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That would be no problem, but a piece of graph paper and a pencil also work fine.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Except to zoom out the graph paper you have to move across the room... 
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Not really. The the graphics chip displayed a constant horizontal resolution of 64 pixels (8 bytes) and 128 lines.
AT 64 x 128 the pixels are about four times wider than high and the video buffer took 1k. I think I have only one program that actually used this mode.
Fortunately you couls just repeat the same line twice, reducing the resolution to 64 x 64 and the video buffer to 1/2k. That also reduced the aspect ratio of the pixels to 2, which was far more usable.
The mostly used resolution of 64 x 32 was reached by repeating each line four times. The pixels were square, but huge. The video buffer was only 1/4k. This[^] was the test program I entered with the hex keyboard right after soldering together my computer. The image comes from an emulator, of course. The basic computer had only 1/4k memory, so the 'garbage' at the top is the program and the stack.
Anyway, drawing entire screens on graph paper was not really hard.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That one I recognise!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You just gave me an idea. Why not steal the image from the old test program and use it in the title screen of the game?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Stewart Judson wrote: Hex strings?
Again with the Harry Potter?
Never knew he took on the klingons though... tribblesortia
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Great. This way it even looks very much what it looks like on the old computer. A line of the 'Klingon' is missing and it's glued together with the 'Romulan', but it's becoming more recognizable.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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This comes very close to the old computer now. I have added one line to the 'Klingon' at the top which should make it look better. The 'Romulan' is flat like a pancake. Like Griff already said, this one is harder to get right.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: hexadecimal notation and logical operators have to do with 'real world programs'.
None whatsoever, unless you're from Mordor 
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Ok.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'm looking at some 3rd party documentation and trying to figure out what their database platform is (I'm guessing the doc I'm looking at is some kind of Apache/Maven type affair but I'm pretty much a 100% SQLServer guy so I'm not at all sure).
The doc looks like:
Archetype
[List of links to various entities]
1. EntityName
1.1 Additional Information
1.2 Archetype Properties
[Two column table - Archetype Property and Value]
1.3 Archetype Definitions (Attributes)
[Eight column table - AttributeId, Caption, Data Type, Access Type, Default Value, Supports FTS, Multiline, Notes Multiline? That sounds like a non-stop source of pleasure!]
1.4 Query/Quick Find/Sort Definition
No Query/Quick Find/Sort Information is defined
1.5 Indexes
No Indexes are defined (that's always promising!)
etc., etc.
Data types mentioned include RELATIONSHIP (please God, be a real life foreign key), DATE, BOOLEAN, STRING(n), NARRATIVE, MONEY, DECIMAL(n,n), GUID, DATETIME and AUTONUMBER (when I Googled AUTONUMBER, I just got loads of results for Access but thankfully, it doesn't seem to be that!)
Does anyone recognise the doc format or have any idea what the underlying database might be?
Thanks.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Harry Potter?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Harry Potter?
I was thinking more of Sooty - Izzy Wizzy, Let's Get Busy!
Why can't people just use SQLServer (or Oracle or MySql at a push)? How many times does the RDBMS wheel need to get reinvented?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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OpenEHR?
Or just Google[^]
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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The doc generator certainly seems to have been inspired by that - the doc is definitely something that's been created by a tool that's been pointed at a database rather than a design that a database has been built from.
Was just kind of hoping that someone would see it and go "Ah! That looks like what you get when you point Auto-Documenter X at DB Engine Y."
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: Every dragon has its secrets. And I'll show them all to you! We'll unlock every mystery, find every last species together, as mother and son!
Which movie?
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One night in ... no, no. I'm not going there...
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Not 'Debbie does Berk'? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Toothless! Toothless! No! NOOOO! Down boy! Bad boy..." 
I am soooo not watching that episode.
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Dragon does Prank..
or
Prank plays dragon, may be 
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St. Georgina and the Dragon?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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