Main Forum > General Discussion
Get Adobe Photoshop CS2 for free officially
yogiholzer:
The attraction was to build a table completely on my own.
I had to realise that that is unaccessible for me.
I don't want to use samples/models/patterns.
That wouldn't feel right in my conception.
sleepy:
It bothers me that we have an International Community of pinball players and VP is still 'English-Only".
It bothers me because Randy started VP with the intent of offering VP in English, Spanish, and in German, and it all got lost somewhere. The source code for Visual Pinball still contains basic versions for those languages.
It Really Bothers Me that I can remember talking about computer languages in 1960 and how the computer language is only for the good of the user because the language has to be translated to the computer's system of Numbers to be of use.
The words and the human languages do not even matter to the computer at all; only that the human language is correctly translated to the Numbers that the computer uses.
So it Really Bothers Me that I can remember talking about computer languages in 1960, flipping 1960, and how the languages should be written in The Native Language of each country, for the good of the user. For All People.
And yet the companies who provide our computer languages do not care at all to write the programming languages in any language but English.
Sure, Microsoft will provide Windows in a hundred different languages for the good of the user, but they and others still have not written the programming languages in any other world languages which give the user the control of their computer. That Windows can be written in a thousand different languages and still run on any computer only proves that those who are in power mean to restrict the use of computer programming languages to all people.
sleepy:
And I want to clarify something.
The talk in 1960 was that, because the human language was a matter of the user's own language as an easy interface to writing computer code, there was an idea to write the user interface in the International languages of the world; all languages. But the system would allow for reverse translation from computer code to whatever language the user uses, so no one would be left to learn any other language but that of the computer syntax while at the same time, the computer syntax would be as close as possible to everyday speaking languages, like BASIC. Except it would be BASIC translated to English, or translated to Spanish. Or translated to German, depending on the user's preferences.
But I suspect that it was not done that way because of the extra file sizes, though I believe that larger file sizes would be limited to the program translating the languages, not the computer scripts themselves.
The computer scripts would still be in the Numerical language of a computer, at the same size.
yogiholzer:
Oops, that's difficult to translate, sorry.
However, if all the programs would/could use standardised language files just for the user interface
that was an not to underrate improvement.
Itchigo:
Actually vp isn't english only. I learned vari targets from a vp table not even in english.
This is from Big Indian, 2001.
Rem Modification de la routine d'affichage, de gestion et d'initialisation des scores.
Rem Modification du graphique et de la routine du vari-target.
Rem Nouvelles images (bumper,backglass,playfield) et suppression de certain sons.
Rem 01/08/01 Version 1.0
Rem
Ball = 0
Bonus = 0
Compteur = 0
Credit = 0
Joueur_Actuel = 0
Last_Ball = 3
Loterie = 0
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version