HYDRA Video Demo Reel 1.0

[TIM1TULIAG]

hydra?

wat it is?

[orangetide]

Hydra is a game development system built around Parallax Inc's 8-core 32-bit low cost microcontroller.

[garrettanderson983]

hey, you guys ripped 200$ off of me!!! the hydra just restarts every 3 seconds for no reason!!! i cant find any support!!! what the hell is going on?

[orangetide]

I don't work for them. Try contacting the company you bought it from.

[gonepishing]

cool! looks really hard to code that stuff. I wish I could code, I have time for stuff like that (would be fun)

[fuzzywzhe]

Coding is simple, what's difficult it identifying the million steps you need to do in order to perform an action.

[gonepishing]

funny, Since I posted that comment, I have learned turing and and now learning visual basic...

I also have a wonderfull book called C++ for dummies I intend to read

[fuzzywzhe]

I highly recommend that when you get better, download vmware server, install PCLinuxOS under it, and start playing with GCC then glut and opengl.

Learning C/C++ is very important to understand what is actually going on in the computer. Visual Basic is fine for logic, but it obscures everything that is going on under the hood.

Once you under C and C++, it's easy to learn any other language, since they are just simplifications.

[gonepishing]

awesome, C++ seems to be the right one to plan to learn then are you a programmer?

[fuzzywzhe]

> awesome, C++ seems to be the right one to plan

> to learn then

>

> are you a programmer?

I'm an electrical engineer but I spent most of my time writing software, just like most engineers.

Programming is a tool for me. Half of my job is writing tools to automate my job.

I would also suggest learning assembly language, but assembly is a totally unstructured language. You (shouldn't) program C like assembly.

[gonepishing]

cool

[ANARCHYdashTVdotCOM]

C++ is old bullshit for its ridiculous braces, obscene overuse of handles, and lack of support for strings or garbage colelction. learn python instead, its at least sane, using tab indents instead having your code peppered with ugly brackets everywhere.

[fuzzywzhe]

Somebody telling me C/C++ is "old bullshit" is simply telling me they don't really work professionally as an engineer.

Python runs as an interpreter. It's utterly unsuitable for the work I'm required to do for that reason alone.  You don't understand low level hardware.

[radexx]

mmh, they probably use a cog for generating graphics, other for sound, another for I/O, one more for the game itself and synchronize them in some way, but if it's the case, there are still 5 cogs available!!, still amazing!

[mrmjpeg01]

COOL! How many cogs were required to do the various games? If one cog could do it (I'd be amazed if this was the case) my understanding of the Propeller is that you could have 6(Spin) or 7(assembly) other games running simultaneously WITH simultaneous video output. That's AMAZING!