Scott T: The Blog
"P" is for Progress
Posted Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:45pm by ScottTagged: games, programming
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Thought I'd do some commentary on what's happened since those screenshots last Wednesday. I was initially going to title it "F is for Frustrating" but thought I'd let the images do the talking, but since then I think I've gotten things under control. Firstly, it turns out the massive slowdowns was due to the inefficient method of LZSS decompression I'd used. After switching that over, the frames flew along quite nicely. I had also decided to tidy up the code by a rewrite using XNA which is where the graphical glitches came in. For the most part they were just logic issues ("<" rather than ">" and so on) but after some tweaking, I was getting more and more frequent crashes!
I'm not completely sure where these were coming but after re-rewriting back to the trusty ol' SdlDotNet (and some complaining about going round in circles) I appear to now have a very stable executable :D In other areas, basic load/save functions exist although names don't work yet. Mouse interaction works although I'm not sure when to remove some of the hotspots which can lead to glitches when clicked on. Also, although puzzles work (see below - the lighter squares represent a hotspot) the transparencies relating to piece movements currently don't.
Spookypeanut hasn't been idle either with t7gre either with decoding of the script file formats allowing much of this progress to occur. The ScummVM Groovie engine that he started on has also gained much of this same functionality thanks to the work of jvprat :)
Hopefully more progress follows soon.
Wordless Wednesday (Just)
Posted Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:58pm by ScottTagged: games, programming
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Mid-Semester Break
Posted Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:06pm by ScottTagged: uni
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Once again, mid-semester break has hit. As much as I would like to get some study done between now and the 28th, I can't see it happening. It never does. And I always regret it during the first week back.
I've got a few uni things it would be nice to get done over the "holidays" such as an optional assignment due this Friday coming, as well as revision for a test on the second day back. Other than that, it would be nice to get some general study done, some time spent sailing, and some time spent on some of my personal projects :)
We've also got relatives visiting from Tuesday through Friday which could throw a spanner in the works in terms of spare time too ;)
6-month Round-up
Posted Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:16pm by ScottTagged: fires, spam, this-site, water
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It's now nearly 6 months since I got started with this blog, and although I though I would give it up after a month or so, I've stuck at it and come to enjoy it :) As such, I've decided to do a bit of a round-up on how things have progressed since that rather blunt "first post" in last September.
How things change! I started off with comments on changes to SSC where I had the time and other programming things but before long, uni started to creep in and that's where things really started to grow. Things progressed (both on and off-line) and before long the effects of the lake being cut off were becoming evident and just a few weeks later, a bushfire started not too far from home although it was contained a few days later. Into 2008, the water levels continued to drop (some pretty good photos are available here if you haven't seen them yet) and a fair bit of work was done on V3 of SSC before finally deploying it (with some teething issues - some still visible) last week.
Now for some interesting tid-bits:
- March (last month) has been the busiest
- Yahoo! indexes far more often than Google, yet Google is the dominant search engine from visitors
- The most popular search terms (by far) have contained "7th guest" and "vista" - Unfortunately I won't have my solution ready for quite a while so I recommend you try DosBox or just set an old computer up (That's what I've done :) )
- I've had about 15 spam comments and Akismet stopped them all
- I've had about 11 non-spam comments - thanks a lot! :D These have been from
- Ryan Leach
- Katie
- spookypeanut
- Larry "Liontamer" Oj
Looking forward for the next 6 months :)
Feed Issues
Posted Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:16pm by ScottTagged: ssc, this-site
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Just a quick note to mention the web feed has been playing around a little today. Has been some minor teething problems since I've updated from V2 to V3 of SSC!
Hope the new style looks ok across all browsers as I'm still in the process of checking each one.
