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Poll
Question: I own a CPC and my native language is...
Option 1: German votes: 13
Option 2: French votes: 16
Option 3: Spanish votes: 16
Option 4: English votes: 26
Option 5: Polish votes: 3
Option 6: Russian votes: 1
Option 7: Turkish votes: 1
Option 8: Portugise votes: 0
Option 9: Dutch votes: 0
Option 10: Chinese votes: 0
Option 11: Korean votes: 0
Option 12: Japanese votes: 0
Option 13: Irish votes: 2
Option 14: Greek votes: 3
Option 15: Norwegian votes: 3
Option 16: Belgian votes: 1
Option 17: Swedish votes: 0
Option 18: Danish votes: 4
Option 19: Scottish votes: 1
Option 20: Romanian votes: 1
Option 21: Finnish votes: 1
Title: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 20:07, 17 April 15
Hi all friends of the CPC!


I'm curious to find out how much different languages CPC owners do speak. So best thing is maybe to make a poll and then see if we miss somebody.


Please participate! It will help the development of future multi-lingual games and out of curiosity anyway.  :) :laugh:

Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: jbaudrand on 20:14, 17 April 15
voted
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Bryce on 20:29, 17 April 15
Nach bhfuil mé vótáil toisc nach bhfuil mo theanga liostaithe.

Bryce.

= I didn't vote because you haven't included my language (Irish, Celtic, Gaelic, Gaeilge, or whatever you prefer to call it)

P.s. We also have Danish, Norwegian, Belgian and Swedish users that probably won't be impressed with the list either, not to mention the fact that you forgot Greek!!!
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 20:42, 17 April 15
Thanks Bryce, it's easy to forget languages. Any other idea appreciated.


I just wrote "Irish". But if there is a big difference in slang in Ireland, then let me know, and I will add.  :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Carnivius on 20:46, 17 April 15
I put English but my native language is unintelligible growls and grunts...
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Bryce on 20:47, 17 April 15
Ok, voted. Irish isn't a slang, it's a language, it just seems to have many names :D There are also several dialects, depending on whether you come from the east, west, south or Donegal (what the hell are you guys saying :D ). Then there is Scotish gaelic (probably several versions also) which are very similar on paper, but spoken completely different. Old languages = complicated.

Bryce.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: XyphoesRe on 21:30, 17 April 15
What about people speaking more languages? as i understand more than one language, my games can also be in english, spain, french, netherlnds, suaheli, Afrikaans, php and perl 5. So maybe a multiple choice will be better to get the best "language" for use at games and programms.

Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: villain on 21:36, 17 April 15
Quote from: Roland Radio on 21:30, 17 April 15
What about people speaking more languages? as i understand more than one language, my games can also be in english, spain, french, netherlnds, suaheli, Afrikaans, php and perl 5. So maybe a multiple choice will be better to get the best "language" for use at games and programms.


Abr native isch bei dir halt schwäbisch. Geits abr au et. :-)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Urusergi on 21:51, 17 April 15
voted!  ;D

only one spanish!! :o a ver si se espabilan mis compatriotas del foro
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Dubliner on 22:03, 17 April 15
Quote from: Urusergi on 21:51, 17 April 15
voted!  ;D

only one spanish!! :o a ver si se espabilan mis compatriotas del foro

Just wait and see ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 22:05, 17 April 15
@villain (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=210) & Rolli Radio: It's about mother language, Bavarian is missing too. And Switzerduitsch and Austrian. Let's keep it a bit easy.  :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: robcfg on 22:17, 17 April 15
Voted!  ;D
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: villain on 22:39, 17 April 15
Quote from: TFM on 22:05, 17 April 15It's about mother language.

