The Hero inside...

Videogames, what are they ?
I suppose the best answer is an illusion in which we found ourselves.

Inside a videogame we can became legendary entity with the same purposes we look for in our lives too. Think about the most common videogames : you must kill the enemy, help the reason you believe, and Survive. Probably we are escaping for a while from the sadness of the current times, so colds and so gray. I suppose the main motivation I find to play videogame is to touch new systems ( it doesn't matter the nature they are) exploring and researching and testing if a projiection of myself could be right over there.

In War Titles I like to change the story, in Medieval Rpg's I do the same, but I discover an ancient world too. Inside the Shooter I only look for a blood action to unchain the stress of the day. All this can be done, of course , without offend (or damage) someone or something. That's very good.

..But Sometimes videogames doesn't care about the player and his reaction, his playing (long) sessiong, his capabilities to advance inside the difficultness. I take an heavy sight to the MMORPG because the young generation are completely involved inside of this. Gamewriters should provide an userfull parent tool for time playing limits ! But beyond the videogame there could be the television, and so on.

I suppose , at this point, that videogamers like to be great kings, but they didn't know nothing of nature and mountains around them... they like to be great soldiers, but they didn't do the obligatory military experience anyway... They like to be something they cannot do until they stay over there.The question is : Illusion can cover the "real" Life ? I don't know, MATRIX is a possibility, not a sure projiection....

and So on.. Live the present as a person and play the game as an Hero, but remember that the second is only a less complete illusion than the first :O

Watch below, freedom seems to be lost at this point....
... I suppose to require some holiday.

Ciao
Lord Hol Napult.

Freedom is only an Hallucination

This video is my personal Bootleg for the Anathema Music and it represents the sadness of a society rythmes and the poorness that my life can assume .
I would like to share this as a personal tribute to the band (that I appreciate) and as a personal cry for True Freedom !!!

[The video]
The Trailer has been created by me using some arranged shortcuts obtained going to work in some of my sad days... Nothing inside the movie is referenced to someone or something or have politics intentions. It's only a personal sum of my actual state of life ; nothing more, nothing less...

[Locations included]
Bergamo/Brescia (Italy)

Builder's Heaven - Mainframe 3270 Support Software

I've created a Software while I was waiting Open Layer (...), that is very useful to Mainframe 390 coders who create in Cobol and Easytrieves their programs.

This has not been a very simple task! It took to me a very huge amount of time, because professional software, instead of entertainment software, have rules that cannot be modified and have purposes that cannot be different from the starting idea.

My last application comes with a new site on which I fell very satisfied about the Results !
here it is :
Builder's Heaven - Your Divine Brick for Mainframe Programs_

and a funny forum dedicatet to the Cobol Programming and the other stuff about that....
Forum of Builder's Heaven

I would like to return to game programming now, but , as I said, Open Layer is not supported to Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and I cannot change my development platform now...
So, I must Only wait....

Give some Feedback about the site :) Please!
Ciao

Lord Hol Napult

The VideoGames Today

Today the merchandise for videogame is something I've never though 10 years ago. We have big companies that manipulate and decide for millions of videogamers. They decide what you will play, what you like, they decide if it's time to simulate 1942 again or if it's time to shoot something else. They decide if you must play in this or that war, or if you need a new accelerated card to play the same old things with new graphic.
RTS are in danger too, it's only a question of scripting and background.
Graphic adventures, a little breath for old gamers. The last breath is represented by the MMORPG, but how much they cost ?!? Daddy, pay me again for a month...

There aren't anymore standalone team of development, they die before to born.
There isn't anymore originality inside the code. Only major numbers, bigger spaces, higher detail, and no one use a good idea because they suffocate all that haven't a good merchandise!!

I've thought that there is a retroaction created from the human mind to regret the nature all around us, and to close our eyes in front of many problems... the only requirements: Play what we Say!

They are deciding what we must do in OUR LIFE and HOW !!! Stand Back for a while and watch the thruth beyond the lines of code... like Neo into the Matrix Movie!!

That's all. I'm tired about all of them.

A Tear for my old suffocated Team, The "Genocide Team" 1995/2002 .
Good Night.

Crisis Within

This week I've lost a piece of me , a piece of my family, a piece of my heart.
I hope her Soul will look down into the blasphemy of this f****d world to take care of us and our destiny.

About my previous post the challenge between Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Prodi, has been won by Prodi , and the happy notice is that the small winning difference has been made by a previous law that Berlusconi made to get some more elections.... the law about the voting outside Italia.
I hope we will return to normality now... I really hope that.

A last news. I've put a PayPal link into the Download Page of NosF. If someone would give 1 euro for the game I will appreciate it very much.

Italy under Pressure

While I'm writing this heavy lines, the italian population is under pressure, due to election of the new government. This is very important because in these minutes they will decide the future of the coders, programmers, electricians, and generally, alle the engineers of my loved country : ITALIA.

