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by unknownfile at 8:17 AM EST on November 13, 2006
I've been working on a Lagrange Point NSFE. go fetch
Results are in by unknownfile at 1:42 PM EST on November 16, 2006
As a result of an 82% average on my report card, I'm going to get $100 funding for a new SATA hard disk. I'm hoping to have one in the 300-400 GB range, that way I can store all the stuff on my Acomdata external on it.

Other neato stuff planned for this weekend:

- Bleach 11 (We're almost up to the Soul Society arc)
- The wiping of Fedora Core 5 from both my systems (I never use it), resulting in the death of UFBot
- Shitloads of homework (obviously)

Just got 25/30 on my most recent Turing test as well. :)

Last but not least, I'm already planning ahead on revamping both my systems, and possibly building another with allowance, aka my only source of funding.

Plans for Mist:

- Fill all the SATA controllers (1 is filled)
- New case with more oomph and fans
- Max out memory (try to get it to 8 GB, if possible)

Plans for Sea:

- New case
- Max out memory (maximum is 3 GB, to my knowledge)
- Replace optical drives
- New CPU (hopefully 2 GHz, it currently runs at 1.5 GHz)

Also, the name for the new machine I plan on constructing is Dew. (There's a pattern here somewhere.)
by hcs at 9:42 PM EST on November 16, 2006
So you passed a Turing test? Welcome to humanity.

Also, yay for Soul Society (looking forward to the eventual Kenpachi battle).
...and hard disk = installed by unknownfile at 5:37 PM EST on November 17, 2006
I now have my new harddisk running. Because the rediculously oversized fan is in the way of the second slot of the hard drive section (right above the Western Digital 160 GB disk I have), I put it in the floppy slot. It's now formatting, and I should be able to start moving stuff over from my old Acomdata external disk when it's finished.
Random Turing Project v1.0 by unknownfile at 1:35 PM EST on November 22, 2006
Tic-Tac-Toe. Placed here for those interested.
(I'd rather write this in cpp, but I don't know some functions.)

*** SOURCE CODE START ***

/*
Tic-Tac-Turing
written by Peter Conway
The AI is rather lame, but hey



Implement'd:
- board
- breaking from the loop
- input
- name selection

Todo:
- AI
- When someone wins, get out of the mainloop

*/

var humanplayername : string
var compuplayername : string
var move : boolean := true
var pwned : boolean := false % this ends the mainloop
var board : char (9) % this is a 3x3 board, so yeah

/*
board layout (in char)

1|2|3
4|5|6
7|8|9

solutions:
(horizontally)
1-2-3
4-5-6
7-8-9
(vertically)
1-4-7
2-5-8
3-6-9
(diagonally)
1-5-9
3-5-7

*/

function generatename : string
% generates a name
var randstuffs : int := Rand.Int (1, 10)
if randstuffs = 1 then
result "Frank"
elsif randstuffs = 2 then
result "Bob"
elsif randstuffs = 3 then
result "Joe"
elsif randstuffs = 4 then
result "Adam"
elsif randstuffs = 5 then
result "Alan"
elsif randstuffs = 6 then
result "Yourmom"
elsif randstuffs = 7 then
result "Pat the Cow"
elsif randstuffs = 8 then
result "Jimothy"
elsif randstuffs = 9 then
result "Cowfish"
else
result "Randomguy"
end if
end generatename

procedure domove
var cor : int
var spot : int
% Controls play movements from both the computer and the player.
if move = true then
% human's turn
locate (2, 1)
put "Please input where you want to put your marker"
put "coordinate: " ..
get cor
cls % we're done moving
if cor > 9 then
locate (20, 1)
put "That spot doesn't exist, idiot" % prevent a crash
elsif board (cor) = "N" then
locate (20, 1)
put "Spot is untaken"
board (cor) := "X" % This spot is MINE!
else
locate (20, 1)
put "This spot is taken"
end if
end if
end domove

procedure playerstats
% This displays the player names at the top of the screen
% Geez, can't you look at the name?!
locate (1, 1)
put "Player: ", humanplayername ..
if move = true then
put " * " % indicate that it's this player's move
end if
locate (1, 50)
put "Computer: ", compuplayername ..
if move = false then
put " * " % indicate that it's this player's move
end if
end playerstats

procedure getplayername
put "Please tell me your name"
get humanplayername : *
put "Thank you."
compuplayername := generatename
cls
end getplayername

