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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 28, 2001
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Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Aug 30, 2001
Looks like I am some kind of an outsider.
Many years ago I was a OS/370 (IBM mainframe) systems programmer.
Languages: OS/370 assembler, Netview clist language, REXX.
On RS6000 some unix, rexx and perl
Marijn, U178834
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 30, 2001
Welcome Marijn, I like your title
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MaW Posted Aug 30, 2001
I'd like to sign up! Iaoth pointed me in this direction, as I'd not heard of it before...
Okay, my areas of knowledge are mainly in C++, Delphi 3, Java and PHP. I also know some Haskell, Perl and Tcl/Tk, plus a few other things I've only dabbled in. I've a bit of knowledge of the Microsoft Foundation Classes 
through work, I know a fair bit about using SQL databases (especially MySQL) through PHP, and I also know about the GTK-- GUI toolkit (which is so much nicer than MFC, and it runs on a decent OS too).
And I'm a Computer Science student, so I'm learning more all the time!
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MaW Posted Aug 30, 2001
Oh yes, I forgot to mention - most of my programming is on GNU/Linux. C++ and Delphi on Windows (C++ on Linux as well, much nicer 
).
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 1, 2001
I'd like to sign up to. I'm a bit of a dabbler, so I've not got an in depth experience of programming. Hopefully this will change this year as I go into my final year of my Computer Science degree.
OS Platforms: Lots of experience with Amiga Workbench 1.3-3.5 (either real Amigas or WinUAE). Some experience with Win 95/98/Me.
Languages: Blitz Basic (Amiga and PC versions), Java/J++, some C++
Other things: Basic experience of HTML and Flash. Experienced with Dpaint and PPaint (Amiga), and to a lesser extent with PShopPro (PC)and Photoshop (Mac as I can't get the Windoze version to run 
).
Specialty: Getting Amigas online (like this one I'm using at the moment 
)
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 1, 2001
Welcome MaW and Croz, Added both of you
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 1, 2001
Uhoh, I'm not Jewish 
.
Don't know much about numerology, does that help
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 1, 2001
Croz, what do you use as a browser with the Amigas? I've got half a dozen A1200s lying around the house, and a couple of PCMCIA network cards - I was considering setting one up in the living room on the network so guests can browse on the TV...
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 1, 2001
I use IBrowse 1.x and IBrowse 2.2. The newer version has some nifty features like spoofing (makes certain sites that demand Netscape or Explorer think that IBrowse is actually a Mozilla clone), and some javascript support. Only grumble with it really is that it uses MUI, which although gives it a nice interface, it eats memory a lot. With this in mind, extra RAM and a hard disk are probably the minimum requirements (PowerPC accelerator, RTG graphics card and loads of RAM recommended, although I've not even got this myself ).
Other people use Voyager or Aweb, both of which have their positive and negative points. I've not actually used them, but as far as I can remember the demos are on Aminet.
Another thing, amiga web browsers are shareware, and so are the TCP/IP stacks to get the amiga itself connected to the Internet or LAN. These can also be picked up off the aminet.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 1, 2001
I've got a freeware TCP/IP stack I got off an Amiga User coverdisk... I'll probably have more "fun" trying to find a driver for the network card...
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 1, 2001
Just had a look at one of the TCP/IP stack clients I use (Miami) and if the card is SANA-II compatible (which it should be) then all you need is the hardware address of your network server and it's all systems go. No extra drivers required or anything
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 1, 2001
Sounds good! Thanks! 
It's just another of those "little projects" I'll keep back till a cold Winter's night. It'll take a while to go through the box of 2.5" HDDs to find out which ones work...
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 2, 2001
Hi Croz,
If you want I'll take number 13 because I'm jewish, and I'll give you number 1
BTW, This kind of conversation is what the corner is for, but not this thread, so please open a new thread for these kinds of questions, it'll make it easier for others to bug in on the conversation and easier for me to follow signing up of new people
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 2, 2001
I'm fine with being 13, thanks for the offer to change it though.
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NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted Sep 4, 2001
Twinkle
QBasic and a bit of Visual Basic...
A bit of Javascript, mostly tweaking.
Let's see... Um, I did Logo and Apple Basic in third grade... does that count?
I do some HTML, but not much, mostly due to lack of actual content... (see my space for example of what I mean)
I got a Visual C++ tutorial thingy at the bookstore, hoping to learn something useful from it, but it's way too technical for me at this point.
So, I've currently decided to work on Java, but haven't actually learned anything yet... I might actually have to take a class on it! (All of my other programming languages have been self taught, mostly by tweaking programs until I understood what they did, then just playing arund with new stuff.)
I tried to figure out Linux, but accidentally wiped out my mom's hard drive in the process of installing it 
and that kind of scared me away from it, so I'm sticking with Window$ for now.
Still, not bad for a 14 year old, huh?
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 4, 2001
Hi Twinkle,
Welcome, nice to see you here. If you want there are links to 2 great books (one on Java and one on C++) you can download for free
It'll be helpful if you look at the "format" we introduce ourselves and write what you want to be there.
It is berry flexible and you can even say you want it the way you posted it already, or if you want I'll compile something from the post you already made.
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lw - ck Posted Sep 4, 2001
Wow, hi twinkle im CK, "Corners Kid" the youngest being 13, all the stuff pretty impressive for a 14 year old whatever you say, Go to the conversation with the subject CK or just vist http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U182647
CK
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- 41: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 28, 2001)
- 42: Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking (Aug 30, 2001)
- 43: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 30, 2001)
- 44: MaW (Aug 30, 2001)
- 45: MaW (Aug 30, 2001)
- 46: Zak T Duck (Sep 1, 2001)
- 47: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 1, 2001)
- 48: Zak T Duck (Sep 1, 2001)
- 49: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 1, 2001)
- 50: Zak T Duck (Sep 1, 2001)
- 51: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 1, 2001)
- 52: Zak T Duck (Sep 1, 2001)
- 53: Zak T Duck (Sep 1, 2001)
- 54: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 1, 2001)
- 55: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 2, 2001)
- 56: Zak T Duck (Sep 2, 2001)
- 57: lw - ck (Sep 2, 2001)
- 58: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (Sep 4, 2001)
- 59: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 4, 2001)
- 60: lw - ck (Sep 4, 2001)
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