About 2 years ago or so I got the flatshade polygonal 1st person perspective bug.
I was absolutely dying to make a World War II flightsimulator for System 6 Macintosh computers .
"mu0n" -- a contributor here & a moderator at "Macintosh Garden" -- was so kind to email me a
PDF of what amounted to "C++ For Dummies" lol
It's written in an extremely easy-to-understand way but for wahtever reason I just never got around ta reading it
and kept it in storage.
Thinking I could get someone to do it for me -- while I act as the "Creative Director", if you will -- I asked around
looking for a System 6 programmer.
I came across one -- I forget where -- who identified himself to me as being named "Tim Novak" from Calgary.
We corresponded back & forth for awhile and finally came to a agreed upon price of $1500 for a year's + work.
I didn't think anyhting of it since I wanted this project
so badly ....
That was in February 2006.
Not wanting to be a pest I kept the "How's It Coming Along ?" emails to about 2 a month or so.
I'd get a response every once in awhile but with no physical results -- like a screenshot, a layout : something like that.
Then the emails stopped coming.
I took that to mean he was really getting into it, would assume I'd think
"No News Is Good News" and the game was taking substantial shape.
After what I thought was a reasonable amount of time -- August 2007 -- I sent him an email but didn't get anything back.
I figured Canada's kinda/sorta like Europe so maybe he was taking August off like they do there.
While I was waiting for September to arrive I checked the Calgary phonebook for a "Tim Novak".
There isn't one listed.
There's a T. Novak but when I called the number a girl answered.
Then what'd been in the back of my mind but I guess I wasn't willing to accept was that I'd just gotten burned.
When I Western Union-ed the money I got an email confirming receipt so whoever this person is is in Calgary
but I can only assume is using an assumed identity
I'm not destitute but I'm no Warren Buffett either.
$1500 represents to me a substantial financial hit.
It took me a bit to get over the utter embarrassment & shame and mention it here.
To everyone who was behind me & was looking forward to a "System 6" flatshade polygonal World War II flightsimulator
that at least halfway lived up to the hype, I profoundly apologize.
I guess now I'll hafta read the PDF after all.
It's here just in case anyone's interested > "Beginner's Macintosh Assembly" -- It's A .BIN
Thanks For Listening
:b&w:
I was absolutely dying to make a World War II flightsimulator for System 6 Macintosh computers .
"mu0n" -- a contributor here & a moderator at "Macintosh Garden" -- was so kind to email me a
PDF of what amounted to "C++ For Dummies" lol
It's written in an extremely easy-to-understand way but for wahtever reason I just never got around ta reading it
and kept it in storage.
Thinking I could get someone to do it for me -- while I act as the "Creative Director", if you will -- I asked around
looking for a System 6 programmer.
I came across one -- I forget where -- who identified himself to me as being named "Tim Novak" from Calgary.
We corresponded back & forth for awhile and finally came to a agreed upon price of $1500 for a year's + work.
I didn't think anyhting of it since I wanted this project
so badly ....
That was in February 2006.
Not wanting to be a pest I kept the "How's It Coming Along ?" emails to about 2 a month or so.
I'd get a response every once in awhile but with no physical results -- like a screenshot, a layout : something like that.
Then the emails stopped coming.
I took that to mean he was really getting into it, would assume I'd think
"No News Is Good News" and the game was taking substantial shape.
After what I thought was a reasonable amount of time -- August 2007 -- I sent him an email but didn't get anything back.
I figured Canada's kinda/sorta like Europe so maybe he was taking August off like they do there.
While I was waiting for September to arrive I checked the Calgary phonebook for a "Tim Novak".
There isn't one listed.
There's a T. Novak but when I called the number a girl answered.
Then what'd been in the back of my mind but I guess I wasn't willing to accept was that I'd just gotten burned.
When I Western Union-ed the money I got an email confirming receipt so whoever this person is is in Calgary
but I can only assume is using an assumed identity
I'm not destitute but I'm no Warren Buffett either.
$1500 represents to me a substantial financial hit.
It took me a bit to get over the utter embarrassment & shame and mention it here.
To everyone who was behind me & was looking forward to a "System 6" flatshade polygonal World War II flightsimulator
that at least halfway lived up to the hype, I profoundly apologize.
I guess now I'll hafta read the PDF after all.
It's here just in case anyone's interested > "Beginner's Macintosh Assembly" -- It's A .BIN
Thanks For Listening
:b&w: