I'm sorry you feel that way. Honestly, I'm really trying to answer your questions, not to attack you.

You're right. Your behaviour here has been pretty distasteful.

Nobody here has any reason to try to help you, yet still they've been trying to. Then you turn around and act like a spoiled child because things aren't working the way you want them to.

Try coming back when you've grown up.

Except that nobody posted anything that could be considered grumpy. He's just being petulant.

I've just worked 12 hours in a row doing customer service where I've had to be nice and polite to rude, entitled people. I'm not going to be nice now if I don't have to.

You probably would even get a better response by posting the source code. Putting things on GitHub is a great way to do that. For example, I don't even run Windows, and even if I did I wouldn't really want to run an executable file just based on an anonymous person's word.

The two most common reasons people don't post source code to their games, other than they didn't think about it, are:

• I'm embarrassed. Guess what? Nobody cares. The reality is almost nobody is going to even bother taking a close look. Even then, the best way to learn is to show people your code and let them point out better ways to do things.

  
  

• Somebody will steal it. Guess what? It's not good enough to be stolen. And even if they do steal a clever portion of it, then you should be proud & happy that something you did was useful.

(This advice is with regard to getting people to run games you make.)

Who am I? My name is Michael Sherwin. In January of 2006 I released RomiChess open source with Reinforcement Learning. RomiChess was the first successful learning chess engine that actually gained playing strength the more games it played. About six years later DeepMind included RL in a Go engine and then a chess engine called AlphaZero. Then DeepMind was sold to Google for half a billion dollars. Then a variation of the DM AI was named AlphaFold. AlphaFold helped produce the Cov-19 vaccine in record time. Also in 2006 I suggested that Intel/AMD make new instructions that gather bits under a mask to the lower order bits. And another to expand them back out. They did about three years later which is the development time from concept to production. If one has a modern processor they have those instructions. Another invention of mine that one is probably not aware of yet is using split indexes to point to supersets of data that when and together gives the correct data. Imagine the difference in storage requirements if using two 16 bit indexes to retrieve data rather than one 32 bit index. There was a fourth invention but for some reason it isn't coming to me right now. The world is a far different place because of what I have done and I gave it away all free. I have not made a penny off of any of it.

Maybe someone will do me a favor and try my game?

Sure, I do that sometimes, too, for brevity, I, ...

Nope, you're doing it wrong.

"You might be a brilliant inventor, developer, and problem solver, but man do you come across as a self entitled dick

You really seem to lack interpersonal skills.

That wasn't who you are, that was a highlight of your personal accomplishments.

Who am I? I made a Gui api in 2011 that was used in a game you might have played that sold, oh I don't know, several million copies? It goes by the name Factorio. This gui api was also used in my open source Spades game, which, by the way had some of the best visuals in any Spades game. I worked 4 years on that game, and 1 year on that gui api, and supported it for years. The world is a far different place because of what I have done and I gave it away all free. I have not made a penny off of any of it.

Maybe someone will do me a favor and compile and try my open source spades game? "

Sorry, never heard of any of that! And sorry again if I made you feel inadequate that you had to go through all that. Maybe you should seek professional counseling. If you want me to be a dick I'll be a dick. And I'll be a bigger dick than what you have ... to dish out.

No, all I did was ask a simple question and I started getting dumped on so maybe I did become a little dickish.

And by the way I'm out of here.

ZYZZYVA

Glad to see allegro.cc is back, baby!!

kingnoob/Michael:

Let me recommend that you take the time to consider a change in attitude that may smooth over your future interactions with humans:

Assume the best in others until they prove otherwise.

I believe that this thread is clearly an overreaction to all of us regulars of the site. Whether you're trolling or genuinely upset is irrelevant here. Things are pretty slow around here these days so pushing a troll around is as good as any other activity. But if you're genuinely trying to get help then you're going about it all wrong.

You shouldn't assume your "fame" precedes you. It doesn't. I had to Google you, and it wasn't even easy to do. You're famous in a chess "subculture" perhaps. Wikipedia doesn't even seem to know who you are, and I think that's the lowest bar there is for fame.

Your claims are unsubstantiated, but also irrelevant. The advice you've been given was correct, and the best advice that you could have been given. That you didn't appreciate it doesn't matter.

Most of us are middle-aged or older around here. Most of us even managed to get real lives. They take up a lot of time though. I don't recommend them. In any case, many of us don't even have Allegro installed anymore. We're too busy to do this niche of hobby programming at this point in our lives. At least, that's my reasoning. Everybody will have their own reasoning. I installed Allegro for KrampusHack2020 in December, but before that it was probably at least a year since I had installed it.

Giving me an executable without dependencies is a chore at best. I wouldn't even go to that much trouble for free porn unless I knew it was going to be worth it first. It's likely that your game actually depends on a specific build of Allegro and a compatible runtime from the toolchain. Rather than making every one of your users go to the trouble of figuring out what they need, locating it, installing it, and setting up a runtime environment to actually run your game, wouldn't it make a whole fucking lot more sense for you to just include that in your distribution yourself?

I am also very wary of executing binary code from untrusted sources. I don't know you. I don't trust you. I'm not just going to run your code without either building it myself from source or at least a well established public image to ruin in the event of abuse, etc. I've gotten to know people from this community for more than a decade and many of them I still think twice before running their binaries.

If that's too much trouble for you then great. Go fuck off and don't bother.

If you want to start over, that's still possible. But if you are sincere in the future I suggest assuming the best of intentions of strangers until they prove otherwise. Don't assume that people are being abusive just because they're critical of your work. Assume that they know what they're talking about (why else would you want their attention?) and they know how to help you help them help you. That's ultimately what this community is about. Helping each other succeed.

Before you go, would you tell us who you voted for and why?

In the beginning I also asked questions here which some of the other members answered with links to 'let me google that for you', for example. I simply ignore those things especially because most of the other members here gave me competent and helpful hints and advices.

But some people are just too sniveling, I suppose.

Reading this thread has been a distasteful experience indeed, the title did not over-promise.