1. RE: I'm back!
Michael Packard wrote:
> It's me, Michael Packard. I wrote a bunch of Euphoria games
> a few years ago and then disappeared from the Euphoria "scene"
> for some reason I can't remember now.
Michael! Dude! Glad to see you again! Welcome back!
I hope this time you're here to stay... 
We've got a Windows version, now, so start translating your games.
Please, of course. 
Later!
ck
2. RE: I'm back!
wow. my situation was almost as bad. i caught a virus that destroyed
my windows directory(refresh my memory, is that good or bad?). so,
as soon as i got a new puter, i backed everything that it left up and
installed linux. heheh. anyway, i could use a little help on my
virtual machine. you in? i'll send you the zip if you like.
mtsreborn at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi people!
>
> You'll never guess what happened to me :(
> I had to reformat my HD, and thus lost my internet
> setup.
> But I couldn't reinstall it all since that ass of a
> technician didn't leave me with a driver disk.
> So I had to order it by mail :(
> Anways, everything's rolling again, and I'm better
> than ever since I'm now using IE 5.1 instead of
> Netscape 4.
>
> The question on everyone's lips;
> How is NightShade prograssing?
>
> Well, it's Excellent to say the least.
> Having coded it in ANSI C is a major speed boost.
> It parses at 200.000 lines per second, and that's for
> a Natural Language system.
> I have being coding onit like others breathe air, code
> after code after code, and everything works from the
> start.
> I knew I was a good coder, but *that* good?
> Anyways, all i'm doing now is fix a bug in the include
> file system, where two identical files being included
> were being processed twice.
> After t hat, a good lube job on the interoreter core,
> and an Alpha of the Interpreter is out the door, wich
> currently runs, hold on, 16 TIMES FASTER THAN JAVA!
> There is no interpreter out there that's faster than
> NS.
> The interpreter uses a simple threaded code
> implementation, using slower calls instead of jumps,
> to keep things portable.
> But the real speed gain is in the fact that 1
> NightShade symbol might be transformed into 400 lines
> of C.
> For example: "create a window" will call an internal
> window creation routine.
>
> The way it's progressing now, I might get it out
> before the Beta-2 release of the translator.
>
> So long folks!
>
>
> Mike The Spike
>
>
3. RE: I'm back!
- Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com
Feb 26, 2001
--- sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> wow. my situation was almost as bad. i caught a
> virus that destroyed
> my windows directory(refresh my memory, is that good
> or bad?). so,
> as soon as i got a new puter, i backed everything
> that it left up and
> installed linux. heheh.
Damned virii crap!
Ah well, atleast it got rid of Windows for ya :p
> anyway, i could use a little
> help on my
> virtual machine. you in? i'll send you the zip if
> you like.
Sure man...
Err... what's a virtual machine?
I know what it is, but what kind of VM are you
writing?
What's it supposed to do?
A Java VM maybe? (lol)
Mike The Spike
4. RE: I'm back!
mtsreborn at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> --- sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > wow. my situation was almost as bad. i caught a
> > virus that destroyed
> > my windows directory(refresh my memory, is that good
> > or bad?). so,
> > as soon as i got a new puter, i backed everything
> > that it left up and
> > installed linux. heheh.
> Damned virii crap!
> Ah well, atleast it got rid of Windows for ya :p
heheh :)
> > anyway, i could use a little
> > help on my
> > virtual machine. you in? i'll send you the zip if
> > you like.
>
> Sure man...
> Err... what's a virtual machine?
> I know what it is, but what kind of VM are you
> writing?
> What's it supposed to do?
> A Java VM maybe? (lol)
x86 VM. for now, it'll probably be an 80186 at best
> Mike The Spike
>
>
