despair labs

A couple of weeks ago I placed an order with BatchPCB for the N64 RGB DAC board.

Ok, so what am I working on.

I was supposed to blog more often, but as usual I missed it.

Here it is, first post of the new year on the last day of my almost-four-week break from work.

Work is sending me on a Perl Training Australia course this week, so I’m getting to hang out with Paul and Jacinta and get a good refresher on Perl OO.

Day two of training today.

The last couple of months have been busy but I’ve managed to find bits of time here and there to hack on the new AROS hosted port.

My current bus activity is AROS hacking.

Gub and Penny went out with a friend last night, so with the girls in bed I got a solid five hour block all to myself.

I’m pretty sick right now and was just getting ready to go to bed when someone knocked on the door and handed me a package: Its my birthday present!

Long ago I wrote a SDL driver for AROS hosted.

It would appear I’m back in the AROS game for a little while.

I had a bit of time to today to read about how to get older consoles to make nicer pictures on the big screen and found that things are much simpler than I thought and this shouldn’t be that hard and quite a bit less expensive than expected.

After my lack of motivation I’ve had a couple more interesting ideas and so I’ve started very slowly poking at them, being very careful to not overdo it in an attempt to avoid the burnout.

So, long time huh.

A few random things I’ve been working on lately: Started migrating this blog into ikiwiki.

I’ve been getting into Perl again in a big way.

I started writing a long post about what I’m working on right now, but its really quite disjointed because I realised I don’t actually have a point to make.

I have a little treat for the adventurous today.

A week later: The major new things compared to my last post are the addition of the page title (and progress bar), the URL entry bar, and scrollbars.

A couple of hours work on yesterday’s effort, and we see this: Had I known just how close I was, I probably wouldn’t have even bothered posting yesterday.

Current progress: This is WebKit on AROS rendering a trivial page containing a H1, a H2, a DIV with CSS styles set to force to 100x100 with a green background, and a IMG of a pirate, though thats not working yet.

AROS work has slowed down over the last week.

As you know, I’ve been at linux.conf.au this week.

I’m at linux.conf.au this week and because I’m so well practiced at listening to people talk while doing something unrelated on the laptop (thanks dayjob), I’ve got a hell of a lot of code done, making up for the nothing I did over the weekend.

Things got a little slow in the last week.

As far as cairo is concerned, its backend buffer get/set methods are only required to store and retrieve pixel data in the format requested by the cairo core.

Cairo is working!

A year ago today I made my first commit to the AROS Subversion repository.

With the help of WebKit developers I finally sorted out the crasher that plagued me over Christmas, and now I see WebKit making network requests, receiving data and calling into the graphics code to get it on screen.

Christmas and New Year festivities are over, and I enjoyed them thoroughly.

Hi.

This is week is insanely busy, as is typical of the week before Christmas, so I’ve had very little time to think about code in the last couple of days.

Now that I’ve (apparently) fixed the loader, my mammoth WebKit test binary loads and runs, and so I’ve begun implementing the stub functions with earnest.

I just now have the extensions to the ELF loader implemented such that my gargantuan WebKit test binary loads.

I wrote a simple launcher for WebKit that creates a WebCore::Page, attaches it to a WebCore::Frame, then tries to load the Google homepage with it.

Just a followup about the whole _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ thing.

I’m a little stuck.

Today marks a major milestone for the WebKit port.

This week I’ve been working on another WebCore dependency, though a little different to the previous ones.

Late Friday I reached a minor milestone when I got the platform-independent part of WebCore fully compiling and linking.

Michal writes about his continuing pain with the Amiga LONG/ULONG types on 64-bit AROS.

I finally finished my dependency porting stuff, with libxml2 coming to life late last night.

Today I finished porting cURL, a library for getting things from the internets (or actually, anything with a URL).

Quick one before bed: a port of OpenSSL, which is needed for cURL, which is needed for WebCore.

The results are in.

Just a few quick updates.

Ever wanted to name a web browser?

Its been a big week of AROS coding, with a milestone being reached last night: JavaScriptCore, the JavaScript engine inside WebKit, is now compiling and running inside AROS.

I just finished implementing posix_memalign().