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I bought a laptop in January. It worked fine through August, at which point it began bluescreening in a way that suggested CPU failure. HP took three weeks to turn it around, and in spite of the fact that I sent them a 100% reproducible crash, they DID NOT FIX IT--I verified this with 5 minutes of...
A template specialization of IUnknown::QueryInterface, more or less as follows: template <typename Q>HRESULT IUnknown::QueryInterface(Q **); No more frickin' reinterpret_casts, and IntelliSense functions. I discovered this just now in VC++ Express 2010, when Intellisense offered me that...
Anyone going to take one more trip to the well? I downloaded the demo via Steam last night and it kept me up an hour later than I normally go to bed (because of the 100-turn limit...) It's interesting, and continues the trend since Civ IV of not drowning you in micromanagement. I kinda liked...
The D3D sample code in the SDK (not the samples themselves, but what's in the SDK docs) mostly render in WM_PAINT. I spotted one example that moves it to the message pump. Ron, what do you do? I'm interested in the perspective of the type of game where you need to try to pump out as many FPS...
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/784607--do-yourself-a-favour-don-t-read-this-book I'm distinctly in the bitterness phase, perhaps slowly moving into the acceptance phase. Not that I should be one to complain about missed deadlines or anything, I suppose :) SR Donaldson...
Hey it has been a mighty long time since I last showed my face on the forums been popping onto the website from time to time to see whats going on. Just thought I would say hello express interest in whats going on. Do you have an IRC channel where it would be possible to talk in real time? Kind...
Let's say I wanted to write some kind of Final Fantasy-type game for windows, and let's say, for starters, that I was using GDI, not DirectX (Not sure if this would matter.) Also, I'm talking about the older games. In those, you'd see the people doing little in-place animations, like walking...
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/162c0062-b512-45bd-80a2-dfd3321e4eee (I am Rick C)
The curiously recurring template pattern is the bees' knees.
I was trying something just now. If you type "rjcyberware" in Google, the autosuggest offers "rjcyberware.com ddo".
struct B1 { int i; funcb1() { i = ...; } }; struct B2 { funcb2() { ... }
Probably an easy one. Class CConnectionPointContainer has the following code: CConnectionPoint *Points; // private member Points = (CConnectionPoint *)CoTaskMemAlloc(10 * sizeof(LPCONNECTIONPOINT)); // in ctor A method in CConnectionPointContainer does this: Points = new...
I warn you guys, development may slow a bit in about a month, when this game arrives on the shelves. GD is one of my favorite bands, and I imagine I will be playing this for a while in the evenings when I might otherwise be coding :)
Let's say I have a heirarchy of classes, CGramps, CDad, CSon. CSon has a few methods. CDad has those methods as well, as well as some additional ones, and the same situation applies to CGramps. In other words, your standard inheritence model. We're also describing a heirarchy of COM...
The disc I bought had Civ4 1.61 on it; Firaxis has a 1.74 patch. I tried installing it, and it blew up around 99%, saying it couldn't find a source for Civ 4. (?) Then InstallShield said the installation completed successfully, by which I can only assume that it successfully completed executing....
I had a nice 7-AI game of Civ III going this weekend, generous world settings on a normal or large map, I forget which, on Chieftain. I had a good empire going, and was one of the techier civs. Then I attacked Japan, and all hell broke loose. First off, I mis-remembered the Infantry as a...
Happy Birthday Ron To think all this time I thought you were younger than me :). Hope you get all your wishes today.
What's up everyone? My name is Adam. I'm from Seattle. I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hi.. I hope I posted this in the right section.
I just want to wish everyone Happy Holidays! MAy all your wishes come true and may you each prosper in the New Year! Warmest Wishes, Valoir
Hello there... Just dropping by to say hi. Ron, I posted a reply in the Dungeon Crawl overview, but it didn't pop up, I don't know if it's moderated or something... Since I typed a lot and don't want to eventually lose that, I'm gonna paste it here.
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