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wifight is a free online
multi-player multi-game turn-based game service. Is that enough hyphens? It's fun. I'm basu. Say hi in the chat room!
Debris Visual Art: A long-running art project. It generates surrealistic paintinglike displays from random imagery accumulated from the Internet. The image continually shifts, but just barely too slowly to see. Someday you'll have a dedicated LCD picture frame in your house running this. I have been working on this off and on since about 2001.
bmem: A simple (very simple) HUD for your PC, showing memory/CPU/disk use. In win32 the disk cache memory and free memory are kind of the same thing but they are reported separately, which is a huge pain. So I was inspired to write bmem. I also tried to make it as tiny and efficient as possible.
RSXE: This is my RSS/Atom/whatever newsreader. It's kind of approaching alpha 1.0. I use it every day and code up a feature or two when I find something I miss. The goal here is simplicity, efficiency, and speed.
Hlscript: When a programmer starts a blog, he can either use a pre-existing software package, or write one himself. Guess which option I picked. Hint: this blog runs on it! The design goals here are once again simplicity and speed. And easy hackability/customization. And not requiring a SQL engine. And not requiring too recent a version of PHP. Or browser.
Listo: A PHP-based personal streaming mp3 server. I wrote this to use with my Treo 650. It has a Web page interface to queue up songs while you stream them via PocketTunes or similar. It uses LAME to transcode songs to a usable bitrate. I use 32-40kbit mono variable bit rate over GPRS/EDGE.
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So for the last two months or so, I've just been pushing on getting the
win32 port of the wifight client up and running. The game engine had already
been ported, but that still left all the UI. And there is actually
a lot of it now. So what I did was write a parser that reads from the PalmOS
.rcp file and outputs some C-style tables into a header file.
Then I #include that header file back into the C++ and have some code that parses the data
in it and recreates the same UI, but with win32-native elements (buttons, edit fields, checkboxes etc.) Then button clicks and such are passed to the portable
Screen object for processing which doesn't know or care which OS it is running
on. So this is really getting the clients in
sync. I'm at the point where you can switch between screens, play turns (of
course!) and a lot of the features work, including a bunch of the menu items and buttons.
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