oh well, SWARM patch for gcc4 will be for you only then

i really hate when abandoned software remains abandoned even if patches are sent for bugfixes and stuff! You'd just need to apply it, check it doesn't break anything and publish the new release! then you could continue keeping your software abandoned

SWARM is a SoftWare ARM emulator - nice idea - too bad that doesn't compile cleanly with new gcc4! i wrote a patch for updating all non-standard C++ apis and succeeded in having it compiled with modern compilers!
you can guess that the patch was completely ignored! i didn't expect full credit on the homepage but at least a "hey thanks, but not interested" or something!

since i don't like my work to be wasted i'm posting the patch here, hoping that other poor guys that have to use it can at least have it compiled on their own machine (instead of a virtual machine as slug as hell like i ended up)

enjoy

what do phone assistance lines have against me???

I don't know, maybe I sound rude on the phone, or maybe i just have bad luck, but every time I have to deal with phone lines for assistance I never get what i want, or i have to wait indefinetely for very simple tasks!

let me show you three examples from my life, one ended, one in couse and one future

Nintendo Odissey
one of my Wiimotes breaks down and i send it for repairs under warranty; they misteriously lost a SIGNED package and refuse to give it back to me! I spent on the phone almost as twice as the value of a brand new Wiimote because I called Nintendo assistance almost 3 times a week for a WHOLE YEAR!!! They claimed that their lab never received anything and most likely i wasn't worth a repair... i ended up mailing the consumer defence association and the repair company directly begging for my poor wiimote...
in the end they sent it back without saying anything or being sorry

The missing bite
i sent my first gen aluminium iMac for a check up and for a silly problem they switched me to a more noisy second generation iMac... this is almost my fault but the funny part begins with the refund for the AppleCare on that iMac: since a couple of years in Europe you just need a (very long) single code to send money between banks and this has simplified things a lot! However, assistance wanted a further code (the SWIFT or BIC) that i didn't have, but actually i didn't want to give because there's no real need for it! What really set me angry is that they asked me for it only after three months after request for refund! Couldn't they tell me they needed it right away???
in the end i found the code, email them, but the person charge for handling my refund moved department, so i have to return to level 1 support (which mean more time waste to get what i want)

Click and run
i subscribed for a deagostini course and every month had to pay a given sum; after some time i didn't like the course any more and thought that by not paying they'd stop sending me useless stuff. That was very dumb of me, because i ended up in having to pay other three issues... I was even dumber in believing that paying all three in a single solution (instead of three single payments) would save me time, but it appears that they haven't found my money order in their records! So now i have to send the receipt by fax and hope for the best

Conclusion
well they're all very silly problems and nothing i should really worry about, but these events tend to rise your need of daily blood in general, as temptation to kill is maximum when you end the call. You can see how near to the solution but are forced to stay away from it for very stupid problems; and when you win your case, you always feel a bitter taste for all the time you've wasted!

PS
i'm posting here all the details i was able to gather about my nintendo case! I hope they might be useful if they someone gets in similar problems

servicetrade -- via palù, 36040 grumolo delle abbadesse (VI)
fax: 0444 263520 / 0444 263540
tel: 0444 263511 / 0444 263544
mail: info@stitaly.it
person in charge: margaret / EMTS
links: http://www.stitaly.it/ http://www.emtscenter.it/azienda/contatti.asp?lingua=it
nintendo info: 199191199
nintendi service: 199309067

PPS
Have a nice summer :)
Vittorio

Xcode template madness

so today i wanted to order a little the list of Xcode templates, as user templates normally are placed in random locations: some in the preferences, some in the user library and so on

this is the list were both the standard templates and the user templates are
/Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates
/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Project Templates
~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/
/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates

you can move templates where you like them

some docs

a quick post to advertize new docs by Tibia!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16959893/Controlli-Automatici
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16959904/Introduzione-allAnalisi-in-TempoFrequenza
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16959906/Sistemi-Elettronici-Digitali

plus a little gift from me, the slides of my final thesis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16959927/slides-Parallel-and-Distributed-Computing-on-Low-Latency-Clusters

Hedgewars on the iPhone?? perhaps one day...

Let me first clarify that the blog posts across the internet claiming that an iPhone version is "near completion" are nowhere near the truth!

In fact the idea of porting the game originally started one year ago, but was soon dismissed because of lack of manpower/equipment. Everything remained silent until i joined development and i was proposed to resume developing the iPhone version; i was shocked by this because i never did anything with the iPhone and my SDL/Pascal was (and still is) very limited! However i received so much help by unC0Rr, nemo, tiy and many other people at #hedgewars that all together we managed to pull something off! With a lot of patience and trial&error, here's what we've got so far:




What we're showing now is a very BASIC demo, running in the iPhone simulator! The code compiles fine and graphics too, but there is still no support for audio and no way to control the game. This is where current development is at the moment, but now you can rest assured that you'll see one iPhone version of your favourite game in the future!!!

animals yet again

yummy, inserito originariamente da Vittorio's.

from the USA trip set, i've updated the animals set with the squirrels!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/vittorio.giovara/USATripAnimali#

second shot

lovin' tree, inserito originariamente da Vittorio's.

bird album is ready!
where's the bird in this photo? in the lower left corner!
ok it should have gone into the tree ones, but i like the blur behind the tree

http://picasaweb.google.com/vittorio.giovara/USATripAnimals
enjoy