procedure draw_box


locate (5, 10)
put " | | "
locate (6, 10)
put " _____|________|______"
locate (7, 10)
put " | | "
locate (8, 10)
put " | | "
locate (9, 10)
put " _____|________|______"
locate (10, 10)
put " | | "
locate (11, 10)
put " | | "
locate (13, 1)
put "Layout is as follows"
put " 1|2|3\n",
" 4|5|6\n",
" 7|8|9\n"
% now allocate stuff
locate (5, 12)
if board (1) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (1)
end if
locate (5, 20)
if board (2) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (2)
end if
locate (5, 28)
if board (3) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (3)
end if
locate (8, 12)
if board (4) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (4)
end if
locate (8, 20)
if board (5) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (5)
end if
locate (8, 28)
if board (6) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (6)
end if
locate (11, 12)
if board (7) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (7)
end if
locate (11, 20)
if board (8) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (8)
end if
locate (11, 28)
if board (9) = "N" then
put ""
else
put board (9)
end if
end draw_box

procedure mainloop
% This is the main loop.
% Tweakage in this loop would be quite nasty.
loop
draw_box % drawbox is reserved. damnit.
playerstats
domove
if pwned = true then
exit % we're all done here!
end if
end loop
end mainloop

% start()
getplayername
%initialise the board
for x : 1 .. 9
board (x) := "N"
end for
mainloop

*** SOURCE CODE END ***
by Josh W at 6:44 PM EST on November 22, 2006
looks bit like pascal.

C++ is unlike basic or turing because it has no such functions to clear the screen or put stuff at specific locations with color. Unless you use special windows functions like SetConsoleCursorPosition and FillConsoleOutputCharacter

C and C++ are a lot like regular people and rich-snobby people. Regular people can pass off as rich people because it is easy to imitate them, but rich people don't dare act like regular people -- it's uncouth ;)

edited 7:25 PM EST November 22, 2006
by unknownfile at 10:25 PM EST on November 22, 2006
Turing is Pascal-based according to the official documents.

And porting this to C++ would be interesting :)
by unknownfile at 9:57 AM EST on November 23, 2006
Did a bit more coding right now, stuff now implemented includes AI. The AI is somewhat buggy due to the if then else section that determines what to block.
by unknownfile at 2:55 PM EST on November 24, 2006
Newest version of Tic-Tac-Turing is up at http://unknown.hcs64.com/progs . I fixed an annoying bug relating to diagonal detection, but a bug that allows the computer to move twice still exists.

Anyways, I'm about to exit computer class and go home to a weekend and... homework, assignments and studying for tests >_<
by hcs at 10:25 PM EST on November 24, 2006
FWIW, the first original program I spent any time on was Tic-Tac-Toe, in QBasic. It had a theme song...
How not to program by unknownfile at 6:57 PM EST on November 28, 2006
Watch this video and see what happens when you don't program something correctly.
In UF's e-Box by unknownfile at 3:55 PM EST on November 29, 2006
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and congrats to IDIOT Dreaminsarbear who won the August contest! One year later, the devastation is still fresh in our minds, and we'd like to keep it in yours. Text-messaging service lets you send sms to a large group of people and manage evens from any mobile phones Mobile IM application enables you. All this and more, in sparkling Quicktime video no less. It may be cheap to buy, but it is not cheaply made.
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Blip Festival Day 1 by hcs at 3:48 AM EST on December 1, 2006
Awesome!
The recording idea failed due to a) stupidity b) lousy equipment.
8bitpeoples will be producing a DVD anyway, so those who were interested will get their chance to see the festivities.
And now, sleep.

edited 3:49 AM EST December 1, 2006
Jag ar flints, bitch by unknownfile at 11:26 AM EST on December 1, 2006
Today was a teacher's birthday. Since he's bald, we made his theme song "Let the Basskick (Jag ar Flints)" from Live Svajklubb. We played the song today in his honor.

Also, now that the recording idea has failed, what are you going to do with the equipment?
by hcs at 11:48 AM EST on December 1, 2006
I am going to return it ("this sucks, giveth my back mine monies") and use the money to buy shirts and CDs at the show :)
Blip Festival Day 2 by hcs at 6:08 AM EST on December 2, 2006


Picked up a few CDs. Herbert Weixelbaum was awesome, as was Rabato (not to say the others weren't also awesome, but these guys really stood out!)
Banninated! by unknownfile at 10:46 PM EST on December 3, 2006
Recent events caused me to write this song. I hope to perform it. *ahem*

*takes out guitar*
*strumma strumma strumma strumma*
AND SO I WAS BANNED
AND MY BRAINS WER CANNED
OW, OW, OW *headbanging*

I DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION
BUT THEY WERE TOO BUSY YIFFING TO RESPOND

MASTURBATING WITH THEIR CHEESE GRATERS
AND IN THEIR COCKS WERE CRATERS

LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I GUESS THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR AN ASS LIKE ME
BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S FUN TO DO SUCH A THING
EVEN IF IT MEANS LOSING YOUR ABILITY TO RHYYYYYYYME
*mild applause*

edited 10:47 PM EST December 3, 2006
Blip Fesitval Day 3&4 by hcs at 11:43 PM EST on December 4, 2006
First, you should listen to Herbert Weixelbaum's bline, he opened with it on Day 2 and it is one of the most awesome things I've ever heard.

