I finally got my #BeOS virtual machine working on my new AMD Zen 5 system.

AMD is missing some Intel secret sauce, so using a hardware VM doesn't work (Guru Meditation errors in VirtualBox, abrupt reboots in KVM). But QEMU's software emulation does! Story in my blog...

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Had fun adding the first power-ups to #NthPongWars, a game for the Z80 #NabuPC. Of course, got many more ideas. The challenge is fitting them in 64K of memory, and making overall game-play coherent.

Details, discussion and video script in the longer blog post at web.ncf.ca/au829/Weeken...

More #NthPongWars progress - now with AI players. One is trying to draw "N" while the others bounce around the sides, until they spot a Human player.

Blog post about it at
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Near by at Carleton in February…

This is what a $25 jar looks like.

Back to basics, added collisions to #NthPongWars. There was some trouble with players getting stuck together, but after a few attempts, got the good version shown here.

Blog post about it at: www.agmsmith.ca/WeekendRepor...

And line 1 is supposedly up and working again. Just in time for me to head to the Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival.

After some fiddling and rearranging, I've finished my first draft of a schedule to see maybe 53 shows at the 2025 #OttFringe Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival. As usual, I used #FFVSO to try out different options, web.ncf.ca/au829/FFVSO/... if you want to try it out on your schedule or edit mine.

I'll need to update the map data for Café Alternatif (recycled some old distances from 2014, making for a lengthy path), but other than that, #FFVSO is now usable!

I should add a feature (first time in a while) to keep track of masked and other special showings. Nudge me and it will get done.

I finally had time to type in this season's #OttFringe Theatre Festival show times into #FFVSO, my scheduling app for Fringe Bingers. Pack in dozens of shows into as short a time as you can fit them. My record is something like seeing 53 shows in one Fringe.

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Now it's time to integrate the CHIPNSFX Z80 CPU music player for the AY-3-8910 sound chip into my #NthPongWars game code. Fairly straightforward, except the composing part. Even had time to test game-play super speed while harvesting tiles.

Blog with details at web.ncf.ca/au829/Weeken...

I finally got CHIPNSFX (a Z80 music player and separate Tracker that works in Linux and Windows) assembling and running in my #NthPongWars project, after a bit of delay to figure out an assembler assert (expression too complex).

Longer story on the blog at web.ncf.ca/au829/Weeken...

I spent more time on #NthPongWars today, looking into sound effects on the #NabuPC using the AY-3-8910 sound chip. I also converted some old assembler Pac-man sound code to C to get the hang of it, and found an abandoned sound experiment in the wacka-wacka code.

More at web.ncf.ca/au829/Weeken...

The #KichiSibiWT has lots of snow, perhaps too much on this huge snow drift at Remic Rapids, in Ottawa Canada. But never fear, the team has it under control!

Which means a freshly groomed winter trail for me to walk on, in really good weather too.

And shovelling on the roof too! Though I get tired of it, I think of shovelling as an exercise program. With someone else setting a brutal schedule. Also got an email from the insurance people suggesting I have a look at the roof.