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Happy birthday, Adeel! I will reply to your PM soon.

Police Academy

Damn. I had this game when I was young and I've been searching for it for some time. Unfortunately, I didn't remember the name, but I could've told you it was shareware before it was mentioned in the thread. I did a reverse Google image search and found it, but just wanted to say thanks for helping me find this classic.

PC Globe? (Communism vs. Capitalism Edition)

SiN?

Also, happy belated birthday to Canada.

Thanks Adeel, Mandle, Anas and SinSin for the birthday wishes! I had a fantastic day... at work

Oh well. Can't take the day off every year. Well, I guess you can, but I want to save annual leave for bulk AGS-ing.

Anyway, work bought me cake, so it wasn't that bad.

Yes! Yayyyy.

No. PC title with super rad artwork:

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/HyMYJuG.png[/imgzoom]

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/Q8uLXBV.png[/imgzoom]

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/8JtYTRm.png[/imgzoom]

Ummm... I don't know. Toggle "game select"?

Try this one:

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/Mh9eNNB.png[/imgzoom]

Adventure (for the 2600)

Limbo of the Lost

I think this is Blade Runner.

Damn, so quick! Yes, it's Who Shot Johnny Rock.

You going to take a turn now?

Who remembers this one?

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/6KyMHyp.png[/imgzoom]

Happy birthday, Stupot+. Hope it's been a + day and not a - one.

The Other Side of Midnight?

But I know a lot of members who have an UNbirthday today!

A very merry unbirthday to Mandle (and everybody else).

I think we want to eventually have some kind of polymorphism or type coercion for AGS proper. i.e. A Maths.Abs() that would support both floats and ints. For now, I think this is a good approach.

This library might also work as a good study reference or just time-tested implementations of common methods. I am not sure what your intention was though, Monkey. Was this just to fill gaps in the existing library or to be more of a supplemental library with slightly less general use things?

Whatever the case, there's Clamp, which is common for graphics stuff:

Code: ags

// Clamp a number to a specified range
float Maths::Clamp(float value, float minimum, float maximum);
int Maths::ClampInt(int value, int minimum, int maximum);

If you are taking further suggestions, here are some not-so-common ones I use:

Code: ags

// Find the distance between two points (a^2 + b^2 = c^2)
float Maths::DistanceBetween(float x1, float y1, float x2, float y2);
int Maths::DistanceBetweenInt(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2);

// Find whether two ranges intersect (startA <= stopB and stopA >= startB)
// I put this in a method because it's annoying to have to work from the proof each time to get the right conditions
bool Maths::Intersects(float startA, float stopA, float startB, float stopB);
bool Maths::IntersectsInt(int startA, int stopA, int startB, int stopB);

// Return true if a given probability succeeds
// This is probably the best candidate for a library, as it's a standard form
bool Maths::Chance(float p); // p = 0.5 is a coin flip
// I actually use something like this because it's easy to read as "Chance(1, 20) => chance 1 in 20" and the default is a percentage
bool Maths::Chance(int numerator, int denominator = 100);

If this is a shared library, for something like Chance, it might be better to see which one people prefer.

Yes, happy birthday, Icey!