Day 3:
I made it in time for the end of the This Spartan Life screening and for all of 8 Bit, which was a fairly interesting documentary (the sort of thing I might want to show my family to explain what the hell I'm into :)
The show...
I finally got over my antisocialness and met virt, chibi-tech, and others whose names utterly escape me. The show was great, can't really do it justice in words... Bud Melvin was funny and skilled, TouchBoy did a 20 minute (at least) mix that had me spazzing to the beat the whole time, don't let me leaving a name off the list indicate that they weren't awesome, virt has a much more detailed rundown of everyone.
I stayed for the whole show, which ended after 2 AM, which meant I missed the last train out of Penn Station, so I took the PATH with virt, Prozax, and cibi-tech back to Jersey. I then waited two hours in Newark for the next train, walked a few miles home from the train station, and promptly passed out.

Day 4:
This was the day of the Big Names... Jeroen Tel is incredibly good at what he does, and a good showman, too, picking the notes out of the air (though not nearly as energetic as, say, Nullsleep). Portalenz was great, after they instructed everyone to "BUY OUR CDs" I went over to the CD sale section and said "I want to buy their CDs", two of which are nice low-volume productions exclusive to blip festival with handwritten labels.
YMCK was just as crazy-cute-happy JPop as one might expect, a bit too happy for me.
Neil Voss seems not to perform very often, his music was great but he was pretty much just standing up there pressing buttons (not that that wasn't what nearly everyone else was doing, but they looked a lot more excited about it). He reminded me vaguely of Elijah Wood. After his set I stalked him around the room for a while until I could get his attention, introduced myself, complemented his work, and asked him about USF.
"Have you ever heard of USF?"
"I think so, but I'm not sure why..."
"It's a ripped format for N64 music-"
"Oh, yeah, Ultra Sound Format."
It turned out that not only had he heard of it, he had downloaded the player and rips and was entertained at how accurately it reproduced the bugs in the original playback software. He took down my email address and signed my program with "ROCK THE USF'S".
Awesome.
Took the PATH back again (I had taken it in this time, it actually makes more sense than the other route I'd taken), then helped chibi-tech run across Newark Penn Station with his luggage so we could make the train that was already in the station.

Best 4 days ever. Despite the troubles associated with getting there and back, and the huge amount of money I spent on transportation, food, and CDs, I regret nothing. I took some pictures with a black and white disposable camera that I bought from a guy who kept trying to sell me a digital camera at lower prices, but at that point I was almost out of cash.
COME NEXT YEAR AND BRING YOUR AWESOME!

edited 11:50 PM EST December 4, 2006
by unknownfile at 10:51 PM EST on December 7, 2006
Spent some time in #adc on Rizon, and we were having a discussion on philias. It was pretty hilarious, but then THIS happened:

<DarkLancer> i wanna know the fetish of fucking a vacuum
by hcs at 1:35 PM EST on December 8, 2006



edited 1:47 PM EST December 8, 2006
by unknownfile at 4:43 PM EST on December 16, 2006


...it's true :(
by unknownfile at 10:10 PM EST on December 17, 2006
From #nesvideos:

(22:08:16) _LSK_: I wish my butt could access IRC
(22:08:23) _LSK_: so there would be a party
(22:08:26) _LSK_: in my pants
(22:08:28) _LSK_: all the time

...ick.
attack of the dells by unknownfile at 12:33 PM EST on December 19, 2006
This week saw the transitioning of my school over to a more centralized system of networking, as opposed to saving stuff on a hard disk.

Yesterday, the computers were hauled out of the computer labs en masse, some of them being antiques (they were just capable of running Windows 2000). Our careers teacher decided to book us to the projector that day, but did not take into consideration that the projector couldn't be used. Bah.

So today, I arrived at school a few hours early. The stairwells and hallways were relatively empty, save for the girls walking around, gossiping on their cell phones. I wait a few minutes, then the cheesy music starts in the hallways, and that's my cue to get to class. Then I see boxes and boxes of Dells in the hallways. I didn't expect this many to arrive; a quarter of a stairwell was filled with computers and monitors!

So far, the computers are just running Windows XP and Windows 2000, but they will eventually be upgraded to *groan* VISTA.

Also, hcs went on a pretty funny rant yesterday, but I can't post it as I don't have logging capabilities enabled. Oh well.
How should I spend my time? by hcs at 3:16 AM EST on December 22, 2006
I'm on break now, after a pretty successful semester. Other than polishing up my resume in an attempt to get an internship over the summer and spending family time I won't be much occupied. So clearly I need to get working on something interesting.
The following are considered:
* SPC player for Rockbox (since pagefault has vanished)
* GC sequence playing (with a concentration on Zeldas, Mario Sunshine as well)
* THP decoding (not too interested as it is solved already)
* Something Interesting on the N64

I'm tending towards the SPC player... I'm dissuaded because pagefault has already, supposedly, got something good. I think I could get something usable together over break.

