Not So News


26/07/01I've written a Windows program for connecting Yaroze games over the internet. It's untested so please give it a go and let me know how you get on. The test version is available here . I havent worked on Lands of Midnight recently, and I don't know if I'll be going back to it. If you want to see how far I got, which isn't far, you can download it here.
31/01/01I've put together a compression library for the yaroze, check the Projects page for a brief description, or download straight from here. I'm still working on Lands of Midnight, but I've not done a lot recently. If nothing else comes up I'll be going straight back into it.
02/09/00 Okay look, I'll be honest, I havent been spending every spare hour of every day yaroze programming. It's in-excusable I know, and I'll try harder in future. That said, I've written a little demo of Lands of Midnight, check out the Projects section.
09/01/00 After mucking around with this and that for the last few months it's about time I made an attempt at a game. Since starting a new job in October I've done next to nothing yaroze-wise. Living and working in London midweek hasn't helped matters as I've not got a PC there, but at the moment I'm looking to spend some of my hard-earned cash on a laptop. Anyway I've made up my mind on the sort of game to create. For vague provisional details see the Projects section.
11/10/99 Daniel J. Dobson has pointed out a problem when using Cyclone. If a call to exit() is made within the yaroze application, Cyclone is unaware the application has terminated and will not terminate itself, which leads to errors being reported by Cyclone as the playstation CIP program attempts to communicate with the PC. To avoid this problem, don't make any calls to exit() after sio_open() has been called, and always match a call to sio_open() with a call to sio_close() before the application terminates.
20/9/99 When creating your own applications that use Cyclone's psx library libcyc.a, you'll need the updated version of the libps.a library to be able to compile it. The original library that comes with the yaroze dev kit doesn't contain the ioctl() function. The update is available on the Sony server
here. This information has also been added to the Cyclone documentation.
17/9/99 The original CodeWarrior library that came with Cyclone didn't work, it has been replaced with a working version inside the main zip file. If you need only the new library download
cwlibfix.zipfrom my ftp. Otherwise, if you've not tried Cyclone yet, download cyclo20a.zip. See below for details on Cyclone.
17/9/99 Put a bit of life into this page (at last).