Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Ed Federmeyer" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Why did you get your Net Yaroze? Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:05:51 -0600 Organization: Ed Federmeyer Lines: 53 Message-ID: <77857t$m3r5@scea> References: <36917A31.88F0DF44@parny.force9.co.uk> <3695400f.12603942@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <773his$7716@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Peter Wright wrote in message <773his$7716@chuka.playstation.co.uk>... > >HOWEVER, despite the requirement that you should know C before you even >start, despite the implied requirement that you should have at least a >little game experience behind you, there are a great many users out there >who have very limited experience of multimedia programming, and some with >little or no experience of C. I hope this does not seem judgmental, but I don't know how to phrase this question more tactfully. It's something I've often wondered about since the beginning of the Net Yaroze project: I am really just very very curious as to why people who don't know C or game programming would want to get into the Net Yaroze program? You need a PC or Mac to program the Net Yaroze anyway, so why not learn on that? What was it about the Net Yaroze that makes people want to learn C and game programming, when they could have done it all along on their PC/Mac? DEnnis is a good example of a non-programmer who seems to have a Net Yaroze plan and is following it. So he's the exception! But it seems like there are alot more people who have aspirations of learning C and game programming on the Net Yaroze, when the sign-up material clearly states that it won't be easy. Why not download the free DJGPP and Allegro packages and write a few simple DOS games first? (For PC at least.) Then with that bit of "free" experience, spend the money on Net Yaroze. Any insights? Any at all? I'm just trying to understand the thinking here, not saying its bad or good. EdF P.S. One argument I've heard in favor of Net Yaroze vs. PC programming is that Net Yaroze is a "common platform", whereas you need to program for all the video card, sound card, etc combos on PCs. In fact, libraries like Allegro take care of that problem for you. And even if your program only runs on 1% of the PCs out there, that is still many many many times the number of Net Yarozes available. Plus, there is a definite division between PAL and NTSC Net Yaroze users, so it's not quite so "common platform" after all. P.P.S Now, for the rest of us (you know who you all are, I trust you! :-) Net Yaroze rocks!