Hey Andrew!

https://github.com/TelluricDeckay

Bookmarked it and will definetly clone it later this week. I am giving myself at least a couple days off while the dust settles on these latest upgrades. I think I deserve it.

The other two projects listed there are libraries we wrote for
the program.

I'll have a looksee at them all.

I may try a Rust library and give the app sound effects. But if
that means too much bloat for your tastes, I'll avoid that! :)

Knock yourself out. I have sound on two of the machines - this one and x86_64-heatsink-linux-gnu - both of which have the alsa mixer available to the 'linux' terminal as well as fbdev2 if you REALLY want to get fancy with the output. I cannot get the unicode playing cards enabled on the 'linux' terminal to display (yet) but they could work in a xterm which I do have on x86_64-motorshed-linux-gnu. ;-) Check out http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F0A0.pdf if you wish to see what they look like.

These days, I play 0 A.D. a few hours a week against the AI with
a friend of mine.

I have cpat handy on all three machines, which is a ncurses based solitaire game. The default in cpat-1.4.1 is to use unicode but I just use 'cpat -a' for colourized ascii output. I haven't tried it in xorg yet so I am unsure what I'd have to do to get the unicode output. I'll try that later if you're curious.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Hallo Maurice!

I have sound on two of the machines - this one and x86_64-heatsink-linux-gnu

All three since x86_64-lmbrain-linux-gnu's lscpi reports "Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)". Beats me if it actually works since we never put any sound apps on there to try it out.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

https://github.com/TelluricDeckay

Bookmarked it and will definetly clone it later this week. I am giving myself at least a couple days off while the dust settles on these
latest upgrades. I think I deserve it.

Well, we've decided to go full GUI and use 'iced' as the library. Though I'm stuck
figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI, and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2, so I may just quit for now, clear my head and make sure I'm

caught up on sleep and pain management before the surgery.

The good news is, rmw will always be non-GUI! I'd be interested in your opinion of
that if it strikes your interest. I've been working on it for almost ten years now
https://remove-to-waste.info/

rmw (ReMove to Waste) is a safe-remove utility for the command line. Its goal is
to conform to the FreeDesktop.org Trash specification and therefore be compatible
with KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and others. Desktop integration is optional however, and by
default, rmw will only use a waste folder separated from your desktop trash. One
of its unique features is the ability to purge files from your Waste/Trash directories after x number of days.

Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project, which I use to connect to Prism BBS with minicom.
https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k


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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

Though I'm stuck figuring out how to code the flow with the GUI,
and have cataract surgery scheduled on Oct 2,

Ouch. I don't envy you any, especially the surgery part. As for programming, I swore off of GUI progamming after writing a printer
driver for Win-3.1 way back in the day. I've lived up to that oath
ever since which makes it about 30-ish years.

My first attempt at GUI programming. I think for me the one big advantage to being
able to write an app with a GUI is that maybe my nephews and nieces will be more
interested in software I develop! :)

https://remove-to-waste.info/

Consider it bookmarked. :-)

Thanks. :)

Also I took over as maintainer of the abandoned modemu project

That sounds familiar. If I am not mistaken I first heard about it back
in 1995-ish perhaps a year or two later. I last had a working modem (external) around then so something like that would have gotten my attention.

That must be the same one. The copyright info in the source indicates 1996. I can't say I understand the code much, but I was able to make it ipv6 capable, fixed some warnings, and made sure it would compile with gcc 10 (made sure it compiles with the -fno-common flag), and added a configure script (with autoconf).

I actually got some very nice feedback from the sysop of the Rusty Mailbox last

year. He said he noticed it come through filegate and tried it out. He was a regular use of modemu but it stopped working for him. It worked for him after my
updates :)

https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/modemu2k

Also bookmarked. I'll check it out later as you've got my curiousity aroused. I am not sure at this stage of the game I'd be keen to use a modem emulator on minicom. The last time I played with minicom was to output raw GPS sentences from a usb GPS reciever about 15-ish years
ago. I still have the reciever but last time I played with it was with gpsd.

Sure, I wasn't really recommending you switch from whatever you use now, just me
shamelessly advertising a little. More fun to maintain software when people know
about it.

Though I think rmw you'd definitely have a use for! Great for anyone who works at
the command line when they are tired. ;)

Are you working on any interesting projects these days, Maurice?

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-Andy


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