That's what I wanted to point out. ;-) BTW, there's no Belgian language. They have a chance of speaking three different languages, depending from the region.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: VincentGR on 23:13, 17 April 15
Greek, and I even have a disk with Greek fonts  ;D
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: XyphoesRe on 23:14, 17 April 15
luxemburgian missing too! PAPAYA!  :P
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: radu14m on 05:47, 18 April 15
Hey, romanian is missing :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Devilmarkus on 12:12, 18 April 15
Voted, too


Quote from: radu14m on 05:47, 18 April 15
Hey, romanian is missing :)

Vrei să spui că Dracula folosit FutureOS?

@TFM (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=179): I added Romanian ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Prodatron on 12:45, 18 April 15
Finish is still missing.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Devilmarkus on 13:04, 18 April 15
Quote from: Prodatron on 12:45, 18 April 15
Finish is still missing.

Ei ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: archcosmo on 14:44, 18 April 15
Oi mate, you're missing Strine are'nt cha?
why doncha fix that up mate, while I get the barbee fired up and crack a stubby open for ya
:P :P
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Gryzor on 18:35, 18 April 15
Silly,but voting :D
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: MacDeath on 18:52, 18 April 15
Belgian here... you know that Belgium at least has 2 different languages, all coming from neighbour countries, right ?


I mean flemmish is basicall Nederlands variant (just some strong accent) and Wallon is basically french with strong accent as well...


I suspect some poorly chosen choice of choices when you chose the options to choose from in the survey. remove your shoes when you use keyboard with feet.
:laugh:


jokes appart, where are Cobol, Basic, C, Java and Python ?

also I love where the list Finnish.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Bryce on 19:51, 18 April 15
Quote from: archcosmo on 14:44, 18 April 15
Oi mate, you're missing Strine are'nt cha?
why doncha fix that up mate, while I get the barbee fired up and crack a stubby open for ya
:P :P

Just cracked a stubby in support for Aussi being included :D

Bryce.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Devilmarkus on 19:57, 18 April 15
Quote from: MacDeath on 18:52, 18 April 15
jokes appart, where are Cobol, Basic, C, Java and Python ?

You forgot binary.... a nice GUI with tiny icons and 1110101001010101111101 labels...
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: MacDeath on 20:29, 18 April 15
Also Canadian and American...
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 21:01, 18 April 15
Wont add Pigeon English  ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 21:02, 18 April 15
Quote from: Gryzor on 18:35, 18 April 15
Silly,but voting :D


Silly , but helpful and interesting.  :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Apollo on 23:36, 18 April 15
Fertig samma!  :D
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Apollo on 23:36, 18 April 15
Quote from: Bryce on 19:51, 18 April 15
Just cracked a stubby in support for Aussi being included :D

Bryce.

What the heck is a stubby??
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: CraigsBar on 23:49, 18 April 15
Quote from: Apollo on 23:36, 18 April 15
What the heck is a stubby??
a short beer bottle, normally 250ml or a half pint.

So @bryce is having the Aussie equivalent of an English "swift half"
Craig
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Audronic on 01:08, 19 April 15
The Stubby is to be Drunk "COLD"

PS a Stubby is also a Very short pair of shorts (Male)

Ray
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: MacDeath on 02:32, 19 April 15
QuoteWont add Pigeon English
an african or a european one ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQgwwXOfR4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQgwwXOfR4#)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOyOM7wxlE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOyOM7wxlE#)

Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: MiguelSky on 07:09, 19 April 15
Voted !!
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: AMSDOS on 11:25, 19 April 15
Quote from: MacDeath on 18:52, 18 April 15
Belgian here... you know that Belgium at least has 2 different languages, all coming from neighbour countries, right ?


I mean flemmish is basicall Nederlands variant (just some strong accent) and Wallon is basically french with strong accent as well...


I suspect some poorly chosen choice of choices when you chose the options to choose from in the survey. remove your shoes when you use keyboard with feet.
:laugh:


jokes appart, where are Cobol, Basic, C, Java and Python ?

also I love where the list Finnish.


