Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Daniel Brown" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Anyone home? Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:24:50 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 44 Message-ID: <8u392n$glp3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <8u286o$khi1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <8u2fna$glp1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: m388-mp1-cvx3b.ren.ntl.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 I'm still here, some others are as well. Daniel "Rikki Prince" wrote in message news:8u2fna$glp1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > "Nathan Miller" wrote in message > news:8u286o$khi1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > > Does anyone else check the newsgroups anymore. I guess most have > moved away > > from Yaroze programming, but I hope to have some exciting new tools > to help > > others develop good game demos. But, I guess since there is little > > possibility that games are recognized right now (no demo disc) > several > > people moved to DirectX programming. Sure wish they would come > back :-) > > I'm still about, and check this newsgroup regularly, but I haven't > checked any of the others for ages (as Outlook Express did it's silly > 'I'm not gonna work just to piss you off' trick and I needed to > reinstall an' all), so I won't be sure of what's new and what's not. I > haven't done much programming at all for a long while. I couldn't do > much at the start of the year, as it was leading up to my GCSEs, and > there was loads of last minute coursework and revising. Then after the > exams, I had 8 weeks before returning to 6th form, and my plan had > been to spend that time programming, but my big plans were scuppered > by a 4 week holiday to the US, with my family. the next 4 were wasted > with getting over jet lag, catching up with mates, anticipating GCSE > results and finally realising I'd be starting A-Levels in a week. Now, > with the A-Level workload, and the amount of extra-curricular > activities we're encouraged to take part in for UCAS references, I > barely have the time to do anything. However, one encouraging thing is > that I've had loads of ideas for games, and have been jotting them > down, and the last thing I was working on was a library of functions > which simplifies everything, which when I finish, will allow my to > quickly knock out a few basic games. Anyway, enough of my story of the > past year, I gotta go get some sleep... > > Rikki > >