Oh dear, a post at such a time in the morning can only mean one thing. I can’t sleep. The summer holidays are nearly over and to be honest I’m a bit down about it. I’ve got to get back into the studying mindset and get my weekly schedule sorted out. This week won’t be too bad ...

Phew, looks like Quake GameCube was pretty popular. As of now, it’s been downloaded 362 times. Who knew there were so many GameCube homebrew fans! There’s all kinds of discussion going on about it on various forums and as much as I’d like to respond to all the queries, all those fo ...

A new Wii firmware update came out a day or so ago. I thought “woo, new features!” and hastily updated my Wii. Today I read that Datel’s Freeloader (used to legally boot imported GameCube games) no longer works. I thought I’d better check that Datel’s SD Media Launcher ...

I took a break from Cave Story this week to work on Quake for the GameCube. There had been a couple of long-standing bugs which halted progress on Quake. Firstly, the SD card library seemed to be reading garbage data occasionally, which would generally manifest itself as corruption when loading the ...

Last time I mentioned writing a common abstraction layer for Cave Story as an intermediate step to getting it up and running on the GameCube. I decided on SDL for handling as much of that layer as possible. This has a few advantages: I can test the port on Windows. I don’t have to write so mu ...

Well, someone must have been taking pity on my and my excruciatingly long train journey filled day yesterday, because I found this little gem on my morning news trawl. I’ve been a Princess Bride fan since the first time I saw it, years ago, so it’s a bit of a no brainer that I would [... ...

And we’re back! By which I assume that the scheduled down-time while our server was migrated to another data centre has been completed without a hitch. I did intend to post here that it was going to happen, but it did in fact catch me by surprise because I thought it was supposed to be [...] ...

Or so it feels - I can barely keep my eyes open. A combination of a very long couple of weeks and a cat who my girlfriend has somehow trained into believing that scratching on our bedroom door from 3:30 am onwards is a good way to get food has left me more than a [...] ...

Pros: 40 minutes saved walking to and from office = 40 minutes extra work time Hot tasty food for lunch instead of just sandwiches Can use break time to go out and do much needed food shopping Cons: Cats alternating between walking on my keyboard while I’m typing, and lying nearby looking ...

Hurrah - we survived another holiday season. No, not holiday season, that’s a bit too P.C. Christmas damn it! We survived another Christmas. It doesn’t just have to be for the Christians. It’s a holiday all about giving, receiving, and generally keeping the happy little consumer dr ...