Java and Python on a CPC? What about some SmallTalk in the Scheme of IT?
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 19:39, 19 April 15
Quote from: AMSDOS on 11:25, 19 April 15

Java and Python on a CPC? What about some SmallTalk in the Scheme of IT?


Oh Jerome did a python like script language for FutureOS back the day. So yes, it can be done. He used that to calculate the tides, which is not trivial because the precise timings are a kind of military secret in France.


Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 19:45, 20 April 15
All members! Please vote!  :) :) :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: protek on 19:52, 20 April 15
Äänestetty.  :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: kevin.c on 06:54, 21 April 15
There is no tlhİngan Hol...  :-[
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: AMSDOS on 08:31, 21 April 15
Quote from: TFM on 19:39, 19 April 15

Oh Jerome did a python like script language for FutureOS back the day. So yes, it can be done. He used that to calculate the tides, which is not trivial because the precise timings are a kind of military secret in France.


Well I haven't studied Python extensively, though I thought it looked a little bit BASIC like. The guy at work who knows Python a lot better than me made it sound like the size of the programs were quite large or something, though I guess that's what you get when memory in unlimited and CPU quite fast, but I was to understand the language is still interpreted? A FutureOS implementation would have to optimize the code as well as being Compiled?
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 15:48, 21 April 15
Quote from: kevin.c on 06:54, 21 April 15
There is no tlhİngan Hol...  :-[


Ehm, sorry, what?
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 15:50, 21 April 15
Quote from: AMSDOS on 08:31, 21 April 15

Well I haven't studied Python extensively, though I thought it looked a little bit BASIC like. The guy at work who knows Python a lot better than me made it sound like the size of the programs were quite large or something, though I guess that's what you get when memory in unlimited and CPU quite fast, but I was to understand the language is still interpreted? A FutureOS implementation would have to optimize the code as well as being Compiled?


Well, I have to look at this again tbh. Forgot the details... However memory is not an issue, the sturcture underneath is a C program interpreting it IIRC. Gotta search for some discs, somehow I don't have DSK's.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: mr_lou on 18:36, 21 April 15
Can it be true we don't have any one from Sweden here?
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: radu14m on 19:17, 21 April 15
no russian or australian owners ? ( = no aleste or aiwa )  :-X
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: kevin.c on 21:03, 21 April 15
Quote from: TFM on 15:48, 21 April 15

Ehm, sorry, what?
Don't you know?? It's Klingon language: tlhİngan Hol!
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Bryce on 21:15, 21 April 15
Quote from: radu14m on 19:17, 21 April 15
no russian or australian owners ? ( = no aleste or aiwa )  :-X

There's quite a few Australians here. Most quite active on the Forum. I don't think there's any Russians here though, but I could be wrong?

Bryce.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: The Last Bandit on 21:22, 21 April 15
No Klingon ?


Ah well Irish (Cork version) will have to do  ;D
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Apollo on 22:30, 21 April 15
Quote from: CraigsBar on 23:49, 18 April 15
a short beer bottle, normally 250ml or a half pint.

So @bryce is having the Aussie equivalent of an English "swift half"
Craig

Thanks for the quick Aussie and English tour, both expressions were new to me
But it sounds like a sad small sip of beer for me... a bit like a "Kölsch" in Cologne. When the first drop reaches the stomach the glass is already empty  ;D
But I would gladly join on a stubby as well. I think I never actually tried one.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Urusergi on 23:43, 21 April 15
Quote from: Bryce on 21:15, 21 April 15I don't think there's any Russians here though, but I could be wrong?

Bryce.

Yes! you are wrong  :P
At least there is (was?) one Russian:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/profile/?u=1057 (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/profile/?u=1057)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Bryce on 08:17, 22 April 15
Quote from: Apollo on 22:30, 21 April 15
Thanks for the quick Aussie and English tour, both expressions were new to me
But it sounds like a sad small sip of beer for me... a bit like a "Kölsch" in Cologne. When the first drop reaches the stomach the glass is already empty  ;D
But I would gladly join on a stubby as well. I think I never actually tried one.

