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Sintia has a Twitter page

LiraNuna — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:09:12 +0000

Sintia, the suicidal MegaHAL IRC service bot I run for over 6 years on EFnet now have a twitter page! Sintia will be updating it regularly.

Check Sintia’s page here.

Nintendo ES (x86 Operating System)

LiraNuna — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:02:45 +0000

Seems like Nintendo is developing an open source (?) operating system for Intel based PCs called ES (Which resolves to Nintendo ES – or NES).

“We propose an extensible component operating system architecture in which an operating system kernel uses reflection to process C++ pure virtual function based system calls and upcalls to provide a unified programming environment for application, server, and kernel development. We found that we could even develop file subsystems and a TCP/IP protocol stack on an existing operating system based on this architecture.”

ES seem to use Squeak and SmallTalk as environment. The page and documentations (PDF) are in Japanese, which I cannot read.

I hope this will be more then just "Research" operating system and Nintendo might give opportunity to homebrew developers like Sony is
(kinda) doing with the "Install OS" on the PS3.

The ES Operating system (Google Translated version)

Edit: The page is now hosted on GoogleCode, and there isn’t any mention of Nintendo…
For those who are interested, the new page is http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/

Tales of Dagur features on JoyPad

LiraNuna — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:21:56 +0000

Tales of Dagur features on a French magazine JoyPad. Thanks to _JSR_ for the scan!

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Lesson 5 released, Lesson 4 fixed

LiraNuna — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:42:38 +0000

Lesson 5 had been released, after a long time of inactivity. Lesson 4 was also polished and added a section about converting a background while setting palette information to it’s map.

Lesson 5 was the last in the series regarding backgrounds, and next lessons will now be about sprites.

You can read Lesson 5 HERE.

Cutest Coder’s Cat Poll

LiraNuna — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:34:31 +0000

Following an argument with chishm in #mellowdsdev, I started a poll to see who’s cat is the cutest.
Various coder’s cats from #dsdev and #mellowdsdev were qualified for the poll.

Choose the cat you think is the cutest in the poll on the left side of the page.
I will not vote and keep the cat owners anonymous. The poll will end in a week, along with the results and the owners.

Happy voting!