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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Alastair
• last name: McBain
• portals:
• slengpung: pictures
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Behind the Curtain by United Force [web] & Digital Dynamite [web]
• cdc #2: muoto by Traction [web] & Brainstorm [web]
• cdc #3: Blitzgewitter by Titan [web]
• cdc #4: Optical Circuit by 0x4015

• 4k procedural graphics Windows Come Play Our Organ by Loonies [web]
• Yes, quite nice.
• rulezadded on the 2015-07-11 23:04:13
• diskmag Amiga OCS/ECS Times #05 by Stellar [web]
• Thumbs up for the tune.
• rulezadded on the 2015-07-08 10:31:17
• 512b MS-Dos MS-Dos/gus CR-ASM by The Cronies
• In short: ARGH! but also, I suppose, it deserves a thumbs up for at least working, even if I don't understand it. Though I don't know that it necessarily deserves the GUS category tag or demotool, until someone actually creates one with it that does more than print some hard-coded text.
• rulezadded on the 2015-07-06 14:09:07
• 512b MS-Dos MS-Dos/gus CR-ASM by The Cronies
• It was going to be more elegant, but all I managed was either a COM file with just "Z" in it, a COM file that generated an exception, a COM file that produced nothing, or the ever popular COM file that printed out its own ASM source but bookended by a shitload of gibberish.
  
  Code:MOV AX, 0200 MOV DX, 0057 INT 21 MOV DX, 0045 INT 21 MOV DX, 0020 INT 21 MOV DX, 004C INT 21 MOV DX, 004F INT 21 MOV DX, 0056 INT 21 MOV DX, 0045 INT 21 MOV DX, 0020 INT 21 MOV DX, 0043 INT 21 MOV DX, 0055 INT 21 MOV DX, 0042 INT 21 MOV DX, 0045 INT 21 MOV DX, 0053 INT 21 MOV DX, 000D INT 21 MOV DX, 000A INT 21 MOV AX, 4C00 INT 21
  
  I spent several hours just getting to the point where I decided to go back to what you see above. I'm going back to C. :P
• isokadded on the 2015-07-06 14:06:26
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Quote:

  K-Man: yet, they didn't call the product line "Girl LEGO". It is targetted at girls, which is no problem, but they don't try to make it "girls only" or so. On the contrary, the bricks are compatible with their other products so it's possible to mix different sets and everyone plays together.
  
  That's the subtle and hair-thin margin between acknowledging the gender differences, and doing gender segregation. Because of it's name, this prod is on the wrong side (yes, the margin is really hair-thin, it's just because of an unfortunate naming choice)

  They also released the Research Institute set. Even though it was pitched as a "Female Minifigure Set", the final description on the website for the actual product does not reference gender at all. The only thing one might notice is the minifigures on the box art. Was it worth it for them to produce that set? Heck yes! Do I think it's cool? Yup. Do I know women who enjoyed it? Yup. Could a guy buy it? Totally. Is it explicitly marketed at any particular people/gender? I don't think so...
• isokadded on the 2015-07-01 09:07:29
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Quote:

  “Especially on television, the advertising explicitly shows who should be playing with a toy, and kids pick up on those cues,” Eliot says. “There is no reason to think Lego is more intrinsically appealing to boys.”

  So why do we need to perpetuate that? It would be nice if people weren't influenced by advertising like that or that advertising didn't do that, but that's not the world we have. Any reason why we can't try to make the world in to the one that's nicer for everyone?
• isokadded on the 2015-06-30 21:10:30
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Quote:

  So, what does this production achieve that you couldn't achieve by downloading a freeware Python IDE, setting the window background color to pink, and sitting in front of the computer with your daughter and some tutorials?

  Now we can get to the real issue! Arguing about which language is the best for beginners!
• isokadded on the 2015-06-30 09:03:15
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Original thumb down poster*
• isokadded on the 2015-06-30 06:44:46
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Quote:

  I don't know what's funnier, the prod or the gender equality fascists :) My girls can use what ever coloured basic they want, for the older one i'd bet it would be this atm but on the other hand i dunno how lovely the colours are on the long run...

  As the original poster, my point was sort of that. You don't need to patronize anyone to try to get them to like it. Make it interesting! However taking something that already exists and slapping pink on it? I'd think that it's largely true things people aren't interested in aren't going to be fixed with a color swap and a blinking heart decal.
  
  I think this prod would be quite an achievement on its own without doing anything polarizing. It probably would have been just fine being pink, and having a rainbow, but calling it "Girl BASIC" I think was where most people got off.
• isokadded on the 2015-06-30 06:44:26
• 4k MS-Dos Girl Basic 2k by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• I am a guy but I'm sorry, I don't see why it has to be pink and be explicitly branded for girls to have to be interesting to them. LEGO worked just fine for all genders before the introduction of LEGO Friends. It's not the programming language that's the problem...
• sucksadded on the 2015-06-29 21:38:18