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Back on Windows for now.

Posted by Mord, 26 July 2009 · 17 views

Well, that was ... interesting.

After spending the better part of yesterday with various installs of gnu/linux, most notably debian, I'm back on windows for the meantime. Debian would install properly but I couldn't for the life of me figure out exactly how to configure the adsl so I could get online. The required packages (apparently...

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Looks like Knoppix and Slax work.

Posted by Mord, 19 July 2009 · 34 views

While Ubuntu failed me, it looks like I can boot with either Knoppix or Slax from the liveCD. I'm posting this here, in fact, from Knoppix 6.01.

Looks like they have noscript added to Ice Weasel (Basically rebranded firefox iirc) included. Excellent. I had a few problems at first trying to figure out how to connect with dsl, but help from irc...

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Too. Many. Games.

Posted by Mord, 11 July 2009 · 12 views

That's it! No more purchases until September!

It's a shame there's so many deals one, but if I want to make sure I can go somewhere on vacation next month, I seriously gotta button down the budget for the next few weeks. :ponder:

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Wisdom Toothless

Posted by Mord, 26 June 2009 · 23 views

I had my final wisdom tooth extracted about 24hrs ago. Took yesterday and today off work. Yesterday was obvious I wasn't going to get to work. While the pain is subdued at this point, I'm not sleeping that well and still have swelling and the like to deal with.

Here's my livejournal...

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ARPG So far.

Posted by Mord, 21 June 2009 · 20 views

Maybe I'm spending too much effort on something that's really so small overall. :ponder:

While the rest of the game play area will likely resemble standard 2 color mazes and the like, the top section I was trying to go for a horizon type of effect. I may have to impliment this slightly differently in the end anyway although the way it works...

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Cycle73 Positioning

Posted by Mord, 07 June 2009 · 36 views

While I posted this in the programming forums for others to use, I figure it'll be easier for me to find it later in my own blog if I need a backup of this thing or something. Right now it takes too many lines to position an object since I have the actual HMOVE separated from the positioning but it's at least a start. I guess the next thing...

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Wow. SAP and Winamp is funky.

Posted by Mord, 06 June 2009 · 20 views

I downloaded the new updated SAP archive the other day and had the tunes playing on random/looping.

Then I went to work and forgot it was still playing. I use Winamp for these as I tend to prefer having a one stop shop for my audio - as a result I download winamp plugins whenever I find I need one.

Anyway. When I got home the computer was sluggish. I...

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Curse you Cycle 73!

Posted by Mord, 30 May 2009 · 25 views

Well, I suppose it's not THAT bad. It's just annoying as heck to work out a usable cycle 73 hmove routine. The best I've worked out so far is to use a table, which of course sacrifices about 160 bytes of rom for the table. Assuming that hitting RESPx at cycle 76 counts as the end of a scanline and not the beginning of the next then the table I...

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Completed Wonderboy in Monsterland

Posted by Mord, 26 May 2009 · 13 views

Took me a few tries over the week, but nailed it this afternoon. Got all the legendary gear and remembered how to get the bell/ruby. Kept forgetting to meet with Catherine in the seaside town. When I finally got to the last castle, I decided to get the bell to help me get through the castle. Managed to get to the dragon with half life remaining plus a...

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Also. Pictures!

Posted by Mord, 23 May 2009 · 26 views

Finally took the time to examine the little digital camera I bought back in 2006ish. I have a LOT more than the little bits shown in here, but that would require effort to unpack out of boxes, etc.

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