Stream Stress

Posted by biggoron on March 18, 2007, 6:06 a.m.

I managed to zap those viruses (edited to save lives) and delete the 62GB of useless junk they shoved into my Temp folder. Windows didn't make it easy though, protected this and that, so I did it from Linux.

I'm currently making an image compressor and a heightmap generator. The compressor will be designed by Benoit in GM and I'll be C++ifying it. Actually, I don't know yet if he's going to continue working on it yet or not, so I'm just laying down the foundations ready. In either case it was actually a good Win32 learning experience for me and is a good base for a lot of applications.

The heightmap uses a similar technique to the one I uploaded here except it'll be written in C++ to make it faster. The thing is, I'm too lazy to make anything other than a console app, and a console app is usually much larger than a Windows app, which is annoying. Add iostream and fstream and you've pretty much got 200K right there. My compressor app is about 16K. Plus, the Windows GDI is very annoying and difficult to implement correctly into a console app, I find. So, I either continue with my bloated and difficult console app with Windows GDI, use a statically linked Allegro app and have a guaranteed 500K program, or make a windows app which would be prettier but annoying to make; my compressor app does nothing useful and I've spent hours on it already.

The team with which I'm currently affiliated will be making its first project hopefully. We're all very, very lazy and have poor management so it's just a little minigame thing. We each make a minigame and then build it all together into a single game. I'm currently making a snowboarding minigame.

Rogepost.com ~1MB .zip

I spent about 5 seconds implementing the height-checking which is why it doesn't work.

Comments

OL 17 years ago

It's viruses not virii!

aargh

*douses himself in petrol and lights and proceeds to run in circles*

biggoron 17 years ago

Ah, the crazy Asian protest.

shawn 17 years ago

Got sumthin against asians eh? >:(

biggoron 17 years ago

No. It's just a few of 'em seem to spend their time lighting themselves on fire in protest.

flashback 17 years ago

I take it you used KlamAV in MEPIS to clear out the viruses?

biggoron 17 years ago

Yes, then I did a scan with Norton and another scan with AVG Free to make absolutely sure. :)

Pobble-Wobble 16 years, 11 months ago

Benoit = pwn

JoshDreamland 16 years, 11 months ago

biggoron–

XD at the whole thing.

Nice removal.