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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by al_borland »

tomcam wrote: post #34

Let me hijack this with a hate story about my wife and minigolf games. Back in 1996 she thought maybe she needed a hobby. She was a housewife and we didn’t have any children yet. She said maybe she could do a game. At the time I was working in Microsoft C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes framework, building Windows apps. She had never programmed a language more challenging than Turbo Pascal. When she asked how…

Is this the difference between learning and doing? You were looking at how long it would take to learn all the foundational technologies, once that was done, she could start to code the game. Where she took the on-the-job-training approach. Work on the project, run into a problem, learn enough to solve said problem. Repeat until done.

I’m usually the learn before I start type as well, though I find it doesn’t really work for me in practice. It ends up becoming a form of procrastination.

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by darby_nine »

tomcam wrote: post #34

Let me hijack this with a hate story about my wife and minigolf games. Back in 1996 she thought maybe she needed a hobby. She was a housewife and we didn’t have any children yet. She said maybe she could do a game. At the time I was working in Microsoft C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes framework, building Windows apps. She had never programmed a language more challenging than Turbo Pascal. When she asked how…

> She took less than a week to create a working, bug-free prototype, but then lost interest.

This is pretty common, no? Same reason why everyone thinks AI will change development: people mistake the initial time cost of building an initial prototype for being representative of the total cost of making the thing people actually demand (which mostly never happens).

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by tomcam »

al_borland wrote: post #51
tomcam wrote: post #34

Let me hijack this with a hate story about my wife and minigolf games. Back in 1996 she thought maybe she needed a hobby. She was a housewife and we didn’t have any children yet. She said maybe she could do a game. At the time I was working in Microsoft C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes framework, building Windows apps. She had never programmed a language more challenging than Turbo Pascal. When she asked how…

Is this the difference between learning and doing? You were looking at how long it would take to learn all the foundational technologies, once that was done, she could start to code the game. Where she took the on-the-job-training approach. Work on the project, run into a problem, learn enough to solve said problem. Repeat until done. I’m usually the learn before I start type as well, though I find it doesn’t really…

She says much the same thing as you. I appear to be unable to learn something without going to first principles.

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by classichasclass »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #29
andrewshadura wrote: post #14

It would be really cool if someone wrote something like WINE to allow running PalmOS applications on Android.

https://styletap.com/

Unfortunately, apparently not compatible with Android 14 (there's a warning about this on the website). On my Pixel 7 Pro, it says "not compatible with your phone."

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by tomcam »

tomcam wrote: post #41
ok_dad wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> bug-free children I know you didn't mean anything by it, and it was a pretty funny joke, but children with bugs are pretty cool as well :)

Two of ours were born with severe handicaps but they are all insanely fun and fabulously good company. Not sure why my sibling comment was flagged.

Excellent username btw
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