Aww, how crappy these CRTs look after a couple of days working with with a flat panel. They're round, fuzzy and reflective, and throw bad radiation on your face.
Aww, how crappy these CRTs look after a couple of days working with with a flat panel. They're round, fuzzy and reflective, and throw bad radiation on your face.
Porting an application to a platform you never worked on is fun. After checking the RKRM and the sources of the v2600 emulator, I managed write an AmigaOS port of Sarien, and it kind of works. It's slow as hell, but good enough for my first attempt to write code on the Amiga :) DICE C seems to work fine.
My dual-head setup with my old CRT and my new TFT monitors was highly unstable with the Mach64 and G400 cards, and it seems that mga_hal was causing the problem. KDE 2.2 works nicely with the dual-screen layout, and so does XScreensaver. Hmm, I wish I had a way to tell XScreensaver to run GL hacks only on the accelerated head.
Received my Samsung 570s TFT flat panel monitor yesterday, and here's a quick review:
A long time since I posted something here.
Satuday night in weirdland. It's incredibly fun, you should try it! Set a voyage to lands unknown aboard an old battered car (and I mean it!) with your geek friends! Make sure the car is held together by pieces of wire, lacks door handles and shifts gear automatically -- when you're least expecting it. (Don't know where to find one of these? marcelo's brother can loan you this fine piece of precision machinery!) Listen to one of the geeks singing Turkish songs! Park your car in front of a restaurant, and go walking to another one. Watch as children throw sticky toys across the room until they hit the ceiling -- and stay there! Observe the people trying stupid things to retrieve them! (Don't believe it? We have photos!) Entertainment is guaranteed for all.
libtool sucks.
These PalmOS devices are incredibly wonderful toys. They even can be used as organizers! After a few years considering them useless for my needs, I ordered a IIIc unit and I'm really impressed with its simple, clean, ingenious design. Now I must find a decent way to keep track of my bugzilla tickets using it (perhaps importing them to the To-do list?), with comments as attached notes?
Yesterday was a bad hair day. Went to bed 02:00AM, woke up this morning at 6:30AM with my hair still bad, hopefully it will calm down today.
I'll move xmp to sourceforge this week. And I still can't add igor_nest to the sarien project.
In the past few weeks I'm being much more productive working at home. It seems that the noise levels and the number of spurious interrupts increased noticeably in the office, or my perception of the surroundings has been enhanced somehow. In either case, all these small annoyances and disturbances are slowing down my CPU cycles. Or it's just ADD, and in that case I should take Ritalin and listen to Phil Collins :)
Or perhaps I should get a sound card and a pair of headphones -- at home I've been working listening to things like Primus, The Residents, Kronos Quartet, Astor Piazzolla (!) and Malmsteen's Concerto for Electric Guitar. And some Greek music.
acme should post his article on software packaging. /me takes note: bug him to post the article.
Interesting findings can arise from silly mistakes. As jameson pointed out, in my previous diary entry I made a typo in the Sarien URL in Sourceforge -- and it pointed to an existing project I wasn't aware of!
Using the FreeSCI graphics subsystem in sarien could be a good idea, but before doing anything I must clean up that code. I suspect there are many bugs lurking from the dark corners of that code. BTW, does anyone know if there is any problem using glob() in BeOS? It seems that Sarien built fine except for a missing glob.h.
Regarding FreeSCI, I must check how is the sound subsystem going. I've worked with /dev/sequencer and an Adlib card emulator in xmp.
(Update: fixed the sourceforge project url. Interesting that by mistake I pointed to another project I didn't know, an AGI interpreter in Java.)
Brought Sarien back from the dead, and put the source tree under revision control in Sourceforge. There's a lot of dust & rust to be cleaned up in those lines of code in order to make it maintenable -- several layers of dirty hacks must be straightened out, and old kludges to be correctly addressed. It's also interesting to see how your coding skills have evolved in a couple of years, and how your code standards have changed.
Inspired by jameson's FreeSCI documentation, I've converted the currently existing AGI docs to DocBook and put it in the Sarien package. Lance Ewing's AGI utilities are in the bundle as well. Currently the SGML file is half-converted and under a revision process. A few sections have been removed and will be put back after the rest gets organized.
The QNX Photon driver for Sarien is already in CVS, and must be properly integrated to the config system to be built out of the box, as well as the win32 port via cygwin cross-compiler. I'm also tempted to port Sarien to PalmOS :) The Palm 160x160 screen is almost the correct size for the AGI 160x168 image resolution, I just wonder if the IIIc's CPU will be fast enough to run it (the Visor Edge is faster, but we'll need a colour display). Hmm, another reason to buy a PDA ;)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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