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  • N Nagy Vilmos

    Aunty[^]:

    A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

    Can you do better? Or bitter?

    Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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    Colin Eberhardt
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    That's nothing compared to the Excel version of PacMan that was doing the round a few years ago: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/[^] Words cannot describe just how awesome that is!

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    • R Rage

      ... This is even more difficult since it VS crashes several times a day and you have to restart the game from the last checkpoint...

      ~RaGE();

      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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      c2423
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      I'm also pretty sure the game AI cheats to beat you.

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        I'm also pretty sure the game AI cheats to beat you.

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        Rage
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        Yeah, it is named Intellisense.

        ~RaGE();

        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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        • R Rage

          Tried it - crashed after I met the first enemy.* Sums it up pretty accurately : Accountants are all good and nice until the first trouble arise. *Have a german version of Excel. I doubt any American MBA candidate accountant thought about localization - at least these makes three reasons why they would not.

          ~RaGE();

          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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          emartinho
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          Nope. I'm using an English version (Canadian English, maybe that's the problem????? ;p)and it also crashed after the first enemy. Back to the drawing board Mr. Canadian Accountant! :D -EM

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            The Bhai wrote:

            If you do this first time you are not a real programmer.

            Ha ha - my first program ever (literally) compiled and ran correctly the first time. It was FORTRAN, and I summed the numbers from 1 to 10 and printed the result (not that trivial in FORTRAN). Whenever I learn a new language, this is my own personal canonical first program. So I don't ever do "Hello world" you see. Maybe that is why I am a software developer, not a programmer.

            -- Harvey

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            Forogar
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            My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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              My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

              - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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              hairy_hats
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              Print "4"? Do I get my £5?

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              • H hairy_hats

                Print "4"? Do I get my £5?

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                Forogar
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                Wrong! Now you owe me £5.

                - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                • F Forogar

                  My first program ever was written in assembler and worked perfectly the first time. When the results came rattling back over the teletype it consisted of just a single character, "4". Guess what the program did!

                  - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                  H Brydon
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                  It printed the game level you just accomplished!

                  -- Harvey

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                  • E emartinho

                    Nope. I'm using an English version (Canadian English, maybe that's the problem????? ;p)and it also crashed after the first enemy. Back to the drawing board Mr. Canadian Accountant! :D -EM

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                    Chris C B
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                    Are you sure it's a Canadian accountant? Sounds more like a Cypriot one to me... :suss:

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                    • H H Brydon

                      It printed the game level you just accomplished!

                      -- Harvey

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                      Forogar
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                      Game? Game? Programming was serious stuff back in the Bronze Age! We didn't have no stinkin' games!

                      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                      • N Nagy Vilmos

                        Aunty[^]:

                        A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

                        Can you do better? Or bitter?

                        Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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                        dusty_dex
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                        But Pacman has been around for some time in Excel arstechnica.com/gaming/2006 :laugh:

                        "It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.

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                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                          Aunty[^]:

                          A Canadian accountant has managed to create a basic video game using only Excel spreadsheets.

                          Can you do better? Or bitter?

                          Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

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                          Bassam Abdul Baki
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                          You assume he knows how to use Excel. ;P

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