[BTB]

So, for anyone who's been in chat at all in the last few weeks or has me added as a friend on Facebook may be vaguely aware of by now, I've been working on a little script that emulates a television schedule. I have since significantly streamlined the code thanks to a suggestion made by someone on another forum forum that I visit (which is nowhere near as good as this place - <3 you guys) , as well as reworked it into a format that is much more user-friendly.

I then wrote a tutorial on setting up your very own DOSFlix channel that reduces the requirements for making one down from the willingness to sift through code and mess with it to "20 minutes of free time and the ability to follow basic instructions".

If anyone would like to guinea pig it for me and let me know what the results are, it would be greatly appreciated:

DOSFlix Tutorial - Basic
DOSFlix Tutorial - Advanced

[Lockirby2]

Checking it out now. I'll edit or post with results in a bit, hopefully.

[BTB]

Just noticed a small error in the first part of the debugger:

echo %bork% - %hurr%

The %hurr% needs to be removed since, for the purposes of the tutorial, Hurr will be undefined if you end up there (and so the window will crash).

I've updated the link on my site.

[BTB]

Working on the advanced tutorial now... seriously beginning to question whether or not anyone is actually going to read this and/or make any sense of it whatsoever.

[BTB]

DOSFlix Advanced Tutorial

Now to see if anyone actually reads the damn thing...

[Bishop]

BTB, on 27 January 2016 - 04:35 PM, said:

• Create an interface to view and adjust/randomize/reset the next episode of shows that play in order
• Weight random selections more or less heavily towards certain outcomes
• Option to always continue to the next part of a multi-part episode (instead of to another program)
• Option to have certain programs sometimes (or always) lead directly into certain other programs
• Create fixed schedules with randomized branching paths

Your tutorial would benefit from a simple "What's DOSFlix?" I have some friends who would probably think this is neat, but who can't be bothered to read a paragraph of text unless they've already been convinced that this has been missing from their lives.

ETA: Have you considered putting this on GitHub or the like?

[BTB]

Bishop, on 28 January 2016 - 05:21 PM, said:

Your tutorial would benefit from a simple "What's DOSFlix?" I have some friends who would probably think this is neat, but who can't be bothered to read a paragraph of text unless they've already been convinced that this has been missing from their lives.

The basic tutorial sort of does that. What you posted was from the advanced one.

Bishop, on 28 January 2016 - 05:21 PM, said:

ETA: Have you considered putting this on GitHub or the like?

What's GitHub?

[Advent]

BTB, on 28 January 2016 - 06:20 PM, said:

What's GitHub?

I was surprised, but I guess you wouldn't really know about it since you're not really a programmer. GitHub is sort of like a centralized platform for programs, where you can just push your latest update to the site instead of saving it, compressing it, uploading it, etc.

Abyssonym uses it for some of his randomizers, and tons of other people use it as well. The only reason I don't is because I don't write that many programs and to be quite honest I haven't bothered to learn how to use it.

Edit: And by programs, I mean scripts as well.

This post has been edited by Advent: 29 January 2016 - 10:45 AM

[BTB]

I may look into it when I get off shift, then. Thanks.