DaveC posted on Sep 13 2005 at 01:42 PM said:
I remember Skeezix complaining about the poor screen of the FLU. I had a spare BLU around so I sold it to him at my cost. I figured that if he liked it better he would be more likely to update Castaway more. Plus I really didn't need the extra so I figured it would be win-win. Well after he got his BLU he actually updated Castaway LESS and eventually went to PSP, so much for that.
(Remember that complaining all the time issue I brought up the other day?
Actually, you sold me a BLU (and thanks btw, its a _very nice unit_) for cash (not cheaply either).. there wasn't any conditions upon it. It just so happens I've got a PSP now. Damn me for getting a non-GP32 device
(Though I admit, I am ashamed of buying a Sony product, though it is pretty sleek.)
drawer and continued on doing GBA and DS stuff. Does Skeezix even want to do GP2X stuff or is he happy to stay with the more powerful PSP? Who will like it and be most likely to do something?
Again, I think I've personally posted to you 4 or 5 times that yes I'm interested in gp2x coding. This is why I keep wondering if you've got it in for me or others.. why do you keep spreading "FUD" and negativity? Or do you just keep forgetting this fact I've repeated over and over?
I'm a really positive person, and this sort of thing bugs the heck out of me.
I have nothing to prove to you, and my history speaks for itself. I know you dont' intend to annoy me, but argh.. stop with the deliberately questing things to make them look worse. Really, this sort of behaviour makes me thing about staying clear, if all I'm goign to get is negativity :/
How many people created a fully scriptable cross platform game creation system, that he didn't need _at all_, solely to try and help Palm/Zodiac/GP32 people get along better and maybe make some games? Sadly, no one used Zot, but it was one of the msot ambitious projects around, and a larger work than pretty much anything else on the GP32 platform. Not to mention the dozens of works I've done over the years for a half dozen platform. (Do you have any idea how long it takes to write up a general purpose cross platform language interpreter that runs on cell phones, pdas, little consoles?)
I wasn't going to post in this thread, but heres my comments..
1) Donate if you've got some spare cash and like the cause; if folks get me a gp2x I will be much in their debt as right now the belts a little tighter than I like. If people don't donate, then eventually I'll likely get one anyway, down the road, when things sort out a bit.
2) You can't attach conditions -- "heres $10 if you get a full speed SNES emu" -- how does the emu get made without a unit? If a dev has a unit to do the dev, he doesn't need your $10
3) Devs and certainly myself are proud people; donate or not, its up to you, and theres no guilt or shame either way. I know I'm just as happy if you don't donate, and frankly, the idea of people donating to me makes me feel funny.. but on the other hand, it makes me feel proud that people value the things I've done in my time over the years. If you don't donate, thats cool -- not everyone has money, not everyone cares that much, etc etc.. I know I hate sending cash off into outer space for some loudmouth to have too
But if you donate, thanks a bunch.
I am not against this, I am for it and will donate something if it will produce results. I just want to make sure it is handled with the most fairness as possible and that it will produce some results. That is why I had the blanket donation that would give discounts to all interested devs. If devs could all buy a GP2X for $100.00 that would make it very enticing plus make it fair for all. I guess the first step would be to mail all possible devs to who is interested. We could ask: would you get a GP2X and develop for it if a) it was free B) was available for a discount. c) I would get one to play but not dev. Something like that.
I must admit getting a free gp2x weould be cool as hell
But if people get together $100 or something, I'll kick in the rest.
But I agree -- I've been pushing for dev discounts for ages; thats what we get for Palm OS, for Pocket PC and other platforms; sure, a Sony SDK for PS1 cost a _bundle_, but thats because they're pricks
For a lot of platforms the company realizes devs are a rare asset, and so discounted uinits get slung around -- dev pays less, so hes happy.. company gets a developer, so they're happy. Really, in PDA-land its not uncommon for freebiues to go to top devs to entice them or reward them or just to get their input on new device features etc.. but GPH aren't a big company, and no one expects them to give away 1000 units to a pile of devs on the net.
So anyway, I had no intention of posting at all.. but I'm quite proud of my work and I can't let somethign go by which seems a slight (even thoguh I know DaveC doesn't mean it as such, though he does seem to keep spewing it out!)
jeff
