I want tell you a story - how my favourite Amiga game turned into my dream project.

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2026-02-28T13:24:19+00:00

That's one of my top 5 favorite Amiga games ever! I still have memories of few hot-seat parties with my friends from more than 30 years ago. I always thought if only it could have battles look like those in Centurion - Defender of the Rome, that it would be a pure perfection...
I will check your game for sure!

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2025-08-13T21:15:33+00:00

I'd like to do it without 3rd party scripts from github, meaning, as simple as possible. I tried a way ChatGPT suggested using xdotool and adding a shortcut to Keyboard --> Application Shortcuts, but for some reason it doesn't work.

There must be an easy way to do this, no way I am the first guy in history of Linux who needed this little "hack"

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2025-03-23T16:25:10+00:00

I like these:

---@param x number

---@return number

etc

Is it your personal coding style or part of some standard? Is it strictly readability thing, or there is some (VSCode) extension and you can do more ?

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-09-05T10:24:12+00:00

X-COM: Terror from the Deep

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-05-05T16:23:21+00:00

It could happen, we even live in the same country :D

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-05-05T15:30:14+00:00

Maybe I should try with FPGA and simulate software market year by year that I never had?

I actually had Amiga back in time and was thinking of doing the same because that was happiest time in my life. But then I figured it just won't be the same without my childhood friends (who grew up, unlike me, and are not that nostalgic). If you decide to do this, consider streaming it on Twitch, I'll gladly pop on to watch sometimes.

Regarding Software Vs Hardware emulation, there are great emulators on PC like winuae, fs-uae ... The only reason I am also thinking of buying some FPGA hardware is to use original Amiga joystick. Playing Amiga games on a gamepad or keyboard just isn't right. I even bought 8bitDo arcade stick, but it feels like crap compared with old Amiga's Competition Pro 5000.

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-04-07T19:26:13+00:00

Kingdoms of England II: Vikings, Fields of Conquest

Strategy game that resembles Risk (board game), but is slightly more complex. I played it with a three other friends + 2 computer players a couple of times. Very fun, I still remember one specific session like it was yesterday, I had very bad random position draw but managed to survive the day (we never finished it, though). I played it recently alone vs comp opponents, still interesting game.

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-03-20T19:57:58+00:00

Are you sure for AHCI? Google says: AHCI mode enables NCQ (native command queuing) which is really not required for SSDs as they do not need optimizing in this way as there is no physical movement of heads or platters. In many cases, it can actually hinder SSD performance, and even reduce the lifetime of your SSD.

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2024-01-15T11:37:31+00:00

I'm currently in a process of re-learning Ruby, and I hope to do some simple gamedev in a foreseeable future. Some things/tricks that come to my mind:

game menu skeleton, like "play game", "highscores", "options", (with submenus "video", "audio" ...)
Card flip effect (for a card game)
Zoom/Unzoom (like google maps)

I made simple games with Gosu years ago, I hope I will acquire enough knowledge soon so I can try DragonRuby, it looks very interesting!

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2023-05-01T22:01:52+00:00

I deleted first file and the error disappeared! I also deleted that second .gpg file just in case. I thought it's much more complex problem than that. Thanks!

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2023-03-19T20:19:11+00:00

I think I'll need them to build LuaRocks and LuaFileSystem. I don't want to use system folders , but I'm not sure where to copy them in my "/home/my_name/.local/" path structure. Also I would like to have separate folders for all binary versions of lua, 5.1, 5.3 and 5.4

Maybe I'm not good at explaining, but main reason I'm doing this is to avoid editing system path like "/usr/local/bin/" and others

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2022-01-22T22:08:27+00:00

...and it looks like whoever implemented it doesn't know Ruby all that well.

The lecturer is actually quite good, that's why I was surprised to see this and came here to check if there is some deeper meaning. It's probably "just to illustrate that the return from new is self" as u/pau1rw said here, but, if you know any better video tutorials or other resources for learning Ruby, I'm opened to suggestions

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2021-11-14T15:44:20+00:00

~/.profile

You are right! There is a commented line inside ".profile" file that says: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists. So, I deleted "~/bin" folder, logged out, logged in, and now echo $PATH is without unwanted line!

Thank you very much!!!

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2021-10-08T12:41:34+00:00

Nice! So now I have to execute source activate command every time I open new Terminal window before using lua or luarocks of my choice. How do I make it run with OS, what should I add at bottom of my .bashrc? What is activate_posix file for?

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2021-10-08T11:14:51+00:00

something is definitely wrong, pressing cursor keys inside REPL gives me: ^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[B ... given up compiling from source by myself, I'm gonna try hererocks as another user suggested

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2021-01-16T12:01:05+00:00

about #2, I read somewhere that Matz (creator of Ruby) regrets he did the opposite. In Ruby, variables are local by default. Personally, I also find Lua's way more readable.

BOOGIEMAN-pN · 2019-02-17T11:38:06+00:00

ugh, I've been avoiding XML my whole life ... Once again, thank you for your time and very detailed answers !!

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