Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: "Jeff Lawton" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Talent vs. Time [was Re: omigod] Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:29:11 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 63 Message-ID: <6d1gh0$aq06@scea> References: <34E10AF7.F024308@ix.netcom.com> <34E2F857.714@sms.ed.ac.uk> <6c1n9l$4706@scea> <34E87B54.B3@sms.ed.ac.uk> <6caek3$5bj13@scea> <34F38487.6C2C@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.45.215.42 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 >1 - Do you feel that you have enough time to dedicate to Yaroze >programming? As I have said before.. Time can be made if you really want something.. For a long time I didn't, mainly because work required 20hrs a day, and the on my 1 day off a week (maybe Sunday) I didn't feel like touching a PC.. Let alone learn something new.. Although now I have plenty of time.. Still working, but they are just the everyday tasks.. So a 9-6pm job now.. Plenty of time at night, and I intend to use it.. >2 - Do you regularly read the various news groups? Everyday... 2-3 times, I'll browse em, and post if I have anything to add... >3 - Do you contribute to the various news groups? Fairly regularly... I try to start topics, as well as continue them. >4 - Have you created a working program? I have create tons of programs.. For other platforms.. :) I do have some joystick libs I am coding, and I have some code that moves a sprite or 2 around a screen, but there are better demos of it that can be downloaded, so I haven't posted any Yaroze code. I have also coded a Win95/NT front end for GNU, and SIOCONS. Which is in beta at the moment, and if anyone wants to try the beta e-mail me. >5 - Have you posted the program and/or source to your member page? I have posted prior versions of the IDE/SIOCONS windows thing, but I'm waiting to get a lot of the kinks out of the new version before I post it.. I haven't posted the source due to the fact that it was coded in Delphi, and you would have to buy the comms lib I use. Not from me but from Turbo Power (Async Pro) So it would be useless to most considering that Delphi is Pascal. >6 - Do you regularly visit other member pages? Any that have been updated. >7 - Do you look at the resources on the other Yaroze sites (i.e. Europe > and Japan) I look at SCEE often.. Probably once a day to see if anyone has posted anything new. I skip on SCEI due to the fact that my kanji sucks, or maybe it's because I can't read kanji.. Now I know what it feels like to be illiterate. >Thanks for your time. Always a pleasure.. Regards, Jeff / ROUGE