So i have been lurking around in reddit.com for quite some time now but today i saw a post were people was talking about there experience with pokemon and kids and finally decided that i could give away my yellow gameboy pocket together with the original Pokemon red and blue to some kid that could otherwise never afford it. Sharing the experience i had when i was a kid playing the game for hours straight.
And here is the post on reddit.com
I’m planing on starting up some small game projects in Flash using either actionscript or haxe with all open source softwares, just to look at the possibilities of doing interactive flash things using this tools. It looks to be a bunch of different ways of compiling and making this possible but i have a hard time getting going because i can’t seem to find a good IDE to start development in. I currently use Eclipse with Flex plugin for work but is very unpleased with this solution and since this Flex plugin is a commercial product it’s not really what I’m looking for.
The closest thing Ive come across for mac is using MacVim with plugins, i have been trying all kinds of syntax plugins, omni-completion plugins (no auto-completion plugin available) but nothing seems to work, the syntax plugins Ive tried gets weird results in most of the files Ive loaded, omni-completion is just not working no matter how many times i press CTRL-X or CMD-X. MacVim looks really nice but it also looks like it would be a lot of hard work just getting to know the editor.
I have known about FlexBean for NetBeans witch is my IDE of choice, there is also nbflex and flex-bean but development for all of this projects seem to have halted.
Does anyone out there know of a good IDE for developing actionscript on mac? what are people using?
There is just something about me that makes me so happy every time i find something extremely nerdy that i can tinker around with, and today i was looking for an easy way to make music the chiptune way and i came across MilkyTracker, i cant say that its easy to understand everything that is happening on the tiny screen, but it feels like it can be something one could learn in a couple of days with enough time on ones hands.
This post is very old but i think the technique still works, but i recommend using MacPorts over DarwinPort.
This weekend i was having trouble finding out a good and easy way to stream video from my mac computer to my xbox360, i needed to do this because xbox360 for some reason wont accept the HFS partition on my external drive because i made the partition inside Mac OS using DiskUtility, so i figured why not try to go back to streaming content the way i used to do in the past.
The trouble then was to find a good software that would alow streaming, i first tried to use XBMC which has a build in UPnP server, but the Xbox360 wont recognize and list that one for some weird reason. Then i remember that i used to have a small software called uShare on my old linux system, and i looked it up and it turns out that there is a port available for this software using DarwinPorts. I decided to give it a try and the installation was pritty much straightforward.
After you have installed DarwinPorts to your system you just run the following command:
sudo port install ushare
and after that you get a sample config in /opt/local/etc/ushare.conf.sample so just make a copy from this to the same directory with the name ushare.conf:
sudo cp /opt/local/etc/ushare.conf.sample /opt/local/etc/ushare.conf
now we need to edit some things inside this config file, i personaly like using nano for editing. for this you need first to install nano..
sudo port install nano
sudo nano /opt/local/etc/ushare.conf
The config is kind of self explanatory, but when it comes to setting up which the network interface you need to write en0 or en1 instead of eth1,eth0 just run the command:
ifconfigand you can see what interface you are going to run, on my MacBook Pro i use en1 because that is the wireless connection. In the bottom of the config you will find a line that sais ENABLE_XBOX=, this should be set to yes obviously but also this needs to be changed to:
USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX=yes
If you don’t know which path to enter this is how you add your default Movies directory on the mac:
USHARE_DIR=/Users/username/Movies
Twitter seems to be the main thing right now and most people doesn’t seem to know why, maybe it’s just because people are attracted to the whole online celebrity thing that has happen to many blogers but just to lacy to write relevant post and therefore try their luck at writing 140 character posts every 10 minutes. I personaly like to keep updated with Boxee news the twitterway but that’s also as far as it goes for me.
The Behemoth is showing of a very early version of an upcoming game, it looks really cute but we will have to wait until 2010 for a release.
We learn: It’s a platformer, it’s very multiplayer-orientated (as if you couldn’t have guessed that Behemoth would make a multiplayer game) and it’s to be released 2010. Sometime. From what it looks like, it would appear that there are both multiplayer co-op and versus modes bundled in there to enjoy. Let’s hope we’ll be getting some online action on the go come next year!