Author Archives: Donncha

Dave pointed me at the new MS OneNote app and quoted Steve Gollmor saying, “a powerful idea processor”. Zimran puts it in more <a href="http://www.winterspeak.com/2002_11_01_archive.html#
85711214″>familiar terms, calling it a “text editor”. hehe.

:: phpPatterns() – there is much yet to learn!

About Tablet Computing Old and New – if you enjoyed the review of the new Tablet PCs, you’ll like this look at their history. It reminded me that the C64, NES, and other 8 bit computers had “laser guns” you fired at your tv. I used them, they worked, how well I can’t remember though!

The top ten usability problems in Mozilla – harsh but true. I think that judging by how I see others (even developers) use MSIE, I don’t think most people will actually go into the preferences. Quite often I end up telling these users how to configure their browsers, even though I rarely use Windows or MSIE.
This is the post that pointed me at the above. Mathew’s dealings with his Internet cafe. *shudder*
I’d go for galeon, it’s an excellent browser!

I should have read the unix docs for UAE. To grab the mouse in an X11 window press F12-g. Works great 🙂

At long last I can play Syndicate again! It plays full-speed in UAE and it’s just as I remember it!
Unfortunately there’s no mouse-lock AFAIK so the mouse keeps wandering out of the window. *ggrrr* I’ll have to get DGA working and play it full-screen.

The Alltime Amiga Games Top 50 – what’s your favourite?

Ximian Evolution 1.2 – good news for Evolution!

AMI Sector One – looks like a good Amiga Emulation Site.

If you’re trying to compile UAE – The UAE Amiga Emulator on Red Hat 8, or any other modern Unix system you may encounter the following bug:
./tools/cpuopti <cputmp.s >cpufast.s
Corrupted assembly file!
This is easily fixed by copying the cputmp.s file over cpufast.s:
cd src; cp -f cputmp.s cpufast.s; cd ..
Now run make again.

I’m also looking at Xfellow but SDL just crashed when I tried to run it so it might take some tinkering to get it to work on my system.