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May 16

Publishing old Amiga game code on GitHub?

I've been thinking about this a lot in the past few days. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was writing some simple games for the Amiga computer in C as a hobby. Although the games developed quite well, I never finished them. My Amiga is long since broken, but I kept the original hard disk and transferred the source code to my current PC. So the code still survives.

I would want to continue development some day, but I haven't touched the code in years and hardly remember how it works. And I don't think I have the time either. So would it be a good idea to publish the code on GitHub for example, to let other people see it and try it out, and perhaps continue development? JIP | Talk 19:35, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JIP, yes, that would be a great idea. One thing to consider is which license you will release it with. Common choices are BSD licenses, GNU General Public License, or Apache License. Those are all free licenses, but some are freer than others. Elizium23 (talk) 19:42, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I have to look into this tomorrow. I don't think this will be an exactly trivial task however. First, a question: How does one go about publishing something in GitHub in the first place? I don't even have a GitHub account. JIP | Talk 19:44, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JIP, you'll need to first create an account on github (which is free), then follow the instructions here to create a local git repository for your code and then upload it to github. CodeTalker (talk) 23:52, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Event Log ?

I probably asked this question a few years ago but will ask it again. Is there a log that Windows 10 writes status records or something to every few minutes or something like that? Sometimes, when I have either gone away or gone to bed, when I get back on the computer, it appears that something has restarted itself. Just out of curiosity, I would like to know exactly when that happened (e.g., was it at 0400 local in the middle of the night). I would also like to know what happened, although that isn't as important, and isn't really that important anyway. So is there either some sort of event log that has periodic events, or some sort of event log that has catastrophic events, or both? (Of course, there are some catastrophic events that can't be logged, such as a power loss, or some Blue Screens of Death.) I am using Windows 10. I am using a Dell Inspiron. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:35, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Start > Windows Administrative Tools > Event Viewer Martin of Sheffield (talk) 22:16, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Martin of Sheffield - Thank you. That tells me more than I wanted, which I thought would be the case. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:58, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are tools to help you avoid the "drinking out of a firehose" experience that is the Windows event log:

https://www.ittsystems.com/best-event-log-analysis-tools/

https://www.netadmintools.com/event-log-analysis-software

--Guy Macon (talk) 02:34, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]