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« on: February 27, 2012, 09:33:32 pm »
They better lol. We've only had it six months, but we got the three year warantee.
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« on: February 27, 2012, 04:34:40 pm »
This is one of my favorite images I've ever found. It's also my desktop background right now.
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« on: February 26, 2012, 08:20:15 pm »
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking it was. I just restored factory settings again and removed all the junk that comes with that. If this happens again, though, I'm definitely taking it back and getting a good one for my parents.
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« on: February 26, 2012, 05:57:41 pm »
Graphics drivers all up to date?
Have you tried googling the problem along with the model of your laptop to see if anybody else has the same issues and if they have fixes for it?
Yeah, their computer is brand new (well, four months old, but still). It was working fine literally two hours ago. I tried googling everything the last time this happened and no one else seemed to have the same problem.
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« on: February 26, 2012, 04:57:51 pm »
Yeah, I already uninstalled it all.
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« on: February 26, 2012, 04:49:40 pm »
It can load in Safe Mode, but she hasn't installed anything. It ran fine for about a month after I reset it the first time. The only thing my mom has done recently is browse the web and listen to music on Pandora.
EDIT: I removed all of the standard applications after I reset it to factory settings.
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« on: February 26, 2012, 04:42:26 pm »
My parents' old computer got pretty old, and the power supply went bad so we got them a new computer. It's an HP Pavillion Slimline with Windows 7 64-bit. They were using it with no problems for a while, then one day it wouldn't load correctly. It started up normally and loaded the profile and everything, but right when the desktop was supposed to load the screen went black and nothing happened at all. Ctrl+Alt+Del was also unresponsive. You could, however, still see the mouse and move it around. We took it down to Staples and the people there weren't much help. The only other thing I could think of was to completely reset the computer to factory settings. I did that after I transferred all necessary files to my USB drive in Safe Mode (which oddly enough worked), and the computer worked.
However, this same situation is happening again. This is complete crap. I am not going to reset the computer again because this shouldn't be happening. Can anyone think of what would be happening? If there's no direct reason, I'm just going to have them take the computer back.
P.S. - My mom has a habit of leaving their computer on over-night; could that be it (something to do with the power supply again)?
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« on: February 25, 2012, 10:58:21 pm »
I use 1.1.2 on my calculator, but 0.5.3b on Wabbit because it doesn't like above that version with BootFree ROMs and I've been to lazy to make another ROM from my calculator.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 12:46:40 pm »
Personally I wasn't surprised when I saw it. That's exactly the way I would've done something like that. In fact, it is the way I do things. For animations I just use a bunch of sprites and loop them together based on the game's time. Plus I'd imagine that's the fastest way to do that kind of thing, especially with shading and in large games like Crysis. I always love finding out how things that seem complex are actually really simple. It all comes down to whether or not you're over-thinking something or not.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 12:03:33 pm »
My experience:
90% of programming is saying "calculate x+24c+6-f*2(55y)" and stuff. Not a joke.
Yes games also have a lot of complex math, but even games like Crysis have simple math in them. I still dont get how you can make games with coding after getting a little taste of coding language python 
Eck, this question sure is vague...
A nice analogy might be "I still don't understand how they predict the weather after using an iPhone app."
^ This. One does not simply know all the programming after a "little taste."
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« on: February 25, 2012, 11:58:29 am »
I'm going to go with aeTIos on this and say read a Python tutorial. A lot of games do basic math and updating, which are covered in tutorials.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 11:56:59 am »
I know what you meant lol. Do you store the information to some kind of buffer? I think that would be easier if you plan on doing loops, but then again I'm not the one taking the course lol.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 11:36:23 am »
Do you compile to some byte-code then interpret that, or do you interpret the source directly? ...I am creating an interpreted programming language in C++...
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« on: February 25, 2012, 11:29:51 am »
Did you watch the video? To do what you asked, you would just update everything that needs to be updated when your update method is called. Here's some pseudocode to demonstrate what I mean:
update:
move ball based on travelling direction
if ball collides with wall or paddle
method to make ball bounce off of surface
if ball has passed some paddle
add point to winner
reset ball location
if user presses a key we will use (i.e. Up, Down, W or S)
update player's paddle location
update AI
draw:
clear background
draw scores
draw walls
draw ball
Basically after each draw method is done, the update method will be called, and when each update method is done the draw method will be called.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 11:07:43 am »
All games come down to the basic game life cycle. I recommend watching this video. Though it's for XNA (.NET) and not Python, it gives a pretty detailed overview and explanation of the life cycle.
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