Hi guys!
Today is the day! Never thought it would get so far, but I registered this account ten years ago today! I was a young, 14-year-old high school guy who still had no idea about anything. But the openness and its attitude towards learning to script really got me. Created my first script after looking at other scripts and copy-pasting some code. Still rememer sitting at the toilet on my PSP, to see @WT-Fakawi; made me instant SRL member, something reserved for only the best scripters. Never think something is inachievable! (And back then SRL Members had a few killer scripts, like Tarajunky's chicken killer and Sumilion's chopper).
A lot has happened since then. I finished high school and had to decide what to major in at university. And there were two logical choices for me: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
@Wizzup?; is personally responsible for making me not study computer science! You finished vwo a bit earlier than me and every time you talked about how you enjoyed it, and what you learnt and did, convinced me not do do it (Geen voorlichtingsdag die daar tegenop kan). So I decide to go into Electrical Engineering, a decision I don't regret! I thoroughly enjoy the field. Got my BSc and in one year I will have my masters degree.
Talking about college, after first dabbling round the more 'traditional' fields (control systems & power electronics), I took a course around 2014 on image analysis aka computer vision. It reminded me of SRL to be honest! Cue three years later and I'm doing double degree biomedical/electrical engineering on medical image analysis. If there was only such a thing like SRL for that kind of stuff! FindObj(x, y, 'cancer') doesn't work that way unfortunately, it isn't as easy as opening the varrock bank.
Few achievements over here I'm still proud of til this day:
- Evil Bob random event solver. It got me SRL Developer and was always regarded as one of the 'impossible' randoms.
- Help kickstarting development of Mufasa, now Simba. Together with Ray and Bullzeye95 (what happened to you?).
Pacoc (PAscal COlor Clicker) never got to the point where it ran scripts for RS, but we got a few things like plugin loading working and crosshair and stuff.
The code isn't used, but Wizzup? and Ray later developed Mufasa, which involved into Simba. We reversed the DTM string format from SCAR for that, something still used to this day.- Invented arguably the best money-making script ever (the old-timers know what I'm talking about).
- Pioneered the {$DEFINE SMART} for enabling SMART. There was some resistance for including it in SRL but everyone know uses it.
Unfortunately I do not have a special gift for you My original plan was to update every single script I wrote over the past ten years, but the attachments got bugged somewhere during the forum move from srl-forums.com to villavu; They are probably still somewhere in a backup at my parents place, but seeing as I'm at the other side of the world atm it will have to wait.
Partial list of scripts I wrote and released (there's more but I cannot find them. I remember a power chopper and a mind rune crafter):
- Markus Air Crafter (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8609). It got me rc level 23
- TINS, a game that later got included with SCAR! (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24712)
- AlchMagician, a simple auto-alcher (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23411)
- Mage Me Fast, a ruby ring alcher (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41513); Got me around 70ish mage
- Bolt Me Boldly, a bolt enchanter (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64669) It got me to 80ish magic pretty cheap
- SRL Essence Miner, based on Wizzup's (https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117079). It got me a 48hr ban
The essence miner will receive an update shortly, as I added an iron miner to it. Quickest way to level mining from 1 to 99 on a noob! No quests required in RS3.
Thanks to all of you for being here, maybe we will reach the 15 years?
Mark