Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I've done some refactoring of the Intel 8080 emulator I wrote in Factor and split the games out into separate libraries. ROM's can now be stored anywhere with the path to the root of the ROM directory set in the 'rom-root' variable. Many of the 8080 based arcade games use similar hardware to Space Invaders. If they use a similar... more →
Following up on my previous post, I've added sound to my Space Invaders Emulator written in Factor. I used the .wav files obtained from the Space Invaders Didactic Emulator and also used the hardware information from that site to work out how the Space Invaders sound system worked. If you have OpenAL and ALUT installed you should be able to... more →
I've written a wrapper for the OpenAL sound library for Factor. It's a thin alien wrapper around the C interface and was pretty easy to write given Factor's great C FFI support (called 'alien'). It has been tested under Windows and Linux and should be easy to get going for the Mac. You'll need to install OpenAL and ALUT. Binaries... more →
Following on from my earlier post about installing Zimbra, I wanted to setup a development environment so I could work on the source code. My development system is currently a Windows XP machine and I documented the steps I went through in this article: Zimbra Development with Eclipse. Now I can use Eclipse to edit the code and deploy it... more →
I usually have a collection of notes and howto's that I've gathered as I worked out how to do things and file them away. Sometimes they're not really relevant for blog postings or I prefer to be able to edit them over time to keep them up to date - which is not really useful for weblog postings without spamming... more →