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Title: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: Christian1023 on August 08, 2014, 11:09:34 PM

I think I'm going to start coding an IntelliStar 2 emulator with Visual Studio. I might only share this with people that I trust and people that help me with this project. This might be quite a tricky thing to do since the current IntelliStar has a lot of animations and stuff. If you want to help me I'll appreciate it.  :happy:

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: boyercam on August 09, 2014, 10:54:41 AM

Thats the problem, the intellistar 2 is full of animations, which would be difficult to recreate in Visual Basic

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: Christian1023 on August 09, 2014, 02:33:01 PM

Yeah, and If I keep having trouble making this. I'll probably instead work really hard on an IntelliStar 2 emulator I have on PowerPoint. :p

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: boyercam on August 11, 2014, 07:57:54 AM

The best way of doing this is to make weather data import into powerpoint as you can pre-configure the animations

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: Christian1023 on August 11, 2014, 08:24:11 PM

Oh? How so?

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: curtjr4 on August 12, 2014, 01:05:37 AM

Quote from: boyercam on August 09, 2014, 10:54:41 AM

Thats the problem, the intellistar 2 is full of animations, which would be difficult to recreate in Visual Basic

Nonsense. If you insist on using .NET based languages, then shoot for development under C# and XNA.

If you're like me and dislike proprietary programming languages and unsupported frameworks (XNA is no longer supported or developed by Microsoft), you could develop under Mono and Unity. The nice thing is Mono is essentially the same thing, but while programming with Mono you can port the program to OS X, Linux, and even Android if you really wanted to. This would be the route to go in my opinion.

Always have to remember this... It's not the programming language that caps your possibilities... it's the programmer (not to say that .NET is generally an awful language to do this stuff with due to lack of object/image manipulation, because .NET is seriously awful for graphic intensive applications.). :smoke2:

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: boyercam on August 12, 2014, 01:13:54 PM

I suppose you're right there, But I'm not prepared to learn mono at this time. Especially as I'm busy coding my own emulator in VB right now.

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: curtjr4 on August 12, 2014, 04:28:21 PM

Quote from: boyercam on August 12, 2014, 01:13:54 PM

I suppose you're right there, But I'm not prepared to learn mono at this time. Especially as I'm busy coding my own emulator in VB right now.

Mono is Visual Basic. The difference is when you code under Mono you can guarantee that your application will run on Windows, OS X, Linux, and others.

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: boyercam on August 13, 2014, 09:04:20 AM

Oh, I'll do some research into it  :thinking:

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: AvidSurvivalist on November 04, 2014, 09:16:28 AM

Does anyone know of an existing IntelliStar 2 HD emulator? I would love to find one.

Title: Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
Post by: boyercam on November 06, 2014, 12:05:00 PM

No, there isn't right now apart from Powerpoints