Sunday, April 18, 2004

Slashdot's recent postings on Interactive Fiction (here and here) got me looking at a few of the games. I was always a big fan of Infocom's text adventures on my Apple ][. A couple of Adam Cadre's interactive fiction that I've recently tried are very good. In particular 'Photopia'. A great story and you can finish it in an hour. Or the mind bending 'Shrapnel'. Don't read the spoilers about them before trying them though! They are more story than game and quite short but thought provoking and different. 2:53:24 PM

I've compiled wxWindows v2.5.1 for the Zaurus PDA running the pdaxrom. The wxwindows_2.5.1_arm.ipk file is 4MB. Some examples from the distribution are in the 130KB wx_examples.tar.gz file. Untar the examples in any directory after installing the ipk. It includes bomb (Minesweeper), Life (Conway's Life) and a fractal mountain drawer.   2:42:46 PM

Version 0.9.3 of the Alice Programming System has been recently released. Highlights of the release include: Overloading Exhaustiveness and redundancy checks for patterns Polymorphic print functions for debugging Syntactic support for assertions Much more efficient remote procedures Mozart 1.3 compatibility Alice is a function language based on Standard ML. It is extended with support for concurrent, distributed and constraint programming. The 'short tour' provides a nice overview of what it has. 1:50:10 PM