I updated the plan with a little rant. I read with interest a review of a beta version of Visual Studio for Windows, and was struck by the amount of fancy names and acronyms for simple computer programs/services. Active-this and Active-that.. Of course! How silly of me! It’s completely impossible to do the same thing with a bit of perl and a decent database (MySQL anyone?) because they haven’t got ActiveXXX built in. I remember listening to a classmate of mine last year about how great a MS app was because methods were exposed and you could call this or […]

I updated the TSN page with a new version. Check it out if you’re interested in a network project/job/task scheduling program.

Check out the new design I’m working on for this page. It’s something I’m working on and this is only the first draft of the new page. I tested Xwinallegro and unfortunetly I wasn’t impressed by graphical performance at anything above 320×200 on my P200. Hopefully more routines will be written in ASM to speed up routines and the library in gerneral. The new version of XPTC has inline assembly (i386 only) so it should offer improved performance for demos in X.

More good news for you demo coders out there! A version of Allegro for X11 is out! Allegro is a very nice library for creating graphical applications, be they demos, games or whatever! It has primitives for handling graphical functions as well as sound and packaging functions too! I used it for a project last year in DOS and hopefully I’ll now be able to port the code from DOS to Linux/X! More news about this later. On a related note, a new version of X11PTC was released recently. The new themes page for Windowmaker is open on themes.org. Make […]

Following hot on the heels of the Frame Buffer FAQ there’s an editorial about the frame buffer on slashdot.org. So, I now have PTC and midas downloaded. Now all I need is some spare time and I’ll start coding some demo effects to put up here somewhere. Anyone else want to contribute some code and maybe screenshots? Or even provide links to demos/effects in Linux? I’d like stuff that runs in an X window, but console goods are just as welcome. Oh! And does anyone want their site linked from my selection of buttons over there on the right? Mail […]

Prometheus True Colour has a new page for the X version of the library. Check it out on the Prometheus Truecolour for X page! There’s FAQ for the Kernel Vesa Framebuffer. Should be interesting. Pass the URL onto your demo coding friends! I changed the quizlet. Final results for the previous one were (Which is the best interface for coding multimedia apps on Linux?): 10% SVGALIB, it’s close to the H/W. 38% X11, it’s more compatible. 42% GGI, graphics independent API. 10% Any of the above. (378 respondents) X and GGI quite close there right at the end. No more, […]