Zipplet's Stuff

I added a page about my new memorybrick programmer device to the electronics section.

I'm also thinking about building a homebrew Z80 computer system, which will be opensource hardware

Edited on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 at 02:36 UTC

Hi, I have a Livejournal now which I use to post things that aren't really worthy of the blogs/news on this site - yes, I know, 2 blogs - think of it more as a personal or real life blog, whereas the blog on this website is more for project progress and such. See it at http://zipplet.livejournal.com/

I've been doing a lot of work with PIC microcontrollers and electronics, and my personal commitments too with work and my girlfriend, so I haven't worked much really on PPC over the last month. Remember, I am not paid a single penny to work on my projects.

I am pleased to announce that PPC is still on track with the new schedule I posted. What happened to the hit counter? Some people were deliberately increasing the number of hits - why, I don't know. Until I fix it to only display unique hits, it is disabled. It wont be too long until I do that I hope.

On another note, I'm 22 now.. getting old

And on yet another note, walkman > iPod, in so many ways.

I was going through my old projects last night, and found a lot of stuff I'd forgotten about, including one very useful program called Force Reader. This program is able to recover previously unreadable and corrupted files from optical media which you simply can't get to. A friend of mine used it to recover a lot of anime from some old CDs, with a very high success rate. Most of the files were not corrupted at all, and a few of them had some corruption (Force Reader inserts blank blocks into the output file if it really can't get that part to read).

I am probably going to remake this utility in delphi and improve the reading method, as I have some ideas to minimise the size of corrupted blocks.

All in due time, PPC first!

It's that time of year again, so I'll post a couple of screenshots of my current desktop - I always find it interesting to see how other people arrange things, so I post mine.


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On another note, I really need to update my CMS to support image-links, so that I wont have to always add a link underneath for enlargement!

I built myself a new computer, some may think the lighting is overdone but I like it http://www.zipplet.co.uk/computer/

PPC (Pokemon PC) is going to have to be renamed - because I learnt of the existance of another pokemon fangame which was started earlier than mine. Once I decide on a name I'll make it known here.

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This took more work than it probably looks

I've picked up the code base for PPC and I'm working on it - currently the world editor, which is required before I can do much else. I've settled on opcode-like scripting, since it's simple yet flexible at the same time

I'm on a new PC now so development is a lot more fun, with a larger monitor too!

There *is* some news coming soon, I've been occupied with some other things in my life hence the lack of updates! I'll keep you lot posted.

I've now added a section for Planet Tetris Attack under Games on the navigation to the left. I'll keep everything about this clone on that page

My biggest ever game project, Pokemon PC, has now officially started (as LightX is now useable)