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Re: Hi! anybody out there??

• Posted by Kirk Lang <kirklang at PRESYS.COM> Sep 11, 1996
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Michael Packard wrote:

> Hi.  I'm new to Euphoria, and want to know who out there is using the
> language and for what.  My company Lord Generic Productions is currently

Hi!  I am using the language to create a GUI for a program for one of my
customers.  The GUI worked, but unfortunatly it was too slow, so I am
investigating ASM routines for the graphics.

> investigating using Euphoria for our next bunch of Shareware game titles.
> We are very impressed with how easy it is to prototype our ideas.  After
> just a few days we have animated sprites on moving backgrounds.  Very nice.

Did you use assembler routines for your sprites?

> Another interest is modem\network connections.  We're planning a line of
> multi player combat games, and we need to be able to get them working
> over the modem at least.

I think in this case you would have to use assembler routines for the
COMM\NETWORK.  Euphoria doesn't support comm\sockets very well by
itself.

> So far, in just 4 days actually, I've been able to do image scaling
> routines, scrolling backgrounds, drawing sprites on virtual screens,
> loading multiple animation frames storing them in sequential sequences
> for easy manipulation (i.e. anim[1] is frame 1, anim[2] is frame 2 etc.)and
> am looking to do a GIF file loader later this week.  BMP files take up
> too much space.  I'm really amazed at the productivity increase I've seen.

That's impressive.
I'd be interested to know how you did your scrolling background &
sprites...I can't quite understand how you could do this with Euphoria
alone...

> If anyone is interested in helping out programming\linking external stuff
> to Euphoria for our projects, I'd really appreciate the effort.

Hmm...

Kirk Lang
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