Other possibilities:
* finish up rockbox NSF player (needs very little work before it can be incorporated into CVS)
* addt'l work on wikipedia viewer

edited 3:24 AM EST December 22, 2006
by Mouser X at 7:57 AM EST on December 22, 2006
I say finish the NSF player. Then, either a SPC player, or the GC sequence player. If you think you can get a SPC player up and running fairly easily, then maybe you should create a temporary one, to tide you over until Pagefault's is done. Otherwise, I'd say get some work done on the GC sequence player. That'd be be awesome to have that available.

Glad to hear about the sememster. Enjoy your break. Hopefully, you can take some time to relax, and enjoy this time off. Mouser X over and out.
by unknownfile at 12:03 AM EST on January 1, 2007
New years, blah blah blah
Post pics of you having sexy time while drunk

(Just kidding)
by valiant at 11:07 PM EST on January 1, 2007
Either GC sequence playing or the pictures. As mentioned on GFF, a sound extractor for THP files would be great, too.
Or screw all that and celebrate your finished semester. ;-)
by Omochao at 7:45 PM EST on January 2, 2007
I say GC sequence, there a LOT of folks who want Twilight Princess, myself included
by hcs at 10:33 PM EST on January 2, 2007
Well, the problem with that is it'll be a long time before I get anywhere with it...
I've settled for cleaning up the NSF player at the moment.
by unknownfile at 10:44 PM EST on January 2, 2007
I got ahold of Chankast and a few Dreamcast BIOSes on eMule, and apparently a development one was included, downloaded off of SegaKatana. There are two major differences between the devkit and the retail version that I've noticed so far:

- The bootup screen has a different animation and music. shameless plug for youtube viewings
- It is impossible to get self-booting images working, as the devkit only allows GD-ROMs to boot.

Regarding BMS, I haven't worked on it in a while as I'm lazy and hcs doesn't look like he wants to decode the audio format.
Pimp My PC, Episode 2 by unknownfile at 2:43 PM EST on January 3, 2007
Mist is now in at the computer shop, where it awaits the following upgrades:

- a new case with better ventilation and a hard drive fan
- 1 GB of memory (which brings it up to 1.5 GB)
- a DVD-RW drive to replace a DVD-ROM drive

All of this was paid for by my parents, though I insisted that I paid for some of it.

I'm in an internet cafe in Chinatown right now, and there are guys at the other end of the room playing Counterstrike.
by unknownfile at 12:28 AM EST on January 4, 2007
The case has been installed. For some reason the CPU fan keeps going even though CPU usage is at 0%, which may or may not be a bad sign. It was like this earlier, though, so I'm not really concerned.
by unknownfile at 11:53 PM EST on January 6, 2007
hcs, I saw you credited on the Gekko website, what's up with that?
by hcs at 7:28 AM EST on January 7, 2007
I've expressed my interest in adding DSP support, I have the source code, so I guess they consider me on the team...
Mariokart DS emblem format decoded by unknownfile at 6:22 PM EST on January 8, 2007
Last night, I began work on a project that allowed someone to decode a Mario Kart DS emblem (captured over the Wifi adapter using Ethereal) into an image on a computer.

Here is the result.


On the right is my DS, and on the left is the image rendered in Turing.

Due to the lack of variety of colors that can be displayed on the Windows console, I am currently using Turing for image rendering by way of the Draw.Dot procedure.

The source code can be found nyah.

Also, to whoever changed the topic in #usf, thanks.
Computerstuffs and otherstuffs by unknownfile at 2:40 PM EST on January 12, 2007
Well, my portable PC's hard disk at school has finally died. The computer will be in for repairs during the next two weeks, because the mongoloids refuse to let me do it myself and at my own expense.

I'm still planning on building a new computer. I'm most likely going to be replacing Sea with this new computer after it's up and running.

I'm hoping for:

- 1 GB memory
- Intel Dual Core processor clocked at around 2 GHz
- Rackmount case
- UPS backup

I'll be using everything else from Sea, such as the CD-ROMs and hard disks.

Exams are coming up, the first being on Thursday of next week for computer science. I don't care about certain subjects, as I have a lot of knowledge in them so I am content that I don't need to study for them.

I'll hopefully rip 1080 this weekend if I am bored enough.

EDIT: No 1080 this weekend. I'm not interested in that. Let Josh do it.

edited 9:04 PM EST January 12, 2007
by hcs at 3:40 PM EST on January 15, 2007
rockbox SPC codec
by Prokopis at 3:24 AM EST on January 18, 2007
Hmm, this is making me start wondering again how likely the possibility of a java applet SPC player is. Anyone ever heard of one or somebody saying they were considering making one?


