Apr

30

The sound of silence

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Yes, the long silence is broken with something that definitely isn’t a Poing community level preview (coming soon… honest!). Instead… well, what on earth is THIS?

Presenting the first (and possibly the last) screenshot of: EightyForty, an oldschool DOS-ish screen prototyper! Boring, nerdy and geeky, yes? Hell no! This is the cutting edge, I tell ya…
This [...]

Apr

12

Dalyn’s Quill released

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I was going to wait until tomorrow before announcing this, but since all the preliminary guff has been done, there’s not much point in waiting around…
Pleasantly, as I’ve been able to get a huge amount done over the past few days, I’m happy to announce that Dalyn’s Quill is now available for you to download! [...]

Apr

6

I’ll get you next time, Gadget!

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Today’s blog post is about gadgets. Not the cool type of gadgets (like, for example, the gorgeous-looking Optimus Maximus Keyboard), but boring buttons, labels and spinboxes. Yeah. I know what I’d prefer to be playing around with…
Specifically I wanted to ramble on about the gadgets I’ve stuffed into Dalyn’s Quill, and about some [...]

Mar

8

Gravatastic update!

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Just a small thing, but I finally got around to adding Gravatar support to the page and post comments, along with tidying up the site theme in a few places It was actually way easier than I thought it’d be…
Onward to Dalyn’s Quill – midway through this Sunday afternoon I’ve made a fair [...]

Jan

19

Plonker

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See that post title? That’s an accurate description of what I am.
Over the weekend I was bashing away at some more of Dalyn’s Quill. I was at the stage where I wanted to code the pen toolbar functionality – i.e. when you click a pen button, it sets up the pen so you [...]

Jan

2

Who was where?

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Progress!

Dalyn’s Quill is coming together slowly. As you can see, the dungeon canvas now draws as it should do and can be edited with the default pens (the pen selection toolbar doesn’t work yet). It breaks embarassingly often, and annoyingly strange and weird stuff happens if you push more than one mouse button at once. [...]

Dec

7

The MDATA11.MDR file laid bare

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Attention mappers! For anyone interested in modding Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol dungeons, you might find this page helpful – it’s an in-depth description of the MDATA11.MDR file layout. It’s not otherwise very easy to find, so the more links that lead to it, the better! It was an invaluable resource when I was tinkering [...]

Jul

18

Whoops…

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I did get the latest Millenipede teaser ready yesterday, but after receiving literally some emails relating to the 1.2 beta I got entirely sidetracked and forgot to post it
So here it is:

Mmmmm. Nice pixels But I wonder what those strange icons that have appeared on the status bar mean? And how on [...]

Jul

16

Clear your calendars…

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…because Retro Remakes have just announced that there’s going to be an official RR 2008 Competition later this year! Excellent news, as there’s always a healthy list of entries, and the prizes are sure to be an incentive (though personally I don’t care about that as I wouldn’t know how to use half of them!). [...]

Jun

17

Firefox 3 released

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Mozilla have released the latest and greatest version of their web browser, Firefox, and as you might expect the surge of traffic has slowed their site to a grinding halt. I hear they’re going for a Guinness world record for the most downloads of a piece of software over a single day – why not [...]