Monthly Archives: August 2007

SleepyQueue

I discovered in my Curse of the Azure Bonds port that I was handling system interrupts related to keyboard input incorrectly. What I needed was a blocking getKey function when keys were buffered. So I wrote some code to solve this … Continue reading

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Moving from Visual Source Safe to Subversion

Last year we moved our current development repository from Visual Source Safe to Subversion. At a previous .Net Architecture Chat we talked about this process. So here is the python script and DOS .bat file used to do our conversion. … Continue reading

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Re: Why are Open Source People So Fanatical?

Peter Jones asked why are open source people so fanatical? and I think there are a number of reasons. So I’m going to enumerate them here. The first is regarding compiling the kernel. This is seen as a guaranty, if … Continue reading

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Wii Flash Game: Moebius Syndrome

I tried one on my all time favorite flash games Moebius Syndrome on the Wii today and it played flawlessly.  In fact I think I played my best game.

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Wii Flash Games

Well I have just upgraded my Wii (I assume too System 3) and the best flash game ever! Desktop Tower Defense is better, but still marginal. Version 1.5 is just blank after the splash screens, version 1.2 shows the towers, shots, health … Continue reading

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