PS: zomgawd, zombie forum member!
by unknownfile at 9:43 PM EST on January 18, 2007
My latest project(ile):

void ASDF_PARSE(void) {    fread(executable_code_section,1,256,executable);
    for (int pc = 0; pc < 256; pc++) {
        // check instructions one-by-one to see if they are valid
        if (ASDF_CHECK_INSTRUCTION(executable_code_section[pc]) != 0) {
            printf("[ASDF_PARSE] error at 0x%x\n",pc);
            errors++;
        }
    }
    printf("[ASDF_PARSE] call to parser finished: %d error(s) reported\n",errors);
}

Can you guess what I'm writing?
by hcs at 11:25 PM EST on January 18, 2007
My latest project:
http://pastebin.ca/321173

shell script for extracting rsn and renaming spcs.
by unknownfile at 10:22 AM EST on January 19, 2007
Exams finished thus far:
- computers (We've finished Turing at last! Hoorah! ...but now we're moving into Flash. Ugh.)
- music (Note to self: Practice chords before class)
- English

Exams to be finished:
- math (should have little trouble)
- science (eep)
- history (should be easy)

Stuff to do this weekend (besides study):
- Get Sea back up and running (I shut it down for repairs, as there are bugs running about in the basement, and I don't want to have bugs crawling inside the system and frying it)
- Go downtown to purchase parts for building a new computer (yes, it's about time I did this) - maximum budget: $400 + whatever I have in my wallet
- Rip a random GSF/USF set if I'm in the mood
- ???
- Profit!
by unknownfile at 10:02 PM EST on January 20, 2007
Well, I finally got an Action Replay DS, and I tried to install fwnitro, but failed horribly (-$120). Now I can play mkds offline courses online :D
by Josh W at 3:38 AM EST on January 21, 2007
and i have a very difficult decision to make.

get 1Gb ram + 160Gb hdd...or 512Mb ram + 320Gb hdd.

Which will accompany a Pentium D 3Ghz
by hcs at 4:16 AM EST on January 21, 2007
gopher t3h ramz
by Josh W at 8:50 AM EST on February 3, 2007
well i've acquired Visual Studio .net 2005 and it seems to be quite more capable with 64th Note compiling than its predecessor, especially with optimizations turned on.

And with its maximum optimizations there can be a significant performance boost.

See here

by DrO at 8:28 AM EST on February 8, 2007
with the testing so far (have been running through all of the sets i pulled from the site) there haven't been any issues (that i can notice) with the newer 64th Note compile... make it an official new build, go on.. go on.. go on.. go on.. :)

-daz
by PokeParadox at 6:34 PM EST on February 11, 2007
I updated my GP2X player for in_cube formats up to the latest version of in_cube...

I'm not sure but I think I may have somehow broke ADX playback :S

Also the previous release of the player's source was used in a GP2X media player called Oldplay. And that does a lot better job of playback than my player >_>
fire hazard! by unknownfile at 12:34 PM EST on February 15, 2007
School had to be evacuated during reading time today since some idiot in the science department spilled chemicals. The school's currently in lockdown, and we are across the street at an elementary school. Thankfully, they are not giving me Grade 3 math... yet.

EDIT: disaster averted - we're back in class. Yay!

edited 1:11 PM EST February 15, 2007
by Josh W at 12:44 PM EST on February 18, 2007
urgh, my pc is still giving me the shits big time...so i decided to rig something up 'til my new hardware arrives...which the cpu and ram are still on back order. So im running this up on a Celeron 466 (OC'd to 576Mhz :)


Anyways i have come up to the conclusion that the heatsinks from ye olde Pentium 166 are much better than the one that i had and runs perfectly cool without a fan at all...well, when not overclocked.

i.e:


If i'm lucky my stuff will arrive before my birthday on thursday.
by unknownfile at 9:23 PM EST on February 19, 2007
Put an order in for some Gamecube modding equipment:

- Qoob SX chip
- IceCube replacement case

And of course, the Gamebit screwdriver.

Expect distractions on the 2sf project when it arrives.
by unknownfile at 9:06 PM EST on February 22, 2007
Was on Epileptic Gaming tonight. They were talking about a story about some idiotic UK professor who said that the Wii was a good way to exersize. I called in, saying that this was a complete crock-o'-shit.

The video will be up later and such.
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by unknownfile at 2:33 PM EST on February 26, 2007
Today I was in computer class, and we had a student teacher. He gave us 20 minutes to do a small assignment relating to arrays in Turing. The syntax is relatively long:

var numbers : array 1 .. 6 of int

... as opposed to C's, which is much shorter:

int numbers[6];

He also stuck the answers up on the internet, and the other students went and copied the answer. I wrote my own program in less than three minutes, leaving 17 minutes to do absolutely nothing.

