Who is the GREATEST COMPUTER NERD ON ILX?!

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Step right up and take the challenge. Tell us a few things about yourself that make you eligible for the title of 'GREATEST COMPUTER NERD ON ILX'.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my first computer when I was 4. As mentioned on the typing-without-looking thread, I could touch-type by age 6. I wrote my first computer game when I was 7.

Bring it on, bitches.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I found the secret level on Rainbow Island.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My father invented the help screen.

(He's not on ILX, though, and I am not computernerdly. But I coulda been.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I started programming when I was nine. I can program in C, C++, Java, C#, Basic, Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, and COBOL, and can form structural procedures in SQL, PL/SQL, and Logo. I own a Bluteooth mobile. I know inside-out and can [usually] administer systems in Windows, UNIX [AIX, Solaris, HP-UX], Linux [Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Debian, Caldera, Mandrake], OS X, and older Mac OSes. All my music exists in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis form, and I own two MiniDisc players. I can build a PC from scratch. I can get 120 stars in Super Mario 64. I own two PlayStation tee shirts, a PS2 hat, a Super Mario esky, a Donkey Kong drink bottle, and a Super Mario Beanbag. I have a plush penguin on my monitor. And I wouldn't have admitted to any of this if I wasn't bored spastic.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew, you win, because only the biggest computer nerd would start this thread.

Tep, yay for dads. My pops wrote what was basically one of the first client/server "shopping cart" type applications on the web.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I already know I lose to Andrew (and Adam too by the looks of it, haha).

But I bet I have dated more IRCers/LJers than anyone else here. That must win me some kind of nerd prize? (we're talking double figures at least)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing a shopping cart dealie is cool too!

I will add to my not-really-nerdness: I never learned to write in cursive because I did my homework on the computer the whole way through, which is probably not unusual now but wasn't exactly common 20 years ago. My signature is printed.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

My first computer program was written on a GNAT System 9 CP/M OS using Microsoft Basic v1.0. I also programmed a PDP-9 using actual paper-tapes and a Burroughs analog computer from the late 50s solving partial differential equations with a wired punch-board. This was all done in 1979 when I was 13 years old. In 1981 I wrote a Space Wars knock-off game for my Apple II completely in assembly language. I've programmed heavily in BASIC, Fortran, Pascal, Lisp, SCHEME, C, C++, Java, and Objective-C.

Annoyingly, I haven't been programming nearly as much as I used to. Most of the jobs I've had over the past ten years have been tech support/net admin garbage jobs. What code I do get to write is mainly PHP/SQL.

Additionally I have also exchanged email with Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick. I have also played a perfect 350-point game of the original Colossal Cave Adventure.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I'm secure enough in my nerdliness to know that I simply AM the greatest geek on ILX and that I don't have to brag about it anymore.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

paper-tapes

We have a winner.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, you guys are nerds.

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I am the master of animated gif file-size optimization. I study distributed operating systems in school. I know all about Turing set reduction. I use terms like "Chomsky Normal Form" all the time. I have been employed as the chief UNIX sysadmin for a medium sized firm when I was 21 with no college degree. I met Ian Johnson through computer crime. I've built a red box. I used to hang out on voice bridges. I was using mp3s in 1994. I wrote games in Visual Basic for DOS with inline asm in 1993-1996. I have implemented an RSA cryptosystem from scratch in both Perl and Java. I was a .com-er for a while. I have a diskless machine on my network that runs off NFS. I have written buffer overflows. I have reimplemented nasty shellcode for BIND overflows. My stack is non executable. I was under (false) suspicion of hacking AOL in 1996, I have "owned" several local UNIX machines over dialup and certainly did so over the internet (statue of limitations is expired for anything I mentioned here). I have written my own UNIX shell. I know: Lisp, Scheme, Perl, Java, C, C++, C#, Prolog, bourne sh, BASIC, Visual Basic. I use vi. I have written a C-- to JVM compiler. I have implmented Virtual Memory/Paging, Synchronization primatives, several task scheduling models and countless other operating systemsish things. I cut my teeth on the Apple ][e before moving to a 386 in 1992 (?). I used to use BBSes for warez. I met Dave Fischer through computer nerdery. I cracked disk copy protection on Sid Meir's Pirates.

PS - Dave Fischer wins obviously.

