not what I am supposed to be doing, but finally finished Final Fantasy 8 (took forever)
was wondering if I could add some excessively over-the-top summons like that to my long-delayed Apple II lo-res rpg I've been working on
sidetracked as recent version of GIMP won't export indexed PNGs anymore, so had to fix png RGB bug in my tools
3 dragons, one hand-rotoscoped, one semi-automated, one bmp2dhr. not sure what I think about the legibility (or converting 400 frames)
and the horrifying followup, I had spent 2 hours trying to help the one student figure out what combination of windows, vs-code, pico-sdk, and cmake was causing it to refuse to build code, to no success
the next day he's like I fixed it!
Great! What was the problem!
Oh, I don't know. I just told the AI to fix it and it churned away for 5 minutes and now it's working.
I hate this timeline
so using vscode/pi-pico for C class went even worse than expected. Some students setups just stopped working for no discernable reason.
decided to set up a pi5 with known working setup they could use to finish labs if their laptop stopped working... only to find out that pi-os+vs-code+pico.sdk is so huge it won't fit on a *16GB* SD card!
unbelievable, and of course I don't have any SD cards bigger than 16GB because who could ever need that much space
I was going to quote Dr. Nick and say "What a language!" but I apparently was mis-remembering and he actually said "What a country!" which isn't as funny here.
Anyway, C
my one kid's environment class went on a field trip to the local sketchy landfill. I think they were surprised to have a high school group who had done some research and so had some pointed questions about their operation.
they gave them maple syrup as a favor? From what I gather it's made on-site and the syrup was boiled down by burning methane captured from the landfill
I somehow didn't realize how much of the troubles in programming class lab would be fighting against microsoft.
Today's fun, having them copy lab7.c from last week to be lab8.c, and of course since windows apparently hides extensions by default suddenly everyone is working on lab8.c.c and can't figure out why the Makefile can't find their code changes
This is a repeat from last year, but Happy Easter!
Apple IIe double-hires scroller with some Mockingboard music
(Spring (2001) by Ivan Roschin)
Found this e-mail that apparently I sent to the linux-kernel mailing list 26 years ago today
I hadn't really gotten back into Apple II stuff yet by that point which explains the numerous technical mistakes in the e-mail...
(same image twice as the ALT text was too big for one image)
so this animation went mildly viral on twitter (yes, yes, I know. The pixel artists all still hang out there though). So of course I noticed a bug in the animation (most noticeable with the cow's tail). Here's the fixed version.
(the bug was when setting up the first two pages of the animation I drew to page1 when I meant to draw to page2)