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Okay I've thought about everyone's replies and I think I'm going to go with ordinary shareware, and perhaps selling the source code on top of that. Now I just have to write the thing.

I might give away my asteroids game if I can find the time to convert it to PB (BB2D has Data Execution Prevention ...

Kaeru Gaman wrote:

veganisafreak wrote:I thought you were just some devout Christian or something...

LOL.. not at all.. I'm an emancipated Taoist...

I would start eagerly discussing your emancipated Taoism (which must be very fun for you) but the forum rules lol

Kaeru Gaman wrote:ermn... that was somewhere in the triangle irony/sarcasm/cynicism

Oh LOL, I thought you were just some devout Christian or something...

and the love of money is the root of all evil, so spread your software for free...


That's all very well, but I have this image of myself in 5 years, homeless, thinking "****, I wish I'd made people pay for my software..."

PB, thanks, that is interesting reading. I never knew open source got ...

The answer to that is simple: You charge a premium for the source code.

That's an interesting idea I hadn't thought of. It still seems kinda like dominating people though...


All software is as moral as its authors. I've seen open-source software that
spams its users and steals their money ...

I am really concerned about the moral implications of closed source software. This has been bothering me for a while, after I found out about Sony's Rootkit scandal and various other stuff. Evil EULA's. I got Microsoft's "Free" Visual C++ compiler last year. In the EULA it effectively says that it ...

I thought Vista was pretty cool and got an unfair press... until I installed Ubuntu. I have been totally converted in about 2 weeks. Ubuntu starts quickly without all the hard disk chugging and thrashing that Vista seems to go in for. Vista looks pretty till you've seen compiz fusion. Vista's start ...

Thanks for your help. I decided after all the threadsafe/unicode scare you gave me, lol, just to use a workaround instead. It's not worth the coding effort for something that will probably break in the next version of PB.

I'm not very good with assembly as I've shown in my other posts.

Can someone show me how to call a function IN PURE ASM (windows) that takes a string and returns a string?

I tried looking at the asm output of pb for such a function but it was full of macros and weirdness, I was worried I might ...

I got my PB installed by following the instructions in the INSTALL and README files that came with it. And I'm not a geek. I'm one of those people who like things to "just work" and for me, it did.

But anything that helps even one person is good.

This sunk in over the last couple days. I can't believe I referred to the return address as a mysterious item. What an idiot. I assumed the return address would be higher up the stack somewhere...

Thanks everyone.

Especially freak I was wondering how to get hold of the asm output!

Hey thanks loads it's working now!

It still spits out the errors but they go to the parent console. the "child" console or whatever you call it, is empty apart from my message.

I'm still a little curious what the errors are about tho. Oh well it's not affecting the functionality.

Point taken.

Thanks a lot both of you for the warm welcome. :D

My favourite thing about PB so far is the freedom - it doesn't try to shelter the user from all the pointer/assembly type stuff like BB used to... BB was so restricting... and I took one look at BlitzMax and thought the syntax was a mess - it looked ...