Only if you drink Kölsch in those 0,2cl glasses! My local happily serves me pints of Kölsch on a regular basis, although "the locals" tend to give me strange looks when they see a pint of Kölsch.

@Urusergi (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=923): Not exactly what I'd call a regular visitor :D

Bryce.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: kevin.c on 08:39, 22 April 15
There is a Kölsch hot line!
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Axelay on 10:32, 22 April 15
Quote from: Apollo on 22:30, 21 April 15
But it sounds like a sad small sip of beer for me...


Well you're in luck then, I've only ever seen them at 375ml  ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: CraigsBar on 11:01, 22 April 15
Quote from: Axelay on 10:32, 22 April 15

Well you're in luck then, I've only ever seen them at 375ml  ;)
still not a pint tho. Being English beer must be served in pints! OK 568ml for the eurozone lol.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 15:54, 22 April 15
Interesting that far... only 2 Greeks, but 3 from Norway and Denmark.


Expected a bit more people from eastern Europe though.

Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: VincentGR on 16:07, 22 April 15
Quote from: TFM on 15:54, 22 April 15
Interesting that far... only 2 Greeks, but 3 from Norway and Denmark.


Expected a bit more people from eastern Europe though.

As I remember there was one more Greek lately, can't remember his nick though.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: protek on 20:47, 22 April 15
I think there's at least another Finn besides me.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 22:51, 22 April 15
Danish catch up now  ;)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: AMSDOS on 23:10, 24 April 15
Quote from: TFM on 15:50, 21 April 15

Well, I have to look at this again tbh. Forgot the details... However memory is not an issue, the sturcture underneath is a C program interpreting it IIRC. Gotta search for some discs, somehow I don't have DSK's.


Okay. So you don't know how advanced this Python implementation might be?
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Gryzor on 11:48, 25 April 15
Quote from: VincentGR on 16:07, 22 April 15
As I remember there was one more Greek lately, can't remember his nick though.


Contra or something, I think.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 17:30, 25 April 15
Contra like Gryzor?  :laugh:  Greeks have nice nicks!  :)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: Gryzor on 18:00, 25 April 15
it. Was. A. Joke.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 18:21, 25 April 15
I ... had... a ... (couple)... drinks... .yesterday.  8)
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: TFM on 21:04, 04 May 15
Push!
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: AMSDOS on 21:37, 03 March 17
Quote from: TFM on 20:07, 17 April 15

I'm curious to find out how much different languages CPC owners do speak. So best thing is maybe to make a poll and then see if we miss somebody.



I know a little Straylian if that helps.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: keith56 on 02:05, 04 March 17
Native English speaker living in Japan - I speak some Japanese

I wonder if there are any other CPC owners in Japan - I've never seen the hardware or software  over here - there's atari stuff and even a vectrex in the store in town, but no sign of the CPC

I'm tempted to release a game only in japanese (with kanji) on CPC as a bit of a joke.

Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: AMSDOS on 02:42, 04 March 17
I recall a series of NEC computers with a Z80 compatible processor that was built in Japan around 1983/4. I don't recall the models it was something like PC8001A, though there was a couple of others.
Title: Re: Languages of the CPC!
Post by: keith56 on 05:13, 04 March 17
Quote from: AMSDOS on 02:42, 04 March 17
I recall a series of NEC computers with a Z80 compatible processor that was built in Japan around 1983/4. I don't recall the models it was something like PC8001A, though there was a couple of others.

Of course the MSX is/was very popular out here, and is Z80 based, in many ways it's the japanese equivalent to the CPC, but their display capabilities are very different.

The early ones could only do hiragana, some of the MSX2's could do Kanji - but needed a 128k rom of symbols to do it - I wonder how doable it would be on an un-upgraded 6128...
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