How much coding has David Braben done?

[Oddball]

I suspect that he does very little coding now. However, the bare bones of Elite Dangerous is in fact an extension of First Encounters that DB coded. So he might not code much these days but a lot of the code in Elite Dangerous would have been written by him quite a while ago.

 

[Steve50]

I hope he's either done a lot of the coding or directly scrutinised and checked the code line for line.

tbh I don't really trust anyone else to do it right

 

[Tranquility]

The answer is lots. Read the question.

 

[Memnoch]

He codes everything he is like the architect from the Matrix

Sitting there tapping away with that pen. Intimidating stuff.

 

[Patrick_68000]

He may have done this bit ...

10 PRINT "WELCOME TO ELITE DANGEROUS"
20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
30 INPUT A$
40 PRINT "HELLO ",A$,"!"
50 PRINT "IM DAVID AND YOU ARE NOW LOGGED IN"

Joking of course

You put me a tear to the eye. The nostalgia doubtless

 

[Patrick_68000]

DB does not waste his time to code with other languages ​​that are not the assembler

 

[Slawkenbergius]

He's busy working on the Raspberry Pi port, I imagine.

 

[Cosmos]

He's busy working on the Raspberry Pi port, I imagine.

Yeah.. he's busy writing it for the R- Pi in assembler. hehe.. why do you think he never talks on the forums. :S

I couldn't blame the old fella (said with reverence and endearing respect) but perhaps he lost a few cogs in coding Frontier in 68000. Ah, those were the days..

 

[Styggron]

He may have done this bit ...

10 PRINT "WELCOME TO ELITE DANGEROUS"
20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
30 INPUT A$
40 PRINT "HELLO ",A$,"!"
50 PRINT "IM DAVID AND YOU ARE NOW LOGGED IN"

Joking of course

Allow me to modify the code for C64

10 POKE 53281,0OKE 53280,0
20 POKE 56325,30
30 PRINT "WELCOME TO ELITE DANGEROUS"
40 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
50 INPUT A$
60 PRINT "HELLO ",A$,"!"
70 PRINT "IM DAVID AND YOU ARE NOW LOGGED IN"



(Yes those numbers are real and no I did not need to look them up).

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

(Yes those numbers are real and no I did not need to look them up).

MEDIC! Get this man a MEDIC!

 

[Styggron]

MEDIC! Get this man a MEDIC!

ahhh yes that was from Beach-Head II on the C64.... they had real speech synthesis and one of the things they said was shouting "MEDIC"

I did so much C654 programming in the day, it is all hard wired in now.

 

[synchromesh]

ahhh yes that was from Beach-Head II on the C64.... they had real speech synthesis and one of the things they said was shouting "MEDIC"

I did so much C654 programming in the day, it is all hard wired in now.

AAARRRHHH !! was the other classic when you got shot and..YOU CANT HURT ME !! from the Dictator in the knife fight at the end

Its funny to think those graphics were considered stunning in the day...
But BeachHead 1 and 2 I still play now ...I just love all the Retro Stuff

 

[Commander Mick]

That reminds me of the old c64 Ghostbusters game with synthesized speech in it was well.

Although, I recall playing Beachhead a lot on my cousins C64 in the day as well.

 

[Styggron]

I love the retro stuff too and I still play it all the time.

Beach-Head I and II, Raid Over Moscow, Choplifter and the AMAZING Ghost Busters....wow !

Ok now we better get back on topic but before I leave I shall regale you all with some more coding off the top of my head no cheating.....ok lets try this.


10 FOR A = 1 TO 15
20 FOR B = 1 TO 10
30 POKE 53180,A
40 POKE 53281,B
50 NEXT B
60 NEXT A

That SHOULD work. Type it into a C64 emulator then type RUN
It should change the border colours and the foreground colours.

The foreground colours will of course change more rapidly as it is an inner loop.

Oh dear.....Liqua is heading over to the phone to call the medics !!
<runs away>

 

[synchromesh]

10 FOR A = 1 TO 15
20 FOR B = 1 TO 10
30 POKE 53180,A
40 POKE 53281,B
50 NEXT B
60 NEXT A

When I first got my 64 we had a party a few days after and I used a similar code to have the TV Flashing colours on the screen in the living room with the lights out....Our own disco lighting....People were very impressed

 

[Adam Lusardi]

Try that on face book these days!!!!!! I hate change......

 

[Kerrash]

...
10 FOR A = 1 TO 15
20 FOR B = 1 TO 10
30 POKE 53180,A
40 POKE 53281,B
50 NEXT B
60 NEXT A

That SHOULD work. Type it into a C64 emulator then type RUN...

Emulator?! Pfft, let me get out a real 6502 machine....
Hmm, how do I tune in RF on this LCD TV?

 

[Greeboski]

Emulator?! Pfft, let me get out a real 6502 machine....
Hmm, how do I tune in RF on this LCD TV?

lol .

dont tell me you never stashed a pile of TV's before they went digital :S

 

[Jenner]

Hmph. Maybe David can help me write this darn .NET/HTML5 timesheet app for work.

 

[izzy]

Hmph. Maybe David can help me write this darn .NET/HTML5 timesheet app for work.

I haven't develop with .NET ... I developped only with Java
But now it's over I do not develop anymore