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[a740g]

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.  

lol. ok. my bad. I keep forgetting things. Must be the work and back to office nonsense.

[bert22306]

Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall to earth faster than light objects. All the lemmings parroted that same wrong notion for centuries, until finally, one Isaac Newton said, "BS!" And he demonstrated the flaw in the previous "common wisdom." Not just that, he provided everyone with a verifiable set of physics equations, so anyone can confirm what Newton claims, with math and also with experiments.

No need to "just believe."

An example of why my personal reaction to philosophy always boils down to this:

"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, sounds like a personal opinion."

(But yes, even I can enjoy the clever turns of phrase some philosophers come up with.)

[Dav]

Hello, @marbac74!  Welcome to the forum! 

- Dav

[marbac74]

Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall to earth faster than light objects. All the lemmings parroted that same wrong notion for centuries, until finally, one Isaac Newton said, "BS!" And he demonstrated the flaw in the previous "common wisdom." Not just that, he provided everyone with a verifiable set of physics equations, so anyone can confirm what Newton claims, with math and also with experiments.

No need to "just believe."

An example of why my personal reaction to philosophy always boils down to this:

"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, sounds like a personal opinion."

(But yes, even I can enjoy the clever turns of phrase some philosophers come up with.)

Aristotle wrote many treaties (far too many one might argue) on very different topics. His influence in Logic has been extensive, in some other aspects, like Physics, things have changed radically from his time, but I dare say that things have changed since Newton's time as well. Of the three philosophers I mentioned Mill dealt a lot with political/economical issues, for example, and of course one may say that there is no "hard science" of politics and of the so called "social sciences" (which of course is true), but nonetheless even human behavior shows regularities, correlations and so on, which make it possible to undertake some kind of rational, if not of scientific (in the narrow sense), investigation of it, I think. Even programming a computer, I would say, is an exact science only to a certain degree   (but here I'm speaking strictly for myself)

[Pete]

My grandparents came from Italy. These days in America, I wish they were still alive to take me back!

Welcome to the forum. Best way to use it, write code and if it doesn't work, post it in the https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=10 (Help Me) forum. You'll get lots of friendly help to learn how to make it work or even make it better. That sure beats spending hours not getting anywhere while banging your head against the Coliseum. Of wait, that's a stone wall... I meant something made from bricks. Maybe I'm the one who needs help, from a history teacher.

+2 for replying to other member's welcome posts.

Pete

[madscijr]

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 aboard Marco! You have come to the right place to learn about QB64 / QB64PE and discuss interesting topics with some fun folks. Feel free to share your questions, ideas & experiments, and we will do our best to help you on your QB journey

[eoredson]

Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall to earth faster than light objects. All the lemmings parroted that same wrong notion for centuries, until finally, one Isaac Newton said, "BS!" And he demonstrated the flaw in the previous "common wisdom." Not just that, he provided everyone with a verifiable set of physics equations, so anyone can confirm what Newton claims, with math and also with experiments.

No need to "just believe."

An example of why my personal reaction to philosophy always boils down to this:

"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, sounds like a personal opinion."

(But yes, even I can enjoy the clever turns of phrase some philosophers come up with.)

Aristotle wrote many treaties (far too many one might argue) on very different topics. His influence in Logic has been extensive, in some other aspects, like Physics, things have changed radically from his time, but I dare say that things have changed since Newton's time as well. Of the three philosophers I mentioned Mill dealt a lot with political/economical issues, for example, and of course one may say that there is no "hard science" of politics and of the so called "social sciences" (which of course is true), but nonetheless even human behavior shows regularities, correlations and so on, which make it possible to undertake some kind of rational, if not of scientific (in the narrow sense), investigation of it, I think. Even programming a computer, I would say, is an exact science only to a certain degree   (but here I'm speaking strictly for myself)

Welcome aboard! I aced deductive logic in college which included propositional logic and predicate logic..

To say to this day I read the complete work of Plato and some Friedrich Nietzsche.

What I like to quote is "I think, therefore I am."

Erik.

[SMcNeill]

What I like to quote is "I think, therefore I am."

I've always been of the opposite philosophy -- "I am, therefore I think."

[bplus]

"I am", I think.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

I do not think therefore I do not am