a question for badgehelp....

[hereatic555]

could you tell me how to make autos so i can make a good one for phlinx?

[Mayhem]

Making auto's takes years of experience .. what's wrong with Bob's phlinx auto?

Works great here.

[hereatic555]

the problem is i have never been able to get it to work........ im at rank 16 playing by hand ...... its not fun :'(

[Barbara]

You need to post your computer specs.  The auto also has a built in "report problem" feature. 

[hereatic555]

barb i asked ages ago about it and done all this and the report problem doesnt work for me it says can't connect to the internet

[sentinels]

mine works, but has to be babysat...but still beats playing it by hand

[Barbara]

barb i asked ages ago about it and done all this and the report problem doesnt work for me it says can't connect to the internet

1) Operating system xp service pack 1
2) Browser firefox,i.e6.0 netscape 8.0 smart explorer i tried it on all of em it didnt work
3) Color setting 32 bit
4) Screen resolution  1024x768
5) Smooth edges of screen fonts checked or unchecked unchecked
6) What Java you are using sun java and ms java
7) Is anything at all happening when you start the program
it loads and when it trys to play it doesnt shot it only moves the shooter thingy any help would be good    thank you in advance


I found the post with your computer specs.  I will ask Bob to look at it in the morning.  He's not going to teach you how to make autos, sorry.  Actually, you said that you are getting a new computer soon.  Maybe it will work on your new computer.

[Betty Boop]

writing autos???? just learning to do the basic programming is a challenge.....i wouldnt even want to think about writing an auto........its easier to pay 10.00 and let someone else do it.......that way i get to keep the hair i have left........... :D

[Mayhem]

Yeah, even writting my simple 'helpers' is a challenge.

It took me months before i could even get a script to "Look for a color ... here, Move the mouse ... here, and click ... here" in a game window.

You can't just wake up one morning and decide to write an auto .. just doesn't work that way.

I 100% agree with you bettyboop, I'd rather pay the $10 and keep my hair and sanity.  :)

[Barbara]

Well, not only that.  You say that the auto doesn't work, yet you would like the man who wrote the auto to teach you how to make it?  It would take well over a thousand hours to teach you.

[beanie]

I took just a basic programming class years ago when they were doing fortran programming I think it was called and oh my- you have to write a line for each little tiny thing you want it to do- no small task.  I passed the class - mind you this was like 20 yrs ago and guess what - I dont remember a thing.  But I have a cute diploma from it.  :P

[hereatic555]

ok ill go to school and be taught how to do it then:) (and ill fail) all i wanna do is make 1 auto and ill be proud

[Mayhem]

This first thing i learned in programming was ...

10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
run

:P

[hereatic555]

what?

[beanie]

Yes  :) max- thats exactly the stuff we had to learn, man makes me feel sad the things the brain forgets.  And, Mayhem - that is what we had to do and print it on huge green sheets of "computer paper" back then.  I did pass and did very well but after that really had no interest and I'm sure things took a big change from then.  Hereatic555, you should go to school if you are interested in learning how to do that, but to say I want to learn to make one small program and I'll be proud- is like saying "all I want to do is perform one surgery and I'll be proud".  It takes school, it takes skill and it takes lots of training.  Just be great at what you know and leave the other stuff to the experts.   O0

[Douglas]

heretic, turn off your firewall, then submit your report.  The firewall is what's preventing you from submitting a problem report.  By the way, I find that your signature is very harassing and doesn't really belong on this forum.  If you'd change it on your own, that'll make you look better than to have a few of us complain to the admin types here...

[hereatic555]

i changed it a couple of mins ago.

[BadgeHelpOscar]

Mayhem....

I remember typing those exact lines on my Commodore 64 computer and I got excited when the left hand side of the screen filled up with HELLO!

[Stinky]

OMG what a flashback..LOL LOL
I remember making those programs in computer class in high school..(am I showing my age?)
It was so exciting to see those words fill up my screen. When the teacher was out there was always someone who would change "hello" to something less appropriate.   :-X

[hereatic555]

Bob im sorry if i offended you with this post i didnt mean to in any way i was just frustrated that i couldnt get it to work. oh well stuff happens. sorry about this post