09-16-2023, 11:34 PM
I'm sorry if I sounded like snob. But I just don't want to give my e-mail address to another party at this moment.
Especially for one thing which is free for !one! day. To double the number of account owners who would never, ever consider buying anything from them. I sure wouldn't.
Like the Fanatical thing, I have never downloaded an e-book because I don't know how that works. If I could get it in PDF format, good because I already have Atril or Okular (on Windows as well) to choose from to handle that format. For something that calls itself a book, but can't be had in tangible fasion, I'm reluctant to install yet another program for a format that maybe is obscure. Such as EPUB. That took me by surprise in another forum last year.
BTW the Fanatical giveaway was generous. Although now I'm disappointed at my own lack of skills. There's a lot of stuff in de Byl's book that I cannot apply such as the vectors. I have to install the Python libraries to enjoy any of it.
I know coding in 3D graphics is not easy. But I'm still affected by the inability to run any of the example programs on Pure Basic. This was before the last release I was willing to acknowledge as useful, v5.21LTS, which four or five examples were able to run on my dying Toshiba single-core laptop with 1.5GiB RAM. I only wanted the examples to work, to see what could be done with that expensive programming system. Kept crashing with runtime error at "RenderWorld()" procedure. T_T
One day I sat down to observe one of MasterGy's programs in source code. Remained boggled. Some people could just grasp the technique. I'm in the camp that can't no matter how hard they try.
Especially for one thing which is free for !one! day. To double the number of account owners who would never, ever consider buying anything from them. I sure wouldn't.
Like the Fanatical thing, I have never downloaded an e-book because I don't know how that works. If I could get it in PDF format, good because I already have Atril or Okular (on Windows as well) to choose from to handle that format. For something that calls itself a book, but can't be had in tangible fasion, I'm reluctant to install yet another program for a format that maybe is obscure. Such as EPUB. That took me by surprise in another forum last year.
BTW the Fanatical giveaway was generous. Although now I'm disappointed at my own lack of skills. There's a lot of stuff in de Byl's book that I cannot apply such as the vectors. I have to install the Python libraries to enjoy any of it.
I know coding in 3D graphics is not easy. But I'm still affected by the inability to run any of the example programs on Pure Basic. This was before the last release I was willing to acknowledge as useful, v5.21LTS, which four or five examples were able to run on my dying Toshiba single-core laptop with 1.5GiB RAM. I only wanted the examples to work, to see what could be done with that expensive programming system. Kept crashing with runtime error at "RenderWorld()" procedure. T_T
One day I sat down to observe one of MasterGy's programs in source code. Remained boggled. Some people could just grasp the technique. I'm in the camp that can't no matter how hard they try.