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User:Delos

2007-07-29T19:47:13Z

Delos:

== Delos ==

== Who is Delos ==

Delos is a Moderator on [[CompSci.ca]] and mainly frequents the [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/index.php?c=3 Turing Forums], [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewforum.php?f=19 Off Topic], and [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewforum.php?f=1 General Discussion] among others. He is known for his extensive knowledge of [[Turing]], scrupulous moderation, and love for words of archaic origin.
Delos is currently enrolled in the Honours Biology and Psychology Programme at [[McMaster University]].

== The Elegiac Mod ==

Delos was voted into Moderation in mid-June 2005. The exact date is now lost to the unrecorded annals of [[CompSci.ca]] due to the frequent Roll-backs of the time. The title of ''Elegiac Mod'' is derived from the word ''Elegy'', which is a form of poetry, though in this case is used to refer to poetry in general.
Delos writes a fair bit of poetry.

== Graphical Programming ==

Delos stormed into [[CompSci.ca]] with the original [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3268 Lens Filter] programme. This soon evolved into a [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3316 V2] and finally a [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=43912 V3]. All were met with great approval by the community. This programme manipulated images, filtering them into different colour schemes. Newer versions also supported highlighting of specific colours.

Continuing his endeavours in graphics programmes (in Turing), Delos released [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=56784 PicMerge]. This programme again gained wide notoriety due to its incorporation of a pseudo-alpha channel, before unheard of in Turing.

Both these projects incorporated Turing's native 256-colour palette and hence were severely limited in their ability to produce realistic images. Delos has plans to someday improve upon these using more advanced methods, and likely a better language like [[Ruby]].

== Candle Sparks ==

One of Delos' largest projects was the database system [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=89745 Candle Sparks]. Created initially for personal use, it was released to the community amid - well, not much really. There simply was not much interest in this application, however well coded it was.
The programme serves primarily as a reminder for birthdays (or other annual events). Its main component can show and sort through the existing database, as well as add, delete, or edit entries. A secondary component also exists that runs on start-up listing upcoming birthdays.

== The Current Project ==

Delos' signature has for many months now held a counter showing his progress in what has only been named as 'Current Project'. It is unknown what the true nature of this is, though some speculate that it has to do with a revolutionary new way of rendering 4D environments in under 128kB. More likely though, it's a game made in Turing.
No one knows if it will ever be released or even finished, mainly since Delos has close to no free time anymore due to his educational commitments.

User:Delos

2006-10-09T21:08:14Z

Delos:

== Delos ==

== Who is Delos ==

Delos is a Moderator on [[CompSci.ca]] and mainly frequents the [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/index.php?c=3 Turing Forums], [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewforum.php?f=19 Off Topic], and [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewforum.php?f=1 General Discussion] among others. He is known for his extensive knowledge of [[Turing]], scrupulous moderation, and love for words of archaic origin.
Delos is currently enrolled in the Honours Biology and Psychology Programme at [[McMaster University]].

== The Elegiac Mod ==

Delos was voted into Moderation in mid-June 2005. The exact date is now lost to the unrecorded annals of [[CompSci.ca]] due to the frequent Roll-backs of the time. The title of ''Elegiac Mod'' is derived from the word ''Elegy'', which is a form of poetry, though in this case is used to refer to poetry in general.
Delos writes a fair bit of poetry.

== Graphical Programming ==

Delos stormed into [[CompSci.ca]] with the original [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3268 Lens Filter] programme. This soon evolved into a [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3316 V2] and finally a [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=43912 V3]. All were met with great approval by the community. This programme manipulated images, filtering them into different colour schemes. Newer versions also supported highlighting of specific colours.

Continuing his endeavours in graphics programmes (in Turing), Delos released [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=56784 PicMerge]. This programme again gained wide noteriety due to its incorporation of a pseudo-alpha channel, before unheard of in Turing.

Both these projects incorporated Turing's native 256-colour palette and hence were severely limited in their ability to produce realistic images. Delos has plans to someday improve upon these using more advanced methods, and likely a better language like [[Ruby]].

