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

The Most Beautiful Library

There are several graphic and GUI library upon the NET; many of them are well supported by a young and courious community of developers. Boys , sometimes girls (I never found girls, but there will be surely someone) , passes their evenings and nights to code, try, destroy , draw, push buttons , and chat to understand mechanics and methods to create videogames, applications, toolz, editors, and many other stuff the world require to goes on.

There are many good libraries that allow so many tasks that I cannot list them all down here, but you can make a good exploration looking down here :

Free Game Development Libraries

I've notice this site keeping some attention to the related forums I follow.
Between all of them, I tried Allegro, because it's the first library I've met in my life, chatting and speaking with other people. In my opinion , if you want to begin , you should use that Library because it's simple, easy to use, well documented, and has raised a never programming man like me to the level of game designer (of course I work alone in my bedroom, but I can say to have create a full game with graphic, sound and all the stuff a game requires...) !!!

Now Allegro is evolving to the 3d realms of OpenGL, with two satellites add-on, AllegroGL and Open Layer.
This mean a new era in the "home game development" and I really hope someone would join the challenge with himself, programming a game. I'm also sure that Allegro is more than a simple library, It's a door to the Future!!!

That's all for tonigh.
See Yaaa!!

We change the Look !

Today I've done some little changes to my Blog. First , I've turned my old black Blog into a more acceptable paper style Blog. Please, post any comment about.

In second way, I've put the blog into my site! That means that I don't open another window when, from my site, you click upon the BLOG Button. It's nice to watch it inside my realm... is it ?

At Last I've put two links upon the Blogger Nosf Page that point again to my site. It' s all a problem of Targets, but I think to have now enough experience about.

The new year has begun, and Nosf is Waiting that I finish another project. Then I'll be happy to return to my preferred programming, the videogames!!

Good day to all the girls I know, tomorrow will be your day... ;P

HailYA!!

Have a nice 2006 !!!

I hope this year all the wars will turn to the end.
I hope this year all the wrong shall fall.
I hope this year NOSF would grow.

and I will have my nice year !


Have a nice 2006 to everyone.
Thanks.
ciao

Italy is falling, and coders with Her

Sometimes I feel depressed cause of major forces that lies upon me. Every try I make to arise in something fall into the deep of neglectness.
In my opinion Italy is trying to get out from a bad government and a bad financial situation. That means that if I want to obtain some success, I must run double fast.

The possibilities that other Countries offer to their informatic people are more, and better.
What to do now ? Be silent and think, or, escape and try something else.
We have the only consolation looking at the China Goverment, it's a bad government that suffocate their people for an international success. That's a bad argument to speak about, and I'll leave for another discussion place.... but we must do something , and we must do it now!

I hope in a great future for italian coders, informatic is growing and it's now everywhere. From the calculator to the telephones, from the bank to the cow controls in the small farm!
We have a great occasion to experiment if something is good without spending too much. Informatic can simulate and return a response in less time and costs... and the "know how" can be duplicated more than transmitted... I don't know if you understand me at all.

That's all.
Good Christmas and have another NICE Year !

Ciao

LHN

Ok boys, from today the Blog turns to English

I've understood that there are more people who can speak english than people who can understand Italian, so, my blog is now officially in english (or better, that's my purpose).

Feel free to post your impressions about my game and my comments. I'll be very pleased about.

Today I'm happy to show you another site that Host my game with some review, and it's again from the CZ Country :

Freegame.CZ

I've notice a particular attention of this country for my game, but I don't understand why yet !
Italy has payed low attention about, and I'm not so pleased about that. If someone would translate the review they made for me I will appreciate it very much.

See you next time.