt be forced to use Windows, against my will. It'd be stupid to use Windows at home too, when I have the choice not to.

I made the mistake of opening links on visualstudio.com and it turns out that the build instructions lead there too, only that it redirects you to VS 2017.

A few weeks ago Visual Studio 2017 went from Release Candidate to being an official version. I'm using it for my course. Moments ago I switched on my desktop PC and I planned to install both VS 2013 and VS 2017 - a nice bonus is that I managed to get my SDL project to build on my laptop (using Visual Studio) so why not install VS on the desktop PC too I downloaded VS 2013 with "update 5". When I try to run the exe it says "Update 5 does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your computer". There may be a way around this but I didn't experience this the last time. It's a quest to find VS 2013 on a Microsoft website. Every time I look it up, I get lost! What would it take to move 0 AD from VS 2013 to VS 2017? Update: aha, I can get Visual Studio 2013 (Professional version) via my course. What do you guys do? Do you trust 3rd party websites to install VS 2013?

There are so many World War II games on Steam, my friend's son seems to own several titles. As for me I bought 8 Bit Armies and its add-ons about 2 weeks ago. I recommend 8 Bit Armies and the Guardians Campaign. Buy the 8 Bit Hordes and 8 Bit Invaders expansions if you want to play something whacky and creative, I've already beat the Light-Bringer campaign in Hordes (read the latest posts on CNCNZ for more info on 8 Bit Armies and 8 Bit hordes). My AMD A-10 can run 8 Bit Armies pretty well but there is a slight drop when there's 100+ units in a battle so I turned down particle effects and shader detail.

Cool, 'spidermonkey' in sources is the one. "spidermonkey: Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++. JavaScript is the game's scripting language of choice (game logic, AIs, random maps, etc)" I'm so stupid I thought that Spidermonkey was written in javascript, but it's written in C/C++ and it handles javascript but it isn't javascript itself LOL Update: what files are part of spidermonkey? Is it source\scriptinterface? Update 2: "ScriptEngine scriptEngine" that looks like the initialisation of Spidermonkey and it's in main.cpp Update 3: I searched the entire VS 'solution' for references to 'ScriptEngine' and 'scriptEngine' and couldn't find very many. It doesn't seem to lead me to anything that I was looking for.

I'm not interested in specialised things like animation, graphics or ai. Where do I find the functions that are responsible for basic gameplay mechanics? I mean the functions that handle practical things, like unit creation/unit death, construction, and the in-game UI. What files should I look at? I can use ctrl + f in Visual Studio 2013 but it isn't very useful.

Keep it as civilisations. It sounds 1,000,000x better!

I started my course this week and I tried out the Bing Maps plugin for Visual Studio. Microsoft has a good video which explains what their engineers are working on. Personally I think that Bing Maps is terrible because when I search for a street name, it finds that street ... in America! Then I add [street name] Christchurch and it finds Christchurch in the UK. In the end I have to put "Christchurch New Zealand" on the end of each search. It seems that the Maps app in Windows 10 is the one you're supposed to use, not bing.com/maps Microsoft is doing advanced things with maps but the most impressive project is Microsoft Cognitive Services. Also, for no reason: go into File Explorer if you're using Windows 10, type "datemodified:" into File Explorer's search box and a calendar appears. You can hold shift to select multiple months (to search in). Another thing: you can restart Windows Shell by using the Task Manager - select the File Explorer process (it's always running) then "end task" changes to "restart" - this means restart the Windows Shell (if you click it). If you have trouble with your Windows desktop environment, you need to restart the shell ... random stuff I've learned this week.

darnit I'm an idiot - I've used Linux for 10 years and never knew how to grep files. I thought you're meant to use the 'find' command to find text in files (I believe that 'find' runs 'gawk' or 'awk'). I never knew grep was so useful! https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-grep-command/ http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_04_02.html

These videos are less "showy". There's no need to show off graphics and gameplay when demonstrating pathfinding See also, Retro Ahoy on Youtube and his video about Pacman's ghost ai https://youtu.be/15dxuAbTC0A?t=7m48s

I'm currently on KDE so I'll use "K develop".

