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Project scrapped.
« on: March 12, 2009, 05:40:59 pm »
fucking calculator. was working on it last night, testing graphics, when i noticed that I started getting "Error: Memory" with 12k free space available. I chose "Goto" on the error menu, and the screen flipped out and gave me a BSOD. Pulled the batteries, stuck them in, and nothing happened. Left them out for a while, put them back in and turned the device on, and it says "Waiting for Operating System"

sigh, hook it up to the PC and put the OS back on there, and what happens? It flips out again, turns itself off. Turn it back on, it says "Ram Cleared". I go to ungroup my last backup, and there's nothing there. "Surely this cant be right." i say, hook the device to the computer, and open device explorer, check, and see absolutely nothing. sigh, throw the calculator into the closet, get a beer, and just play wow and stuff.

fucking calculator ate the project, and not once did I back up to the computer because I figured this'd never happen.

WORD OF ADVICE:

xLIB is really, really, fucking strange to work with, and is hazardous. use at your own risk.



on the plus side though, this frees up time for me to start studying a PC language. I'm thinking Perl or Java.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 05:41:44 pm »
Quote from: Drak on March 12, 2009, 05:40:59 pm
fucking calculator. was working on it last night, testing graphics, when i noticed that I started getting "Error: Memory" with 12k free space available. I chose "Goto" on the error menu, and the screen flipped out and gave me a BSOD. Pulled the batteries, stuck them in, and nothing happened. Left them out for a while, put them back in and turned the device on, and it says "Waiting for Operating System"

sigh, hook it up to the PC and put the OS back on there, and what happens? It flips out again, turns itself off. Turn it back on, it says "Ram Cleared". I go to ungroup my last backup, and there's nothing there. "Surely this cant be right." i say, hook the device to the computer, and open device explorer, check, and see absolutely nothing. sigh, throw the calculator into the closet, get a beer, and just play wow and stuff.

fucking calculator ate the project, and not once did I back up to the computer because I figured this'd never happen.

WORD OF ADVICE:

xLIB is really, really, fucking strange to work with, and is hazardous. use at your own risk.



on the plus side though, this frees up time for me to start studying a PC language. I'm thinking Perl or Java.


and FYI, that's fucking 2.5 months of work down the shitter because of this. I'm just going to call it a fucking fail, and move on.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 06:05:58 pm »
Sorry to hear that happen. I usually have back-ups from whenever I take a screenie.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 08:27:44 pm »
I'm sorry to hear that.  Do you know what xLIB command it was that threw the error?
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 10:40:58 pm »
This fucking sucks, I hate when this happens. This is like Illusiat 2002 project, 2 months of hard work and one day nothing anymore. I personally got some problems with xLIB when working on Metroid, you must back up often else if you do one thing wrong it crashes. Zapi and Codex can also crash, since I got this happen with ROL3 and Zelda. I hope you get back interest at one point, though, I'll leave this forum up for the rest of the weekend in case you would change your mind. THis sucks this happened, it was looking so good
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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2009, 12:03:43 am »
Sucks about your project.

Perl.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2009, 12:06:26 am »
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I'm thinking Perl or Java.
If it has to be one of those, I'd recommend Perl, seeing as how the other option is Java.  But you should really look into Python :)
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 12:13:47 am »
Perl is twice the language python can ever hope to be.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2009, 12:15:53 am »
Does these languages requires the created software users to install additional stuff on their computer besides it to run such languages? I know for example Java requires JRE and VB requires .net framework or something
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2009, 12:22:26 am »
For both Python and Perl you need an interpreter on the computer.  I know that for most Linux kernels Python comes standard, and my mom's MacBook came with the interpreter on it as well (not sure if all do though).
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 02:08:41 am »
x.x I hate when a project I'm working on gets deleted.

This happened to me when I was working on Checkers:AI. I was messing around trying to hook up a dc adapter to my calc so i didn't have to use batteries and... well lets just say the idea didn't work and neither did the calculator after the experiment. I had to get a new calc (luckily the dead calc was covered under warranty [haha, they'll never know the true cause of failure...]), so all my data was gone forever... sort of. A few days later I found a copy of the program on the computer, and thus I was able to continue and finish programming. Had I not found the mysterious copy, I don't think I would have continued the project.
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 01:09:16 pm »
This always happens to everyone at least once, sorry to hear but we all repeat ourselves saying back up your data! sorry..
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« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2009, 04:24:01 pm »
Aw, i'm sorry man. Hate when things like this happen. =(
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2009, 10:38:20 pm »
sorry to hear man
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Re: Project scrapped.
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2009, 01:37:31 pm »
looking over notes i kept on the project, i might pick it up at a later date. i dont know. probably.
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