what?! dbf!

C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NBA LIVE 2005\database\originaldb

nba live uses dbf. how i discover this by happenstance?

this day nirecode ko s visual c++ yung ginawa ko program dati s watcom c++ na pang open ng DBF files. with a few code tweaks, the program seamlessly compiles in visual c++, maybe because i know what functions are standard across different types of c++ compilers :)

nung itetest ko na yung compiled exe ng visual c++. naghanap ako ng dbf file na pagtetestingan. marami na-search ang windows na dbf files under directory ng NBA live.

so, sa DBF files lng pala nakalagay mga player informations, game stats, teams, etc, ng NBA live :D

somehow meron pa rin soft spot sa heart ko DBF files :) it's the first file format i hacked without reading documentation and without searching internet. di pa masyado popular internet noon way back 96, no such thing as google at the time and yahoo just started their initial public offering then.

pag magprogram nga ako ng games, dbf na rin gagamitin ko to store game information :)

aaralin ko uli sabay c# and c++, meron pa rin naman pointers sa c#


tidbits:

watcom c++ comes from powersoft, the same company that create sybase sql and powerbuilder.

sybase sql used to be joint project of microsoft and sybase, they parted ways, microsoft now do their own sql server.

watcom c++ used to be the game developer's programming language of choice when there's no windows 95 and directx yet. watcom c/c++ is a very optimized compiler able to compile 32 bit DOS program using DOS 4GW protected mode


me:

time change, i like to use new and advance tools

"If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, you tend to treat every problem like a nail"



Benjamin Franklin defined man as "the tool-making animal." If he had added the phrase "with foresight," he would have adequately described Homo faber , man the technologist.

Inventiveness was the indispensable condition for the survival of the human species. Without fur or feathers, shell or scale, ancestral man stood naked to the elements. Without fang or claw or tusk to fight his predators, without speed to elude them, without camouflage to deceive them or the ability to take to the trees like his cousin, the ape, man was physically at a hopeless disadvantage. What he developed to deal with his deficiencies was the capacity to invent.

Man possessed not only sensory perceptions (though these were less acute than those of many of his fellow creatures), he also possessed imagination and finger-skills. He did not just improvise to meet an emergency as an ape might in using a broken branch as a weapon. He also saw the need for keeping a club handy -- he planned ahead.


Benjamin Franklin