― JAWN VILL-YUMZ (ex machina), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I started using Linux pre-2.0. And I have run Linux on SPARC. I have administered a bridiging firewall professionally. I have had complete reign over the web space for my university as well as the companies I worked for.

I am currently contemplating patching SNES9X so that you'll be able to define code regions that will cause the emulator's fast-forward mode to disable when they are entered (so I can use fast forward to speed up travel in RPGs but drop to normal speed for battles).

― still no googlers (ex machina), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian Johnson and I made noise using Linux, joysticks and C program I wrote.

― JAWN (ex machina), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't generally know what the hell I'm talking about, but last week I tried to explain the plot of the Search for Spock using the metaphor of a hard drive partion. And I frequently dream about discovering that I'm a cyborg.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really compare, but here are my stats:
I've had a computer im my house all my life. The first modem was for our commedore 64 when I was 5. I proggramed simple conversation programs on the commadore 64 at the same age. There were huge stacks of punch cards in my room for a while. I made a huge hypercard game when I was around 10. The first projected I used the internet for was my 4th grade project on korea (in 1991). I can program in C,C++,java, and I just built a MOSFET transistor from scratch using silicon micromachining technolgy in a clean room. It's got reall good IV characteristics too.

but really I'm not a dork at all compared to some of you losers

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I hacked AOL too. back when you only got like 4 free hours for joining.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've programed in assembly/ machine code.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't do Java script or anything like that, but everyone in my computer class asks for my help before they ask the teacher. Even the girl that types much faster than me.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And that's about it.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

doooooork

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the TRON special 2-disc edition DVD

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

so does roman coppola, apparently

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've listened to the commentary.

xpost

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I also have the Wargames DVD.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

People come up to me with questions because I've just about memorized all the short cuts for commands with the keyboard.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I changed Win2000 code with a hex editor, so the 'Start' button says 'Arse'.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucked Ms Pac-Man.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucked the original.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I posted a picture on my friend's, whatever we were working on, because she didn't know how to. Then I had to explain how I did it three times.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the shortcut for inserting a picture into a Microsoft word, Aja?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it just that button with an apple picture on it + v if you've already coppied it by apple + c?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

From memory:

Alt+I, P, F

omg legend. What do I win?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

MS Word-nerdom, AA.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

alt+f = file menu

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You win nothing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Alt+I is the Insert menu. You insert a picture from the Insert menu. Hence the name, 'Insert menu'.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely arguing over MS Word shortcuts puts us ahead of everyone else.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Naw, I know shit about computers other than MS Word shortcuts.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think schooling a fake 13 year old in MS Word shortcuts puts you ahead though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this thread. Its like watching competing bodybuilders on Venice beach, only in reverse.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying I'm a fake 13 year old Alex?

Then please tell me why I go to a Catholic school that has a Jewish computer teacher?

I'm going to Viriginia tomorrow, so I will miss computer class.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was pretty clear what I am saying Aja. As for your second question, I fail to see what your saying that you "go to a Catholic school that has a Jewish computer teacher" has to do with anything.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know?

It just makes me more of a "nerd."

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

So Jews make Gentiles seem nerdier in your view?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, at thirteen I wrote my first neural network... in hypercard. Wrote an OO one in C++ a year later, and a better OO one in Java after that, while you could only execute Java applets in the HotJava sun-built browser. Wrote the login validation system in my current job specifically to prevent forced session creation attacks, once in freshman year spent an hour to do a friend's prolog homework having never touched the language before. Did all the java programming at my previous job in notepad, and now use a customized mmm for emacs that does PHP/HTML display better than anything available on the net (coz it handles tabs correctly). Wrote some fancy flow-control style perl that correctly parsed complex natural languageish word files into tabular data.

Wrote a workflow development system in Tcl/Tk at age 15.

This is all relatively high-level stuff though, so doesn't even stack up to the geekery of hardware design or kernel/assembly level stuff -- though I did at sixteen design a calculator that did addition, subtraction, and multiplication using pure logic gates. I still can't balance the equations for basic electrical flow on circuits to save my life, and have bad luck every time I try to deal with the insides of a computer. The only computer games I play are solitare varients.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, if anyone's tried to reduce Montana to set theory, to "solve" for games, how'd it go?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a bit of an early geek/phreak, starting on the No. 608 Cord PBX when I was 14. In 1983 I think it was I got an Apple IIc and starting programming in Applesoft BASIC and doing games in assembly language, I created a program pretty much identical to what became "artificial intelligence". I was 19. When I found out later, I was *pissed*. I then was a happy end user on Macs and on Unix. I was a computer operator on a Data General Mainframe, and handled the bigola backup tapes in 1986-7. I then drifted into seat of my pants end user oblivion and occassional webmastering/html.

