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It has been more than two months since we've resupplied, I'm surprised we still find things to eat on this boat. We're soon going to have nothing but rice, sprouted legumes and picked carrots to eat. Neither of us is ready to head south tho, so we'll stretch our stores for as long as we can.
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  @neauoire I assume the Cortes Market is too small to be useful right now (? or maybe just expensive) but IIRC you aren't terribly far from the town of Campbell River which seems to have... Save-On, RCS, Walmart, and a few local shops! Sounds like a prime place to restock and head further north to yet-quieter anchorages! :) Treated myself with the writing of a little rom that can parse #uxntal macros and output a pre-processed .tal file. That means that I can assemble a project with macros through drifblim, which is kindda neat. docs: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/drifblim.html @neauoire You write that you have 2 choices of using the rom, but there is actually 3: compiling the rom to the target architecture by hand! Interesting story here: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=38m38s "It used to be that programming was practically an inalienable right for users. Include a language with the system, situated in a friendly spot. "
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@neauoire "And what's a kid going to do with Visual Basic? Build a modal dialog? Forget coding for XBox. Requires registration in the XBox" Ok so funny thing about this sentence, with an xbox one and $15 to sign up for the indie developer program, I'm pretty sure one *can* write visual basic programs for xbox. I don't know if anyone ever did, but UWP was weird like this. I don't think that's in conflict with the author's point at all, though. @neauoire the article is from 2003, but today we have excellent and accessible programming languages for children: Scratch for example https://scratch.mit.edu/ or installing python is not complicated. Or I started out scripting computercraft in Lua. @eli_oat I've added a new command that might be interesting to you, interactive fiction-wise. `STOP` it will ignore all normal slide controls for that slide, so if you have LINKs, it will force the visitor to use the LINK to go to the next slide, using the arrow keys or clicking will not advance to the next slide. You can now specify fancy procedural patterns to Adelie 🐧 "How can the ship be sinking? The bow of the ship is higher in the air than it’s ever been before!"   it’s dry where I am! It’s completely normal for a boat to go up and down a bit, you’re over-reacting This ship is so big and well-designed that no one could possibly sink it no matter how many holes they drill! Well maybe there’s some flooding in the lower decks, but I’m rich enough it won’t affect me up here in 1st class @neauoire At this point, I'm considering Nowhere vaporware. Just hope they made it through the earlt stages of the pandemic.
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 I've been adding simple conditional blocks to Adelie, so you'll soon be able to do like: *clicks door*
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  @neauoire i actually have never heard of urbit, and i can't tell what it is really from the website either lol. do you dislike it? @neauoire Ah, the computing stack that ends up depending on "jets" for things like decrement operation. @eli_oat I realized last night that I pushed a broken commit that doesn't allow for more than one link region at a time.. 🤦♀️ @eli_oat so far I've been guessing at it, but I could make it so mouse2 prints the coordinate of where you clicked?  @neauoire what is this? what is adelie? (except of penguin name)... OS? presentation creator? game maker? lol  I've been adding rectangular link areas to slides in Adelie, so people can craft little interactive graphical novels. I think I'll even add basic conditional commands, a-la "if key = 1 then skip next command" The idea was suggested by @eli_oat @neauoire @eli_oat How long until we can expect a demake of The Manhole? (apparently the whole thing can be found with mac emulator on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheManholeMacintosh) A little(24kb) #uxn interactive graphic novel engine using plain-text format sources. Rekka and I can't get over how beautiful these Adelie slides are.  |