For the record, here's that code:

% this is a really really basic exercise which I have been given 20 minutes to do
% I whipped this in less than 3, so yay

var numbers : array 1 .. 6 of int % because I can

put "input 6 numbers"
for i : 1 .. 6
% import given numbers into the array
get numbers (i)
end for

cls % clear up the cruft

put "here are the numbers in reverse"
for decreasing i : 6 .. 1
% OUT YOU GO, STUPS
put numbers (i)
end for


Was he assuming we knew nothing? Or was he just allowing us to waste time? The world may never know.

-p
Note to self - avoid soldering irons by unknownfile at 8:35 PM EST on February 26, 2007
I got my modchip today, along with a gamebit and a replacement case. After soldering the chip in, the Gamecube menu came up, so I knew something was up. A wire had been incorrectly soldered. So I fixed it, and then the Gamecube wouldn't boot.

It's bricked, it's toast. There goes $105.

But at least I got two things out of it - a replacement case and a gamebit! (And a burned index finger from a soldering error)
by PokeParadox at 6:43 AM EST on February 27, 2007
congratulations... you wasted money. Next time give it to me instead. ;)

That's a bummer really, sorry to hear it man.
by unknownfile at 8:45 AM EST on February 27, 2007
I s'pose I could get a pre-owned console and find a professsional to instal the chip. There are people at Pacific Mall who do that for a living and stuff.

EDIT: Sent off communications to the store to see if there's an installation guy in the area. I believe the problem in the bricking might be a short somewhere in the console which is screwing things up, but if the firmware is corrupt, then it's 100% useless.

edited 12:19 PM EST February 27, 2007
cubestuffs by unknownfile at 5:15 PM EST on February 27, 2007
I resurrected my Gamecube. Apparently something wasn't soldered right, so I'm going to take this to a professional when I can.

Also, hcs got the gamecube I sent him. Yay!
by PokeParadox at 5:37 PM EST on February 27, 2007
Thank goodness for that! So when can we expect funky Game Cube homebrew from you...
by unknownfile at 5:44 PM EST on February 27, 2007
never, I'm just a cheapass
by hcs at 4:32 AM EST on February 28, 2007
One might expect funky gc homebrew from me, but it'll mostly be of a boring reverse engineering variety. I'm going to try to document thoroughly, though.
by unknownfile at 11:00 AM EST on February 28, 2007
I found a guy who can install the Qoob chip that I have sitting next to the cube. It's downtown on Queen St., though, so I'm going to have to bribe dad into taking me out for lunch so I don't have to haul the Gamecube around on public transit.
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Today I tried out writing a couple of programs for the Canadian Computing Competition (a programming competition held by the University of Waterloo). I managed to get 3 programs written in C before the hour I had to write it (others had 3) expired.

The programs mostly involved sorting numbers and using string comparison.

edited 2:11 PM EST February 28, 2007
by unknownfile at 2:30 PM EST on March 2, 2007
bah, my gamebit is useless
by unknownfile at 12:09 AM EST on March 3, 2007
Tunnan released his latest CD, called "100% Homo". Many tracks were released over the last year or so.

Sadly, no live svajklubb :*(
by unknownfile at 12:35 AM EST on March 4, 2007
Finally have the Qoob SX installed.
by Josh W at 3:47 AM EST on March 4, 2007
another week passes. Another week my parts are still on backorder, well the ram is anyway.

I bought a laptop of eBay a few days ago, so i don't doubt that will arrive before the ram.
whitespace sucks by unknownfile at 2:43 PM EST on March 5, 2007
I got a problem in computer science again, which I decided to write in C. The problem is to figure out how to store the birthdays of a number of voters (in YYYY MM DD order with spaces), then to see if they are eligible to vote. I got a bit of a ways in but ended up swearing at the monitor because scanf cannot handle whitespace.

Here is some sample input and output from the buggy program.

C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Desktop>votingage
enter the amount of voters
1 <-- doesn't contain whitespace
please enter the ages of the voters in the format YYYY MM DD
1991 01 08 <-- string contains whitespace
birthday: 1991-0-0 <-- cannot read months and days past the whitespace
by hcs at 4:06 PM EST on March 5, 2007
ahem:
scanf("%d %d %d",&y,&m,&d);
The whitespace between the fields will make it skip over any whitespace.
Actually, putting just "%d%d%d" seems to work ok. Heck, just putting "%d" in three seperate scanfs seems to work alright. I can't tell what you're doing wrong... unless you're using %s, which can do some confusing things.

edited 4:15 PM EST March 5, 2007
by unknownfile at 1:48 PM EST on March 6, 2007
Thanks for the help, the program compiled and ran nicely.