About that, too many companies are 'closing the door' because of financial debt and low government consideration. Too many people are losing the Job for wich they studied, worked, and suffered!
I can say , as a part of a big system, that I can comprehend their suffer, and their sadness, and I'm with all of them as a brother or as a worker.

Could people like Silvio Berlusconi or Romano Prodi be the solution of this Italian Era ? I don't know, the only hope is to see my sector increase in competition , personality, and consideration.

Informatic, electronics and engineering are the future, but without present, there's no hope to see the future...

But tomorrow, tomorrow could be another (gray) day...
LHN.

A new Project

I use this Blog to communicate to my friends that it's coming a new informatic project done by me. I'm still working on , but I reached to the 90% completed. The last thoughts remaining are the main site, the documentation (a heavy duty) , and the final testing, done by me upon real cases, heheh but I'll not tell this to no one !!!
I cannot give more info abut, but, sorry, this is not a Game, It's a Job accelerator dor Mainframe Coders and Cobolist, and Easytrievers .
If you are one of this mad informatics people, than keep an Eye to
http://BuildersHeaven.altervista.org
Nice Shot!
Ciao

LHN

Protection Under Siege !!!

We are millions in the world. The computer learning experience and the numbers of people that use the terminal has now became impressive, if I think to my old Commodore 's 64 age...
As programmer, that's what I suppose to be, the time spent to create my programs reduce itself as I learn more, like people do when they start to use computer, but the point is that I must run double fast if I want to create something that, one day, someone will use.

Coding something, about me, It's always a long time task. NOSF started in 2003 and finished in 2005. My next program, that I'm finishing in these days, took from me about 7 months.
I would like to start selling online now, creating the site, the Installer for a simple user interface, and something more. The problem is now secureness.

I must spent strenght and nights to secure my little product form hacker, crackers, loackers and wafers too. I should be a funny hackers if I would, but I don't want to be. For me it's important that I'll receive the right feedback and the right retribution too.

It's obvious that I have no company that support my programming evenings, so , if I should be an Hacker with some sort of honor, I should leave the programs that are not well supported uncracked, because they are made from people that are trying to arise.
It's like to shoot upon little birds that doesn't fly yet. This little bird would never fly again later I suppose (that means less programs to hack too ... hehe ).
Anyway I will spend some time to create something that lock the program for unregistered users . But I think it's like to create a butter wall for silver knives.

But you, Hackers, do you have some sort of Honor or everyone is the same. !?

Next Time Guyx, next time.
LHN


OPS: Open Layer 2.0 has been released, but I must wait a stable version. Some late bug fix are to be corrected (it's in release candidate version... ;P ) .

The Informatic Purpose

What do You think about informatic ? Who, in your opinion, is a coder ?
In my opinion informatic is the science to manipulate tomorrow what you understand now, but 100 time faster! That's only my opinion but think about videogames ? Don't you notice that they grow in complexity and detail or they are simply more complex than Pac-man and '89 company?

It's not only a businness affair or a big manpower creation, inside , there is the grow of previous code kept in mind from the authors of a program. When many coders create some particular graphical effect programmatically, someone from the Hardware side notice that and start to support this piece of code inside the electician logic of an hardware component.

For example : years ago many games tried to create the water effect programmatically, merging translucent texture blue tinted with an animated water texture.... Today there are traslucent effect and shaders, to give this particular effect. But , at the beginning there was many code lines, now only a few directives to the GL / DirectX drivers.

In this year many videogames are trying to put a real phisic inside the code, speaking with Havoc engine or similar . Tomorrow I think someone will get some dedicated Hardware only for that. It's a continuous rabbit game ... if you understand what I'm saying.

If you think that the mirror effect (lev. 1 and lev.2 ) inside my No One Shoots Forever game is obtained with a few code lines... you are wrong, I'm enough mad to have programmatically created it !? And I'm a fool if you think that the technology has already been created;
heheheheh... I hope.Ciao.

LHN

Open Layer Incoming

The new year has begun and the news that comes with it are many, and much interesting....
In fact the entire Allegro Community, the cave of coders where I started to create my game, is waiting a big release: Open Layer 2.0
Open Layer is only a sort of OpenGL wrapper that combined with Allegro Library give to the programmer the power to obtain accelerated 3d/2d graphic without reinventing the code of his game.

I suppose that , if OL2.0 should be released, I will turs as many other to upgrade my NOSF into the realm of GL. In my bag I already have an entire episode ready to be created, adding some level to my game.But, In that case, I think I will require some money to give the full version.

And you, shall you pay some Gold for a funny shareware game or you only prefer big and most involving videogames ?

When the release will appear, we will discuss again ;P
See yyyhaaa !!!

LHN