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Trying to Be More Organised

There’s loads of blog posts and YouTube videos explaining how to be more organised, how to stop procrastinating, and how to generally be more productive. None of them seem to be written for people who are busy, rather than trying to avoid work.


Ecs Entity Component System

Let’s make a game engine properly, rather than beating on it until something works. This time, I’m creating an entity component system.


Chromebook Facial Control Is Cool

My #Chromebook just had another update, and it’s now gained the ability to be controlled using facial gestures. And it’s pretty cool.


Davinci Resolve Proxy Files

It turns out making proxy files is quite important when editing video across your LAN. Don’t edit video across your LAN, it ends in tears and frustration.


Davinci Resolve Collaboration

I’ve worked out how to work on the same Davinci Resolve project from two different computers, at the same time.


Borland C Dos Programming

I ditched DJGPP for now and am using Borland C++ 3.1 that I found on some abandonware website. I even sent the user manual to an online document printer to get it bound into a real book.


Forcing DOS onto an unwilling ThinkPad R60e

I decide that doing DOS development means I need a real computer, rather than an emulator. I have an old laptop, surely making it run DOS can’t be that hard, right?


Bring back physical buttons!

At least polling a physical button can be done with electronics that don’t require running code, meaning you can always program one of the buttons to be a “reset” switch if needed.


Emulation Sucks

… because it’s so realistic you still have to put up with the same problems you had 30 years ago…


Dodgy DOS Development

From the mind that brought you “let’s try to write games using just pure C” I have a new idea for making my life difficult.

Let’s write DOS software using period correct tools…


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