A hundred? Who'd've thought this would last?
In honour of us hitting this amazing number of newsletters, I've decided to take us back a bit, and resurrect the two-column, media-enhanced edition of the newsletter.
Oooh, look at the pretty pictures!
I DID want to do something big and special, and had planned to have written an entirely new site, just for the newsletter, but this point in time. |edit| That should say "BY this point in time.." It was 3am!!! |edit|
I planned this about 6 months ago.
In the past 6 months I've also written 45 games, so as you can probably guess, the website stuff took a bit of a back seat. *insert Friday/Back Seat based reference here*
I have, though, completely rewritten my "Jumbled text file -> BBCode/Email" converter thing, entirely in BlitzMax!
It used to be in Blitz3D, so I could never run the thing on my Mac. Now it's all ported over, and I can quite happily double click an icon, and have everything sorted.
I even installed an FTP program on the Mac, too!!
As such, this week's newsletter is 100% written on a Mac.
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hmm..
I always wished that I could speak Welsh better, but I'm terrible with languages and after all the terrible welsh teachers I had who spent most of their time being slightly racist (like that old aunt who doesn't know any better) I never did very well.
Well, after listening to two half-hour .mp3s from this website my welsh is better than it ever was! It's almost criminally effortless and they're all free, too (I have no idea what their business model is. WAG funded?).
Hoboben's bashing his head trying to sort out those annoying keyboard alternatives.
He's currently focussing on what the shift-key does.
Is he there yet? socoder.net/?snippet=26211
; Pasting!
Hobo's also working on a text editor for his game.
I'm assuming the two are related! socoder.net/?topic=2268
; That C64 PC thing
It's just a pc that's been shoved into a C64 case. Can we move on now, people?
For the record, I'm abut 950% sure that the contents of my sister's 5 year old laptop, minus the screen, could also fit into a C64.
It's nothing magical.
I also have a MacMini which is about half the height of a Gamecube.
No special pixies required. socoder.net/?topic=2270
; Content to Steal Content
Print 9,"Hello Mr Copyright Holder"
Input ans$,"Is this ok"
If ans$="Yes" then Continue
If ans$="No" then END socoder.net/?topic=2278
It's Darts, and it's on your iPhing!
Play an entire tournament in the palm of your hands. (*Not recommended with real darts) socoder.net/?showcase=26316
Dabz tells us his tale of Amstrads, and learning, and Machine Code, and uses all his knowledge to build a great little html remake.
Hug a CPC today! Then play this game!
If you don't have one, just play the game! socoder.net/?showcase=26298
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A semi-cancelled, semi-abandoned, possibly-resurrected, great-looking platform game! Woot!
Indie Funding at it's finest. bit.ly/fxHubC
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This is the greatest thing in the whole Universe (and timely for my last hashtag, too)
Taken from the new (/season 2!) BBC Scotland comedy sketch series, Burnistoun that I first saw 2 days ago.
There's a lot of good comedy coming out of BBC Scotland lately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
It's World of Warcraft... with fancy dance music! Yeeay!