Although, what's with the pointers in the scanf?
by hcs at 9:40 PM EST on March 7, 2007
I saw something interesting today and since I'm now carrying around the digital camera I borrowed from my mom I decided to take a shot. Didn't come out well at all, but I figured I might as well upload it anyway.

Crystalized salt from melted snow people tracked into a building.

edited 9:41 PM EST March 7, 2007
VRC6 up for grabs by unknownfile at 4:35 PM EDT on March 15, 2007
I have here a VRC6 chip which I'm willing to sell after I broke apart the Akumajo Densetsu PCB to convert it into a NES-to-Famicom adapter. Anyone who is willing to take a snag at it may do so.
by unknownfile at 1:49 PM EDT on March 19, 2007
I'm ordering a WiiFree modchip to support the opensource chip community. I'll be installing it myself as Wii installation is less trivial than Gamecube (you don't need to solder onto an IC).
turing vs c by unknownfile at 2:38 PM EDT on March 22, 2007
There's a program in the Turing documentations that clocks in at about 14 lines of code. The C equivelant? 22 lines.
brand new hobby: trolling facebook by unknownfile at 11:37 PM EDT on March 23, 2007
The subject says it all.

Due to recent idiocy from facebook users at another school I jumped onto facebook and am now looking for someone to troll. Hey, if facebook is for insecure assholes, why shouldn't I join?
by unknownfile at 5:15 PM EDT on March 25, 2007
I have built a PIC12f629 programmer, and I have ordered a couple of chips off of ]Newark. A lot of Wii modchips use PIC12f629 chips for storing the code, so I have ordered a couple to see if my programmer works, rather than just screwing up the chip I ordered.

Also cahks.
by PokeParadox at 7:45 AM EDT on March 26, 2007
Woo! Yeah a friend is sending me a WiiFrii chip and programmer... it will be nice to play some Homebrew GameCube stuff on my Wii :)
yet another useless program by unknownfile at 9:33 AM EDT on March 27, 2007
I whipped together a new program that disables the access of facebook through the HOSTS file in $sysroot$\drivers\etc. This will disable vanity from school if I can run it on some computers.

It got me using the chdir() procedure, too.
by unknownfile at 11:14 PM EDT on March 29, 2007
that chip better get there tomorrow or next week or i want my money bax
by unknownfile at 1:36 PM EDT on March 30, 2007
I am heartily raping bandwidth from the server by downloading SSBM for all of my friends at school (read: nobody) to enjoy. So please don't whip me. I don't like being whipped, I like whipping other people.
How I spend my time... by hcs at 2:50 AM EDT on March 31, 2007
while waiting for MSVS 2005 to install...
reading bash.
by unknownfile at 9:44 AM EDT on April 3, 2007
Got confirmation on one of my orders last night, should arrive sometime this week.
by Josh W at 11:42 AM EDT on April 3, 2007
well i finally got my parts last friday woo. Fear my 64 bit dual coreness.

after i get my assignments taken care of over the next couple of days i will be finally finalizing some sets.

These will include:

Banjo Tooie, Conker, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion,

And setting to release: Gauntlet Legends, Duke Zero Hour, Mario Golf, Ridge Racer 64.


Woo.
by unknownfile at 2:12 PM EDT on April 3, 2007
We are in class today playing around with Cha Cha, a search engine. This is a bit of a Turing test as we are unaware if the guide function is actually a computer or a person. Here are some logs that I put in.

Guide Session
Status: Connecting ...
Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: Selena(7347)
Selena(7347): Welcome to ChaCha!
Selena(7347): Hi there! Feel free to clarify your search if it might help me deliver more accurate results.
You: Hello, I'm looking for information on the wonderful world of CARPS. Also, do you have anything relating to BDSM? I'm into that kinda stuff. :)
Selena(7347): I'm sorry, but we're not allowed to search for anything pornographic in nature. May I search something else for you today?
Selena(7347): Session ending due to restricted content
Status: Session ended.


The next part was relating to shoop da whoop and IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER!! but it was apperntly obvious that the person I was talking to was a real person. I would have the log for it but I got the message "Abuse alert".

Hooray for spelling "dance" as "dnce".
by marioman at 3:41 PM EDT on April 3, 2007
That is great about the USF sets Josh! I will be keeping an eye out for the new releases.
by Arich Boss #2 at 1:35 AM EDT on April 4, 2007
I'm sorry for the second account, but I can't seem to remember my password...

Josh, I'd personally like to thank you. The Banjo-Tooie soundtrack (along with Conker's Bad Fur Day) is some of my all-time favorite music, and I can't wait to hear a quality version of the USFs. Your finalized Banjo-Kazooie rip has been an aural pleasure throughout the last few weeks.

