#haiku is a new little experiment for my Stories In Flight site – a mashup of Twitter and Flickr: The page searches for tweets with the #haiku hashtag and then visualizes the results by searching for each word in Flickr photos. It’s a evolutionary step from FlickrPoet, and while it removes the interactivity, it certainly [...]
Since we’ve built MapSkip a few years ago now, I’ve been steadily thinking of storytelling, its influence on the web and also the influence of modern technology on storytelling itself. A few days ago I had an idea that was simple enough to experiment with and since I needed a place for the pages, I’ve [...]
Over at DadHacker, Landon is celebrating his 30th year of programming in C. It’s a great reminiscence across several decades of coding, ending in three golden rules that should be repeated in the first chapter of every future programming manual: Leave the existing brace style in the code alone or change all of it Keep [...]
Finally had a chance to look at the Google Wave demo from the Google I/O conference a few days ago… Wow. The concept starts out really easy at the beginning of the video, but by about the fifteen minute mark my jaw was on the floor and it stayed there for the next hour. The [...]
After a few months of not much time (actually that’s still true, I’m just coping better!) I have dug up my unfinished emulation project. The 68K emulation now knows maybe 75% of the instruction set and my virtual Atari ST runs through a good chunk of the early initialization code, before it currently all blows [...]
I’ve written before about the roots of my programming life – while I first had a ZX81, I really consider the Sinclair ZX Sepctrum as the machine where I developed a taste for programming and thinking in algorithms. Most actual Spectrums are now rather long in the tooth, and many have probably near irreparable damage [...]
Coming back from a programming break over the holidays, I went back to work on my ST emulation… The CPU is making steady progress and for the first time the emulator ran through 1000 instructions without a hiccup. It finally coughed up an exception on a bit shift operation about 1300 instructions into the TOS [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by software emulators. The earliest example I’ve used that I can think of was a ZX Spectrum emulator on an Atari ST around 1987. I had a real Spectrum for some time at that point and had just bought a ST the year before, when I found this program on a [...]
It’s interesting to see developers open their programming process to the world on their blogs. Here are two recent examples that I found while looking for resources on emulator programming (ahem!) – Miggy is a blog from Bristol in the UK and the owner, t0ne, started work on a Amiga emulator in Java in October. [...]
With the speed increases in computers and browser code, a new class of emulators is slowly growing to significant levels: Emulators built in JavaScript! I wrote about this recently when I found Matt West’s cool Spectrum emulator on the web, and since then I’ve been looking around a bit to see what else is out [...]