== Candle Sparks ==

One Delos' largest projects was the database system [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=89745 Candle Sparks]. Created initially for personal use, it was released to the community amid - well, not much really. There simply was not much interest in this application, however well coded it was.
The programme serves primarily as a reminder for birthdays (or other annual events). Its main component can show and sort through the existing database, as well as add, delete, or edit entries. A secondary component also exists that runs on start-up listing upcoming birthdays.

== The Current Project ==

Delos' signature has for many months now held a counter showing his progress in what has only been named as 'Current Project'. It is unknown what the true nature of this is, though some speculate that it has to do with a revolutionary new way of rendering 4D environments in under 128kB. More likely though, it's a game made in Turing.
No one knows if it will ever be released or even finished, mainly since Delos has close to no free time anymore due to his educational commitments.

Evasive Maneuvers

2006-10-09T20:43:43Z

Delos:

== Evasive Maneuvers ==
Evasive Maneuvers is a spaceship fighter game, writen in [[Turing]] by [[Mazer]] (previously known as Coutsos, previously known as Mazer). It is considered to be one of the best games ever made in Turing, with [[Forces]] as the only comparison.

== More about EM ==
[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=1281|The original discussion] on the forums

The post was originally made in June of 2003 the day after Mazer handed it in to his Computer Science teacher as his final project and had to let it go. After an initial reaction of confusion by the community, Mazer realised that some instructions would be necessary for those not already familiar with [[the]] game's interface (Evasive Maneuvers often attracted a small group of regular players to the computer lab each day at lunchtime during it's creation), and the game seemed to be fairly well received.

Or too well received? On numerous occassions Mazer was asked for the source code to the game, and while he had no great dislike for open source software there was still the concern of abuse and plagiarism by lazy highschool students. After becoming quite fed up with these requests and the constant reviving of the topic from several pages back, Mazer (a moderator at this point) decided to put an end the madness and lock the topic.

Afterwards, Mazer chose to unlock the topic, for unkown reasons. For a time it lay in peace in the depths of time, until one day somebody brought it back up. It was locked again, and this time [[the]] topic's name was disguised. For a time, the topic was actually called "Marvel vs Capcom (Ryu/Strider Hiryu owns your mothers)" which reflected Mazer's new hobby of playing Marvel vs Capcom with MAME during his CS class and his self-identification with the mentioned characters. Some time afterwards, Mazer received a private message from a user about getting the source code. In response, Mazer said some mildly rude and regretful things, and began to seek greater protection of [[the]] thread's rest.

It was around this time that Mazer had come across an old Japanese film called "[[Zatoichi]]" and was somehow inspired to write about it. Using all of the bad spelling, grammar, and punctuation he could muster, he edited the original post for Evasive Maneuvers to a description of the movie, as though written by an AOLer, finishing with what appears to be a [[noob]]'s assumption that he's about to receive help with a programming assignment.

The subject now reads "LOL, have you guys ever watched "Zatoichi"???!121!".

== Download ==
[http://users.mnsi.net/~mdss/Evasive_Maneuvers.zip mirror 1]
[http://www.compsci.ca/userfiles/Evasive_Maneuvers.zip mirror 2]

== Screenshots ==
[[Image:Em_intro.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Main menu]]
[[Image:Em_ships.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Ship selection, there are also custom models available]]
[[Image:Em_upgrades.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Players earn points from games, and can upgrade their vessels]]
[[Image:Em_fight1.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Shields and lock-on animations]]
[[Image:Em_fight2.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Locked-on. Fire!]]
[[Image:Em_fight3.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Boost and special abilities]]
[[Image:Em_fight4.jpg|thumb|150px|left|kaBOOM]]
[[Image:Em_fight5.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Fun messages]]
[[Image:Em_fight6.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Dan with a comeback]]

Wtd's infinite wisdom

2006-10-09T20:41:02Z

Delos:

Often, [[wtd]] knows the answer to any question thrown at him. Even about things he detests, such as [[Java]], he knows more about than you or I. He can be often found in the irc channel helping someone or showing someone some crazy things in [[O'Caml]] or [[Ruby]], even Scala or SML! (an idea for a poem :))

User:Delos

2006-08-30T15:42:59Z

Delos: