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What was your experience level before you started this? I'm about to graduate with a degree in computer science and I would love to work on a long term project

What was your experience level before you started this? I'm about to graduate with a degree in computer science and I would love to work on a long term project like this but I feel like I could never accomplish something remotely close to the complexity involved in your project, especially without outside help like the internet.

percept 12y ago
Reminds me of the story recently about the guy who built a game over what, ten years or so? (Can't find a link right now.)
- reefab 12y ago
  "Babylonian twins"? Made by a Iraqi starting in the 90s. http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.php http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.p...
- abbeyj 12y ago
  Tobias and the Dark Sceptres? http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk/ http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk/
- Lrigikithumer 12y ago
  Dwarf Fortress? Who's development is ongoing?
- percept 12y ago
  Ha, no IIRC he began in college in the 90's, developing for the Windows platform, and finished it many years later, and his post documented its evolution and had the same sort of feel of working with outdated technologies, but seeing it through to the end.
shalmanese 12y ago
Note: I am not the person in the imgur. The title was changed after I submitted to one that is, IMHO, much more confusing. (original title was "An Australian, isolated from 1999-2006 with a 486. Built his own late 80s OS").
orangecomputer 12y ago
My experience level with computers was minimal; I had basic knowledge of running games from the DOS prompt or a particular type of DOS Shell that my dad had set up on our home computer. Other than that, I had no knowledge. I didn't know anything about processor power, RAM, etc. I'm not sure if it's used for anything anymore, but QBASIC is, I believe, freely available on Microsofts legacy FTP. It's a very safe and easy to use environment to learn about putting together some basic programs (hence the name BASIC?). If you learned to say, build a calculator in QBASIC, it wouldn't be hard to take that programming knowledge and move it across to a modern language like C.

percept 12y ago

Reminds me of the story recently about the guy who built a game over what, ten years or so? (Can't find a link right now.)

reefab 12y ago
"Babylonian twins"? Made by a Iraqi starting in the 90s. http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.php http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.p...
abbeyj 12y ago
Tobias and the Dark Sceptres? http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk/ http://www.tobiasgame.co.uk/
Lrigikithumer 12y ago
Dwarf Fortress? Who's development is ongoing?
percept 12y ago
Ha, no IIRC he began in college in the 90's, developing for the Windows platform, and finished it many years later, and his post documented its evolution and had the same sort of feel of working with outdated technologies, but seeing it through to the end.

shalmanese 12y ago

Note: I am not the person in the imgur. The title was changed after I submitted to one that is, IMHO, much more confusing. (original title was "An Australian, isolated from 1999-2006 with a 486. Built his own late 80s OS").

orangecomputer 12y ago

My experience level with computers was minimal; I had basic knowledge of running games from the DOS prompt or a particular type of DOS Shell that my dad had set up on our home computer. Other than that, I had no knowledge. I didn't know anything about processor power, RAM, etc. I'm not sure if it's used for anything anymore, but QBASIC is, I believe, freely available on Microsofts legacy FTP. It's a very safe and easy to use environment to learn about putting together some basic programs (hence the name BASIC?). If you learned to say, build a calculator in QBASIC, it wouldn't be hard to take that programming knowledge and move it across to a modern language like C.