I've joined a programming group who is making an RPG called Shadow Incarnate. It looks promising so far. It's going to be like Secret of Mana. When the page is up, here is the link.

Project Eco has restarted, and I've quit. But don't let that stop you from joining. Good luck if you can even find the page though. They have a new page called The 85 page, but the last time I tried to access it, it messed up royally. The old site is still intact however, so if you want to seek them, go to the site. They've got a new release out called Toowhack, which I enjoyed it. It's got the music to Final Fantasy 7 in the background and shows a few important looking characters whacking each other to death.

I love programming. Ever since I played my first Nintendo Game in third grade, The Legend of Zelda for Nintendo, I've ever aspired to replicate the awesome graphics, music, and sound. I'm now developing a Role-Playing Game called the Magic Adventure. I'm using C++ to program it. Other languages I know are Pascal, HyperTalk, Logo, Basic, HTML, a little JavaScript.
I've programmed some cool games for Pascal which involve only mouse user interaction. The games are BattleShip and GoMoku. For HyperTalk a good walking program I made in black and white. That's the problem I see with HyperCard: color is too difficult and synthetic. Thus I started to learn C. 
I'm now learning JavaScript and PERL. I'm finding it difficult to program PERL and CGI scripts but I am learning stuff about Forms and so forth. Here's the field you can adjust: 

I recommend you don't put the number too large or it'll take a long time to load. At about 4,996 NetScape pauses it, comments on its length, and gives you an option as to whether to continue or not. At the moment, this cgi script doesn't work, but the JavaScript link above does. I'll try to fix it. I want a way to store the data into a cookie or something and after I read it on the next page delete it so the default is 100 again. Seems a bit hard, but I'm not sure whether I need cgi or not for it. Hmmmm...

I'm Learning some CGI for a web development job, so I'll try to share as much wisdom as I can (and not to mention fix the above script).

CGI Tutorial

The following CGI information is taken from TIAC's site, but I think it's mostly true in general for all CGI servers.

 
 

TOC

What is CGI?
What to do to publish a CGI script
Perl Resources
CGI Resources
Changing a file's permission through FTP

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What is CGI?

A CGI script is a way of extending what you can do with the web. Many of the more interactive

World Wide Web sites make use of CGI scripts to take data from the browser, send it to the server

where it can be manipulated, and then do something with the output.

For example, you could use a CGI script if you wanted to have a form search through a database

or Email its output to someone. You can also use a CGI script to dress up your page with things like

counters.

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, which is a specification for how information is

exchanged between client browsers and http servers. The CGI specification includes many

environment variables. TIACs servers are compliant with CGI v.1.1, but have disabled

environment variables for REMOTE_HOST, REMOTE_IDENT, and various others.

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Once your script is written, here's what to do to run it on your web site:

   1.Save it for Unix format in an HTML editor such as BBedit or HotDog. This is , as the most

     common cause of script errors is the inclusion of CRLFs (carriage return line feeds) that result

     from editing scripts in DOS/Windows/Mac based text editors. Saving in Unix format prevents

     CRLFs.

   2.Give the file a .cgi extension so the server knows to execute it.

   3.Upload the script to your home directory (or a subdirectory of your home directory) NOTE:

     you don't need to put scripts into a "cgi-bin" directory for them to be executable. If the

     script is in PERL, upload it as ACSII Plain Text! This is extremely important! Binary uploads of

     ASCII files result in corrupted scripts that will not run, even tho their syntax may be

     completely correct.

   4.Change the permissions on the file to 755 so that it's executable. If you don't know how to

     do this, you can find out here.

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To learn more about PERL, check the books.

Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz

Programming Perl by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz.

Both are published by O'Reilly & Associates

You can also look at http://www.perl.com.

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The following references provide additional information on CGI scripting and advanced web site

development:

     The World Wide Web Developers Virtual Library

     The Inter-Net

     Webreference.com

     The VRML Forum

     ASCII Character Table (nifty!)

     Tools for WWW Scripting

     Gamelan (java)

     Selena Sol's Script Archive

     Hagan Heller's HTML Tutorial

     Using Server Push/Client Pull

     Unix Commands

     The CGI Collection

     Build a Homepage

     comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi

     The NCSA CGI page

     Yahoo's CGI page.

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How do I change file permissions thru FTP?

Unix file permissions specify how a file can be used. The permissions settings are given in three classes --

owner, group, and world. A file's owner can specify the level of file protection for each of these groups. The

numerical file protection levels are:

   1.executable

   2.writable

   3.readable

   4.read and executable

   5.read and writable

   6.read, write, and executable

In a directory listing, these protection levels are given in a format that looks like this:

-rwxr-xr--

The file in the example above has permissions of 754, means that the owner has read/write/execute ability,

the group as read/execute, and the world has read-only.

The Unix chmod command can be executed thru most ftp clients. Here are instructions for using some of the

most popular ones.

WS_FTP (Windows 95, 3.1 and NT)

     click with the right mouse button on the file listing, then pick ftp commands from the menu and site

     from the sub-menu. When it asks you for a command, type:

     chmod thepermissionsyouwant yourfile.whatever

FTP (Unix,Linux or any text based ftp client on Mac or windows)

     type this line

     quote site thepermissionsyouwant yourfile.whatever

Fetch(Mac)

     Go to the the Remote Menu and choose Send FTP Command in the box type.

     site chmod thepermissionsyouwant yourfile.whatever

CuteFTP(Windows31)

     Go to the Commands menu, select Custom Commands and click on Change Files Access Mask.

     In the box type:

     thepermissionsyouwant yourfile.whatever

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