It's coming...
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And the first person to guess what exactly, gets it free!  http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wheaties/bob.jpg     |
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| Jesus? |
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| The woman shaking hands with the muscle man? ...I dunno. My crappy modem blew up trying to DL all those pics, anyway! :/ |
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| Bob control functions? :) |
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| A poo? |
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Michael... |
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| Michael Winner is coming??? What, are you on crack??? lol |
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| Ok, i'm dumb.....what's Bob? |
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| The more pertinent question is, what's A bob? |
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| Revenge of the Nerds: The Game? |
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| are you refering to image controlor sprites ? The PC doesn`t have BOb`s :-P BOb`s on the amiga were Blitter OBjects ,, the pc don`t have a fat agnus |
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| Is it Smash TV? |
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| 'Smash TV' - "Ross" you know nothing. I know what it is - Blitter object stuff. I've won a prize!!! Woof-it up |
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| Puki: you're too late, Michael already answered correctly. :-) But you are correct, BOB stands for Blitter Object. Sure, the PC doesn't have the hardware the Amiga had, but that doesn't matter. I needed a term other than "sprite" so that people won't confuse them with Blitz3D's billboard sprites. And I figured the Amiga fans would appreciate the homage. :-) SwiftBOBS (Swift Blitter Object System) will be arriving shortly. It's nearly complete, and will be finished sometime today. SwiftBOBS is a system for drawing 2D sprites, hereafter referred to as BOBS. You can create BOBS, move them around, and change their draw order all with standard Blitz-like commands. In addition, you can change their color, alpha, and blending mode. And, they support both masking and alpha maps. Obviously blending comes as a speed hit, but the system has one optimized function for each type of blit to make it as fast as possible, and blitting a normal masked image with no special effects runs at the same speed as any normal image blitting command. I'll be posting a full run down of all 22 commands after I finish the system and make a demo. |
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| Sounds like a plan :) Cool! |
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| I'm assuming all the pictures are of people called Bob? I don't recognise any of them. |
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| You're not supposed to recognize them. You're supposed to use your powers of deduction to notice that all the filenames say BOB. :-) I just picked the funniest pictures that came up when I did a search for BOB on Google image search. Btw, the second guy down is Bob Lazarus. I'm pretty sure he's a guy who claims to have worked for the government at Area-51 on alien ships. And the government has denied that he was ever in the military at all. |
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| Righty Ho. You're stranger than I first thought Mr Swift. |
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| Bob Lazar... he's fulla shirt. |
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| "Righty Ho. You're stranger than I first thought Mr Swift." I'm stranger than you thought second too. :-) |
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| "Bob Lazar... he's fulla shirt." And his alien conspiracy theories are pants! |
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| No offense, but is this just a 1 tris (2 tris ?) particle / sprite system; with a clever name ;P ? Or is it a clever 2d lib :) ? |
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| SwiftBob? Half-cousin of Sideshow Bob? |
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| sounds like a clever 2d lib eg sprites in 2d? |
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| It's 2d. It will work with Blitz, Blitz3D, and BlitzPlus. |
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| A de-interlacer? |
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| HIDALGO!!! --Mike |
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| Huuu HIDALGO??? Ok thas to much that |
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| Hey wait a minute "Michael Reitzenstein" said 'Bob control functions? :)' - surely that is a calculated guess of 'Bob' + something computer related - plus he uses a question mark - he clearly took a shot in the dark. My 'Blitter object stuff.' surely claims the prize (ignoring "maverick" who could have edited his post). Please mail me my free puppy - perhaps a German shepherd puppy. |
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| Tell you what puki. If you agree to look at the code and post your opinion of it in the main thread for it, I'll give ya a free copy. :-) And I did confirm with Michael what he meant by BOB in a private message. |
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| Okay "sswifty-sausage". Although, a free copy would be cheating other Blitzers - so I'll take the puppy instead - thanks "swwifty". |
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| Here you go Puki... one german shepherd puppy, vaccum sealed for freshness, delivered next-day air via FedEx. Had a heck of a time getting him in the box, but I managed... Though I had to sit on it to keep the flaps closed while I stapled it shut...  |
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| Excellent!!! - he looks cute - "sswift" is the man - move over "Mark Sibly" (loser). If I carefully remove the bag thing then I can keep it for days when I take him out in the rain. Just need to make sure he doesn't savage my squeeky-bone. In fact, I'll call him "sswifty" - "Zork" can keep his puppy, mine is better. |
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