Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Back to Basics

You have to start somewhere. :)

My weapon of choice for the first stage of this experiment is MS Visual C++ 6.0.  I bought it years ago while at the University of New Brunswick and I'm pretty sure the only thing I've ever compiled with it was a LAME MP3 encoder DLL.

In a way, it feels weird going back as far as compile the programming-standard "Hello, world!" to start with, but if I want to do this right then I'll start at square one and re-acquaint myself with all of the nuances of programming.

From here, I intend to develop a small program which will read in and parse index.dat from the EHM /database files, then output the data to verify the correct values were read in.

One step at a time...

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