My non-computer friends think I'm a computer nerd, which makes me laugh. Just because I know how to set up a router does not mean I'm a geek. I was a pretty good proto-geek in my teen years though, when not many girls were into computers, in the early 80s.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/redhalcyon/freecell.txt

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, that is fucking impressive.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Leee ♥ solitaire.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My RAID is bigger thn your RAID

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah? Well mine's striped. Beat that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah? Wll My RAID could beat up your RAID and Mr T with its Fibre Channel tied behind it's back.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not going to enter the competition though, I've always been a Power User Rather than a Nerd, despite my bets efforts.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

> I can program in C, C++, Java, C#, Basic, Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, and COBOL, and can form structural procedures in SQL, PL/SQL, and Logo.

> I've programmed heavily in BASIC, Fortran, Pascal, Lisp, SCHEME, C, C++, Java, and Objective-C.

> I know: Lisp, Scheme, Perl, Java, C, C++, C#, Prolog, bourne sh, BASIC, Visual Basic.

all very impressive (although wouldn't visual basic lose you points? as does using notepad as an editor!) but *real* programmers use assembly language. i didn't write my first game until i was 14 because i had to wait for clive sinclair to invent computers 8) i did my final year project in z80 and can still remember large chunks of it from all those years of hand assembling things on my zx81 (201=ret, 205=call, 195=jmp, er, 0=nop...). i have code in fedora core 1 and mandrake 10.

most of the above is blather to disguise the fact that i still don't quite get object oriented programming 8)

(actually, i'm kinda impressed by (some of) the leet skillz above and wonder what we'd be able to accomplish if we put our minds to it (and didn't waste so much time here))

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 13 May 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the nerdiest thing I ever did was writing a side scroller for the ZX81 in machine code that could be typed in to a rem statement using typable characters, memorising the bizarre string of characters (something like A(+8[that battenberg graphic]0:* etc) and typing it in on the machines in WHSmith along with the BASIC program that invoked it to make a Scramble-like demo game.
who on earth did I think would be impressed by this? at the time I mean. Obviously you lot think i'm a fucking god or something now, but at the time it was mentalism nerdiness

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

damn i wish I'd actually finished that "anecdote" with "I was 28 at the time" ho ho. obv this was before the spectrum came out

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes, i fucked the shit out of a floppy disk when i was 12. I win.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

IF WE'RE SO GEEKY WHY HAVEN'T WE TAKEN OVER THE WORLD?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

D, U, L, L, A, R, D.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read Microserfs about 6 times and can remember where all the hams are in Atic Atac.

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem has just updated the internet so i think he wins!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I subscribed to 'INPUT'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

> i think the nerdiest thing I ever did was writing a side scroller for the ZX81 in machine code

sounds like a dinnertime challenge...

ld hl, #START_OF_SCREEN + 1 ; START_OF_SCREEN was held in one
ld de, #START_OF_SCREEN ; of the system variables. i forget.
ld b, #HEIGHT_OF_SCREEN ; 24? can't remember
next_line:
push bc
ldi ; copies from (de) to (hl)
ldi ; copies from (de) to (hl)
ldi ; copies from (de) to (hl)
... (28 more ldis here, 31 in total) ; this is faster than ldir
ld a, #SPACE
ld (de), a ; put a space in last column of line
inc de
inc hl
pop bc
djnz next_line
ret

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

haha oh yeah in my jr year of high school i was jealous of the advanced symbolic integration functions in the new TI-92 that came out so I wrote an RPL program for my HP48 that duplicated most of them.

it was hella slow though.

on the other hand, tail recursion where the program copies *itself* on the stack has its own coolness.

like i said, high level.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

my first real c++ program also did symbolic integration i recall.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I own a computer geek action figure. He comes with accessories too! A coffee mug! A pair of glasses! A notebook that opens and closes! A wristwatch! A PDA that attaches to his hip with magnets! It's awesome!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

re scroller code: you should use LDDR obv, but the key was rejigging some code and doing it non-obviously so that the ascii equivalent of all the code was typeable - which meant largely top-bit set commands were unusable. oh yes

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

10 PRINT "Ste is ace ";
15 INK RND*7
20 GO TO 10

RUN

Ste is ace Ste is ace Ste is ace
Ste is ace Ste is ace Ste is ac
e Ste is ace Ste is ace Ste is a
ce Ste is ace Ste is ace Ste is
ace Ste is ace Ste is ace Ste is
...
scroll?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

aw it fooked up a 'space'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

LDIR! LDDR would be to scroll right.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ilx geeks, make us games to play! (Alan already has, they are good, I want more though).

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i have?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but multiple ldi's are faster than the equivalent ldir because it's not doing the decrement and checking of bc every loop - the same way the -funroll-loops compiler optimisation flag works. (ok, this is pretty moot when you're talking about <1k even on a 3.5MHz Z80A processor (spectrum had a Z80H in it - 8MHz)).

Jetpac on the spectrum used to have hundreds of ldi commands in its double buffer code when one ldir would've done the trick - used to drive me potty having to step through them in the monitor i was using at the time (this was before i discovered breakpoints).

> which meant largely top-bit set commands were unusable
no, i think you'd be ok - all the characters above 128 were graphics characters, inverse-video versions or keywords, all of which were fine:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sinclair.zx81/appxa.html

i seem to remember there being a problem with typing digits into REM statements as they had their floating point representation invisibly appended to them. and having to fiddle with the cursor mode in order to type others.

why do i still remember all this junk?

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

alright not top bit set, but like chars 67-127, and like you say speed is no good on that scale, and to make it typeable ldi x 31 times is 31 [GOSUB][inverse-video "4"s], 62 BYTES! urk, mode changes each time. come on!
yeah the number thing was crazy, but in a REM statement I don't think the floating point thing would ever be invoked, would it?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You people are just darling.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i guess minimising the typing is more important than saving a couple of clockticks every loop in this case, especially with dixon's staff breathing down your sweaty, adolescent neck 8)

good point too about the numbers thing, will investigate. oh look: http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/ts1000/ online zx81 emulator... lets make it repeatedly print 'andy is skill'...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy otm.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally not playing this one because the minute I start talking about my BS in Computer Engineering and all the shit I've written in assembly, C++, etc. (including.... LISP!) and all the Cognitive Science stuff I've done, somebody who knows me will point out that I've got a BA in Theatre and accuse me of just acting like a nerd.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i have?

Hang on, Alan, are you not magical text adventure guy?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

blimey, yes, but I never finished wtiting any games - i do keep on about them and have undoubtedly linked to some superb games by other people.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

(whose idea was it to have 5 symbols on each zx81 key?)

alan, i've tried it (for f = 0 to 22; print peek (16509+f); next f) and you're right about digits in REM statements.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

this clearly needs to be in the ILX FAQ! ;-)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now in total awe of Alan.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

your all f-ing amateurs compared to Keven Warwick, Prof of Cybernetics
at University of Reading, he has had computer implants - a cyborg
http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/people/K.Warwick.htm

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus.

Can I retract my bid?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Warwick is a dick.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I have self-consciously avoided most computer nerdery. However, I have played Wumpus.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone have hypercard? I can give you the game I made.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I made (three) Hypercard games!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Warwick is scary. What's the point of his implants - do they actually serve a function, or is it just "ooh, lookie I'm Data!"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 14 May 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

> Ilx geeks, make us games to play!

remembered this this morning. it's Tilefall, an old Palm Pilot game, rewritten in dhtml. click on groups of blocks the same colour and they'll disappear earning you points ((n-2)^2 points to be exact where n is the number of blocks in that group). Internet Explorer only at the mo, sorry.

when you're bored of that there's always http://www.bigredswitch.co.uk/games/mm/
(which is damn impressive but nothing to do with me)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

10011010
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11101010
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― mei (mei), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

we haven't covered warwick in the FT science blog, possibly cos he's too easy a target (hem hem). the guardian bad science did him not long ago, and he's practically a feature on NTK

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

> Internet Explorer only at the mo, sorry.

updated to now also work with mozilla firefox etc. have also made the colours nicer. (it's a slow day at work).

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am getting Z80 assembly nostalgia :-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

But...who is the WORST computer nerd on ilx?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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