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daveand5 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

after reading this debate I would like to submit my code for consideration

if you find any part of it usable in your script,and use any of it in, even partial use, should result in a comment stating my name as author. Changing case should be considered use.

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at daveand5

i dont find your post amusing.
Sean came, he COMquered, and now gone
forum not at a loss?

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tic · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1320

Ha! I laughed at your code. I'll be sure to acknowledge you if I use that code.

I think Sean needs to relise that this is an open source forum, and was being a little selfish with his code. It's all good and well posting great code, but when it's censored, I want no part of it. I post my functions to help and no other reason, and dont want anyone else to feel scared to use them and show others what they did, like that workbreak scrip that totalbalance wrote. I feel proud that something I wrote can be included in something else someone did. I dont need anything more, as that is just meaningless.

Guest · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject:

I can see why Sean always refused the requests of tic.

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CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG

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daveand5 · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

Maybe I should explain my self better,
back in about 1979 or 80 I entered a small machine code routine in a Compute Magazine contest (for the Amiga 2000 I owned) I got honorable mention and $5. Fantastic I thought! Next thing I see is that code showing up all over the place, those of you old enough to remember those days, probably remember a game with a snake that ate little icons, and all you had to do was avoid the walls, well it had speed controls from 10-1000, very very few could handle any thing over 30-40. The speed came from routine for the joystick, it was only taking 12 cycles of time, and ran on an interupt, and results could be placed at any memory location you wanted, which allowed the interpretations to be plugged into the sprite movement registers directly.
Well to make a long story short, Microsoft bought the Commodore operating kernal, which had picked up that routine when the A3000 came out. And from what I've been told, its still there, in the windows OS, but modified for the keyboard and other human input.
my point is, I was extremely happy with the $5 and honorable mention, at the time, sometimes I wish I did get more credit for it, but it is only a joystick reading routine.
and hence, if I feel I have some code that may be 'valuable' it wont be displayed here, but if it looks like the routine could or would be co-invented I have no problem with that. and my criteria for determining if it could be co-invented is doing a search and looking at the other languages solutions, if they are there, your reinventing or co-inventing or improving!.
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I guess that assuming sean thought his code valuable enough and specific enough to warrant giving or withholding permission to use it?
And I havent seen it, and assume that because you asked him you were trying to honest and upfront that you might use it.
Again my point was that if I was sean and wanted those rights he shouldn't post it where anyone can copy and modify it.
just calm down tic, you can use my code freely, whenever you want, and I'm sort on your side and sort of on his side.
maybe I should sort of shut up and get back to work.....