Thursday, April 10, 2008

Ultimate DS Homebrew Guide and F.A.Q.

Yesterday I typed up a guide to getting homebrew onto the ds and just about everything else related to ds homebrew, I'll be posting it onto this blog soon, however until then here's the link to the forum that I posted it on:
http://forums.wizzhack.co.uk/index.php/topic,355.0.html

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Started Tweeting Again!

Thanks to a post by fsckin in his blog, I've now started using twitter again, which in turn will make me start posting to this blog more often, lately I've been getting a lot of homework from school, and I've been having problems with Classic Snake, which kept me away from the blog, however I'm done with all the large homework assignments and Classic Snake is now taking much less time, so I'll be posting here a lot more often. I've been thinking of switching to wordpress soon, as it has some nice features that blogger(or blogspot) lack, so I'll be trying it out a little bit over the next week.
In two weeks I'll be going to Mexico and building a house for a very poor and currently homeless family, as part of a mission trip with my churches youth group, so I'll be away. Once I'm back I'll have quite a lot to write about, with my experiances and etc. so this blog will really start to get updated a lot.
Anyway thats all I've got for now cya.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

been away...

Hey there again blog! I've been away for about a month now, due to many things. First of all, I'd had hives for about a month now, also I've had some problems getting OS's installed on my eee (XP mainly), but now I'm all fine and back home. I just got back from a trip with my school's band, we spent 5 days at Walt Disney World, and played our music for anyone who'd listen, we also marched around in one of Disney's parades. The trip was structured, however we were allowed to go wherever we wanted, with whoever we wanted in the park for that day. It was a great trip that I'll probably end up writing more about later, however now I'm just glad to be back home.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

EEE

Hurray!, today I finally got my eee pc, and I love it. In fact I'm writing this post on it right now. Everything about it is perfect, however the small keyboard does take some getting used to. I found a good way to get used to the keyboard was using the included typing application, even tough its more for kids and people still learning how to type, I found it quite challenging in the hardest mode, and now I'm typing faster than I have with any other keyboard. This weekend I'll be installing Windows XP, and after that I'm going to install ubuntu with libnds.
I'll get going on all my ds games in the next week or two, and to push myself even more, im setting a deadline for classic snake, The end of the month. Once I'm done with classic snake I'll finally start working on pinball creator. All of this will go by very fast because I'll be on a plane trip to florida with my schools marching band. That should help me a lot with my programming.
I should have a full review of my new favorite device, my eee, very soon.

In other news, I've just signed up with Pownce, a social networking site, my username there is emudeath, and I should be online quite often, so add me as a friend

Friday, February 1, 2008

HUGE DELAY

Well I've just finished my mid-year exams at school, and they were pretty hard, keeping me from my computer, and therefore this blog, for awhile. I've got some news, I'm getting and eee pc next week. It should help me post here more often, and help me work on my programming more often. Also due to the mid-year exams I've been unable to learn the new ds programming library that I'll be using in Pinball Creator, so I'm a little behind in everything. I hope to get started on it soon. However before I release that, I'll be working on a clone of the old fashioned snake game, like the ones that were on the old nokia(?) cell phones. Once I'm done with that I promise that I'll work on pinball creator.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Hello World!!!

Woot!!! I finally got PAlib and PAGfx working on my brand new Linux computer, in case you care here's the output file:
main.c
arm-eabi-g++ -g -mthumb-interwork -mno-fpu -L/home/tom/devkitpro/PAlib/lib -specs=ds_arm9.specs main.o -L/home/tom/devkitpro/PAlib/lib -lpa9 -L/home/tom/devkitpro/libnds/lib -lfat -lnds9 -ldswifi9 -o build.elf
Nintendo DS rom tool 1.36 - Oct 23 2007 14:30:40
by Rafael Vuijk, Dave Murphy, Alexei Karpenko
built ... pinball.ds.gba
dsbuild 1.21 - Oct 23 2007
using default loader


I'm so happy, now I can finally begin working on my game!

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Happy New Year

Its been awhile since I last posted and so I thought what better time then the new year, I'll also try to make a resolution to post more often, anyway, I've finished getting my Linux computer up and running, even with PAlib, which took a ton of time, and now I'm able to start coding pinball creator!(title is only temporary).

Also I just got back from a youth meeting at my church, and we're going to Mexico in April and building a house for some poor people in Mexico that can't normally afford a house, however we need to make some money, so I'll try to set up a chip in so people can donate, we need $4000 just for materials, thats not including air fare for everyone, food, and drinks(we can't drink the water there). So I hope some kind soul stumbles upon this blog and donates even just a little money, we could use it. Thanks