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Anyone into Android programming?
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TRS-80: Ah, Radio Shack, how did you drop the ball?
I had a CoCo3 with 512k ram, and I could actually studio-edit short sound clips. My friends didn't believe me, because their Commodore 64s had. . . well. 
Changed my mind about the Surface: poor battery life comparative to a laptop, slow for Unity, and at least for older versions of Unity, needs a mouse (no touch or pen support). Then someone kind of sums it up by saying you get more power for less money if you go with a laptop over a hybrid. So I think the dream ends there.
 (July 13, 2015 at 11:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote: TRS-80: Ah, Radio Shack, how did you drop the ball? I don't know what you mean, "drop the ball" do you mean why did I stop writing code? If that is the question, the answer is I needed to work and pay bills and found out that smoking weed is more fun than writing code. I also felt limited by BASIC and didn't know how to proceed to learning a new language. I did some VB at my job because it was similar to the scripting language used for the OCMM we used so I used that knowledge to springboard my programming skills on the Mitutoyo OCMM. I remember the horror of rewinding and fast forwarding tapes to find the start point of a program, then pushing play and waiting for the program to play into the computer. My dad had a bunch of tapes with programs on them and little numbers indicating where to start playing the tape. What a pain in the ass; floppys were much better.
No, Radio Shack dropped the ball in not being a computer-making powerhouse. They could have competed straight-up with PCs.
Ahh, well that, yes, kind of like how Atari failed to hold their share of the console market.
(July 16, 2015 at 4:08 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Ahh, well that, yes, kind of like how Atari failed to hold their share of the console market. Absolutely. At least Atari made a good push, though. Tandy/Radio Shack had such a strong hobbyist following-- I mean like deep, deep loyalty to the product, and they eventually just said, "Nah. . . can't compete. Giving up." Was QQ moment when Rainbow magazine shut down.
@Benny. Just to let you know I finally got a new laptop (well not new; refurbished) a few days ago and have now got Unity and Blender installed. So if you want to carry on where we left off we can? I backed up my projects before and they work fine in this new installation so it's just a matter of getting re-aquainted with it all as it has been out of my mind for a few weeks. I was up to the point where I had created a new scene in the Roll a Ball project to house the pool table blender model you recommended. I haven't done anything new to it but I did press play and the ball just falls through the surface of the table so that's where I'm up to now. Anyway, how's it going with you? I recall you were starting to learn blender as well and suggested we could learn together?
I will get an Android Phone in like a few months and i will join and help with any android coding projects too!
(August 9, 2015 at 12:56 pm)pool Wrote: I will get an Android Phone in like a few months and i will join and help with any android coding projects too! Hiya pool  This thread started being about Android but it has kind of morphed into being about Unity3d. Unity can create apps for Android but it can make them for many different platforms - so Android is just one of many for it. But as far as specifically Android programming - in Java and with Eclipse - is concerned I personally am not particularly interested in that any more and Unity is my new thing. But if you still want to talk about Android programming, there are other people who've replied to this thread that are still interested in it I think 
(August 9, 2015 at 1:10 pm)emjay Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 12:56 pm)pool Wrote: I will get an Android Phone in like a few months and i will join and help with any android coding projects too! Unity can create apps for android,as in,games,right? Also,any specific reason for loosing interest in Java and Eclipse? |
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