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Saying Hello - marbac74 - 05-26-2024
Hi Everyone,
my name is Marco from Italy, I'm 49 and I am a teacher (History/Philosophy). I also like programming as an hobby, I like playing games on the PC. I have a MacBook with M2 processor and Sonoma as an OS. I'm following Terry's tutorial on how to learn QB64 and I'm really enjoying it. I registered yesterday to be more connected to the community of people who work at developing QB64PE in case of issues, questions and similar things. Up to now I downloaded two excellent games with which I played a little bit lately: Galaga, which brought so many memories of playing arcade games, and Tic Tac Toe Rings, which is in many respects a peculiar and beautiful game. I'll stay tuned and I hope I'll be making some progress with my QBasic and QB64 proficiency.
Thanks a lot for now,
Marco
RE: Saying Hello - bplus - 05-26-2024
hello @marbac74 welcome!
who is your favorite philosopher? decartes because of cartesian coodinate system plus i think
, pascal for triangle, probablility heory and for attempting peace between 2 sects or spinoza for idea of god and moral system attempt?ttt rings is a favorite game i play too once and awhile.
RE: Saying Hello - marbac74 - 05-26-2024
(05-26-2024, 06:33 PM)bplus Wrote: hello @marbac74 welcome!Really hard question...I'll name three that I had something to do with lately: Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill
who is your favorite philosopher? decartes because of cartesian coodinate system plus i think
ttt rings is a favorite game i play too once and awhile.
RE: Saying Hello - a740g - 05-26-2024
(05-26-2024, 05:55 PM)marbac74 Wrote: Hi Everyone,
my name is Marco from Italy, I'm 49 and I am a teacher (History/Philosophy). I also like programming as an hobby, I like playing games on the PC. I have a MacBook with M2 processor and Sonoma as an OS. I'm following Terry's tutorial on how to learn QB64 and I'm really enjoying it. I registered yesterday to be more connected to the community of people who work at developing QB64PE in case of issues, questions and similar things. Up to now I downloaded two excellent games with which I played a little bit lately: Galaga, which brought so many memories of playing arcade games, and Tic Tac Toe Rings, which is in many respects a peculiar and beautiful game. I'll stay tuned and I hope I'll be making some progress with my QBasic and QB64 proficiency.
Thanks a lot for now,
Marco
Welcome to the QB64-PE forums Marco!
I always wondered if QB64-PE works correctly on macOS running on Apple Silicon. Now I know.
RE: Saying Hello - NakedApe - 05-27-2024
(05-26-2024, 08:30 PM)a740g Wrote:(05-26-2024, 05:55 PM)marbac74 Wrote: Hi Everyone,
my name is Marco from Italy, I'm 49 and I am a teacher (History/Philosophy). I also like programming as an hobby, I like playing games on the PC. I have a MacBook with M2 processor and Sonoma as an OS. I'm following Terry's tutorial on how to learn QB64 and I'm really enjoying it. I registered yesterday to be more connected to the community of people who work at developing QB64PE in case of issues, questions and similar things. Up to now I downloaded two excellent games with which I played a little bit lately: Galaga, which brought so many memories of playing arcade games, and Tic Tac Toe Rings, which is in many respects a peculiar and beautiful game. I'll stay tuned and I hope I'll be making some progress with my QBasic and QB64 proficiency.
Thanks a lot for now,
Marco
Welcome to the QB64-PE forums Marco!
I always wondered if QB64-PE works correctly on macOS running on Apple Silicon. Now I know.
Hi marbac74. You've come to the right place to learn from very cool people, welcome! Now @a740g, haven't you been listening to me whine about QB64PE on M series macs for months now?
It works very well indeed. 
RE: Saying Hello - Dimster - 05-27-2024
Hello marbac74.
Would you say "2b or NOT 2b" was a philosophical question or a precursor to the Logical Operators by G. Boolean.
Nice to have another coder from Italy aboard.
RE: Saying Hello - Kernelpanic - 05-27-2024
Also welcome! A philosopher. . . Interesting. Can I ask something?
Who did the following saying come from: Intelligent and hard-working, that doesn't exist. I am intelligent and lazy myself. But God protect us from the hard-working stupid ones.
And who is it from: Irony is the final phase of disappointment.
All good things come in threes: The friends call itself sincere, the enemies are it.
RE: Saying Hello - marbac74 - 05-27-2024
(05-27-2024, 04:32 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: Also welcome! A philosopher. . . Interesting. Can I ask something?
Who did the following saying come from: Intelligent and hard-working, that doesn't exist. I am intelligent and lazy myself. But God protect us from the hard-working stupid ones.
And who is it from: Irony is the final phase of disappointment.
All good things come in threes: The friends call itself sincere, the enemies are it.
No idea at all about the authors of these three quotes
I know it's weird that one might be interested in things so different like history and computers...but maybe I was curious but unsupervised so you know...doing many things without being really good at any of them
RE: Saying Hello - Kernelpanic - 05-27-2024
Quote:No idea at all about the authors of these three quotes
About the sayings:
1. Maurice de Talleyrand
2. Immanuel Kant
3. Arthur Schopenhauer
RE: Saying Hello - TerryRitchie - 05-27-2024
Welcome! Glad to see you joined the forum.
Tic-Tac-Toe rings is my favorite game written in QB64. I play that game at least a few times a month.