Thanks again. And thanks for your all help, Mouser. It's people like you guys that make a forum great.
by Tanookirby at 10:50 AM EDT on April 4, 2007
You're from the rare witch project forums, aren't you? I've read your posts, and I'm glad you found the complete set.

Just a few notes when you make the mp3 verisons:

There's a second version of the Gruntilda's Lair theme that uses a wooden percussion instument in place of the chimes. It's used whenever one of the other variations is the Freezezy Peak Puzzle or Entrance.

Those music pieces for the game's level puzzles and their respective entrances are not always identical. Try listening to the the jigsaw puzzle and level entrance themes to Clanker's Cavern, Bubblegloop Swamp, Gobi's Valley, Mad Monster Mansion, and Click Clock Wood. (Since it doesn't use the main theme, the dynamic USF with CC's entrance theme and BS's puzzle theme has a shorter intro).

There are also three versions of the aquatic lair theme. The first is the normal version, the second has a shorter intro (mentioned in the above point), and the third has no laugh sound.

The MMM aqutic theme isn't unused. Remember the well?
by Arich Boss #2 at 1:02 PM EDT on April 4, 2007
I made MP3s the night I discovered the USFs, and since Grunty's Lair (Aquatic) popped up about 10 times, I simply deleted the ones that weren't necessary. Mine has the laugh (and it's the same length as all of the other lairs), so I think it was sheer luck on that fact.

Some part of my brain knew that the MMM aquatic theme wasn't unused. In my original mention of that, I was saying that the music was used, in the bucket (meaning the well, I haven't really played the later level in quite some time). Just trying to get that clear.

P.S. Thank you for clarifying. Not sarcasm.
by unknownfile at 2:29 PM EDT on April 4, 2007
er, joshfish didn't rip banjo kazooie
by Arich Boss #2 at 5:08 PM EDT on April 4, 2007
Sorry, I thought he did. I know it says, "Someone42" as the ripper, but I remember it saying "Josh W" when the USF rip first was released. I may be thinking of something else, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Edit: Er, I was thinking of Donkey Kong 64... the music sounds so similar, I guess they both got dislodged from when I originally processed the ripper usernames.

edited 5:12 PM EDT April 4, 2007
by Josh W at 11:50 PM EDT on April 4, 2007
nay, i didn't do Banjo Kazooie.

I did do Banjo Tooie however.
by Arich Boss #2 at 12:54 AM EDT on April 5, 2007
Ah, speaking of Tooie... how's your current progress going along?

Edit: I apologize for bothering you about Banjo-Tooie every so often, but I just love the music so much.. I can't wait to hear a quality version.

edited 1:03 AM EDT April 5, 2007
by unknownfile at 9:25 AM EDT on April 5, 2007
First he has to fix the dynamic tracks, as they sound like crap compared to the originals (too much reverb, tempo is off).
by unknownfile at 11:15 PM EDT on April 5, 2007
I'm connecting to the internet with my mind.
by Arich Boss #2 at 2:48 PM EDT on April 7, 2007
In the past, I downloaded the preliminary Banjo-Tooie rip, and only the boss tracks and select others came out decent. The day Josh's improved USFs come out will be a day of happiness.

On other note, the Adventure video is great. I'm not exactly sure how, but it was.

edited 2:50 PM EDT April 7, 2007
by unknownfile at 9:50 AM EDT on April 11, 2007
There's an ISU activity for everyone in my computer class, so I have decided to write a small webserver program in Turing. It's not really practical, though, as the Turing environment loves to eat up all the CPU on the machine as it can find.

Not a lot is implemented right now, just basic HTTP request and error handling. I'm starting to wonder if images can be sent or not...
by unknownfile at 9:06 AM EDT on April 13, 2007
I was in bed for a good part of yesterday, and now I am back in class where I belong, which is a good thing as staying in bed is equal to having no life.
I = fucking eediot by unknownfile at 4:42 PM EDT on April 13, 2007
Yesterday I nearly botched my Wii's DVD-ROM drive while installing a modchip, and today I finished the job by being smart enough to solder onto the IC legs. The DVD-ROM drive is now completely useless, but the Wii itself is still in good shape and can boot up Virtual Console games.

On a side note, it provided inspiration for this.

edited 6:25 PM EDT April 13, 2007
stupid poetry by idiots, volume one by unknownfile at 9:10 PM EDT on April 13, 2007
she's never on msn
she never takes my calls
if i would've gone and asked her
she would've kicked me in the balls
Return of the Lagrange Point NSFE by unknownfile at 2:44 PM EDT on April 15, 2007
Thanks to google search, I dug up the tracklist for Lagrange Point. My associate Joshfish is now downloading the mp3s for the soundtrack so that I can proceed a bit further with this.
Ranting Inc by unknownfile at 12:03 PM EDT on April 19, 2007
I have set up a repository for my rants.

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