Ya and if I search for a function, then gawk (find) is a good tool in Linux right? Is that what you guys use? If someone has a quick example please share

What I mean is that the tutorials are found when you click "Single Player" and then choose from "Demo Maps". I read another post somewhere, suggesting that the tutorials should be found under "Learn To Play" - then tutorials are found first. I want to know what files to work on, and what knowledge is required to do this.

The tutorials are hidden away.

I'm trying to build the source on OpenSUSE and I keep getting errors. I'll try to build and it'll say it's missing libminiupnpc-devel. Then I'll install libminiupnpc-devel and build again, then it'll say I'm missing libXcursor-devel. I'll install libXcursor-devel and then build again, and it'll say I need this-or-that other package. This is really stupid! The dependencies should have all been installed in the first command, but they're not. This is different to Fedora. Fedora was much easier. Update: one minute later I get it working. Okay good but there is a quirk here with what packages are installed on OpenSUSE versus other Linux.

Linux or Windows doesn't matter much in my opinion. I first compiled 0ad on Linux, then on Windows, and now on Linux again (on a faster system). The problem with Windows is that Visual Studio is clunky old software, and to install Visual Studio 2013 (the only one that can build 0ad) you need to uninstall Visual Studio 2017 RC or Visual Studio 2015 if you have them. Microsoft insists that people only install Visual Studio versions in order (eg. 2013 -> 2015 -> 2017 RC). It's faster to install the Linux dependencies than it is to install Visual Studio, I will accept that.

Linux is great! I'm thinking of installing Linux on my desktop PC: I have a Windows laptop for my study (which starts on Monday next week) so I could easily have Linux on my main PC (the desktop). About an hour ago I tried to create a new folder in Windows 10 and suddenly file explorer was "not responding" ... after 20 seconds it closed itself! I started to get interested in Linux back in 2006-2007 when I was 16-17 years old, I had Ubuntu Breezy Badger. I wasted a lot of time trying out different distros - don't do what I did hahaha. For all things stable I like Debian and OpenSUSE (Debian has out-dated software, you'll probably hate it if you use it as your main OS, but no-one denies it's stable ). I like Fedora but it's often buggy ... Fedora will be running fine until they introduce a bug through the updates! OpenSUSE is the one I'd like to install, if I decide to use Linux again. I played Age Of Mythology in 2012-2013, my (former) step-brother got me obsessed. Before that I hadn't played an AOE game since about 1999-2000! When I was about 9 or 10 I was watching the intro scene for the first AOE game and my friend commented that the graphics were good. I can't remember what was great about AOE ... except for the AMAZING CHEATS LIKE PHOTON MAN! Cats are great. My cat is 14 years old but he is hilarious! He also has a tail that has racoon stripes.

If I have any questions I'll take them to IRC first. I sat on the IRC channel a few days ago and no-one was talking, everyone was lurking lol I disabled all the advanced water features and I only get 15 frames per second maximum, perhaps I should reduce textures too. The textures look very good! I flicked through the source files and realised that some components are specialised (eg. shaders, graphics technology). I think anyone who wants to work on this game has to be told exactly what files to look at.

I like an element of timing and economic management. Even Command & Conquer had some of that, you could build a refinery for $2,000 and sell it for 1/4 of its value (and keep the free harvester that came with it) or you could build a harvester from your war factory for $1,400. You either slow your construction queue or your unit building queue. There is also timing with regards to resource distances from your refineries. Age Of Mythology and some other RTS games go beyond the basics and involve multiple resource types. I see nothing wrong with that, if anything we need more of it! EA's interpretation of C&C is much faster than the original games, there is more rushing and launching cheap attacks, and less base building.

It doesn't say much about pathfinding though.