Devine and Rekka are great and I love what they do and how they do it.
The Uxn Ecosystem
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As someone who recently moved onto a boat after discovering all those YouTube channels, I agree! I've found the less produced channels to be the most exciting.
Yes. The trick is to find these channels early and then bear to unfollow them when they get to streamlined.
My favorite recent channel is called “Boring Sailing,” which the algorithm served up, but has very few subscribers. It’s actually—truly—been boring to watch, at times, but you have to root for him!
“Wilding sailing,” on the other hand, is a much more ambitious labor fest, with the boat owner restoring a catamaran he bought for 2k Euros. That’s been inspiring, entertaining, and really worth subscribing to.
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
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What blows me away is how practical it is. They've ported it to every piece of junk they had laying around, and wrote tons of software. It's not just a design on someone's web page, they're making tools, games, art.
For gaming it's good, but sadly for software it lacks Unicode support. I wouldn't mind basic support with GNU unifont in further revisions. Altough the complexity would skyrocket. Then, if I wanted to write an adventure in Spanish I would omit the tildes, starting question/interrogation symbols and I would map ñ to ny.
> for software it lacks Unicode support
That's not an inherent limitation of the VM at least, just of the current software ecosystem. It would be possible and practical to make a tiny unifont-based Unicode text library. Though handling bidirectional text, joined scripts and vertical scripts would be something else… :(
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
#34I think 100r reminds me of the thing we're missing the most nowaydays - bravery.
We're afraid to take chances, to explore ideas, to take a slightly harder path or to explore difficult challenges. We're risk averse and we're unwilling to try new things. Reading about their trips, about all the work they do on the boat and their approach to code (love the concept of making software for one person!) makes me feel like a coward and how I would love to be more brave about how I deal with code, life and the environment around me...
I appreciate all your work Rek and Devine. I'm glad yo see you busy doing nothing...
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
For gaming it's good, but sadly for software it lacks Unicode support. I wouldn't mind basic support with GNU unifont in further revisions. Altough the complexity would skyrocket. Then, if I wanted to write an adventure in Spanish I would omit the tildes, starting question/interrogation symbols and I would map ñ to ny.
> for software it lacks Unicode support That's not an inherent limitation of the VM at least, just of the current software ecosystem. It would be possible and practical to make a tiny unifont-based Unicode text library. Though handling bidirectional text, joined scripts and vertical scripts would be something else… :(
This illustrates just how complex even the "basic" stuff turns out to be in practice. Text rendering hates you[1]. Even if you take obvious shortcuts/compromises like limiting yourself to monospace, you'll get bitten by "double width" characters. Kudos to those who try, rather than bundling a copy of Chrome with their chat app.
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
#36I think 100r reminds me of the thing we're missing the most nowaydays - bravery. We're afraid to take chances, to explore ideas, to take a slightly harder path or to explore difficult challenges. We're risk averse and we're unwilling to try new things. Reading about their trips, about all the work they do on the boat and their approach to code (love the concept of making software for one person!) makes me feel like a…
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#37I think 100r reminds me of the thing we're missing the most nowaydays - bravery. We're afraid to take chances, to explore ideas, to take a slightly harder path or to explore difficult challenges. We're risk averse and we're unwilling to try new things. Reading about their trips, about all the work they do on the boat and their approach to code (love the concept of making software for one person!) makes me feel like a…
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This has got to be one of the saddest replies possible. We have everything to gain from it. If we're unwilling or unable to explore the parts of existence that scare us we cannot possibly come up woth new things. It is the very essence of our evolution and growth, going beyond the comfortable and known.
Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us.
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#38Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site. In another life maybe. [0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html
I'm really impressed that they have the energy / motivation / time to write a virtual machine after dealing with all these "real world" issues !
Also impressed that it runs on a lot of real hardware apparently. I have seen many VM projects but they seem kind of isolated within other computers.
The extreme constraints definitely push the design in a different direction
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
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> for software it lacks Unicode support That's not an inherent limitation of the VM at least, just of the current software ecosystem. It would be possible and practical to make a tiny unifont-based Unicode text library. Though handling bidirectional text, joined scripts and vertical scripts would be something else… :(
This illustrates just how complex even the "basic" stuff turns out to be in practice. Text rendering hates you[1]. Even if you take obvious shortcuts/compromises like limiting yourself to monospace, you'll get bitten by "double width" characters. Kudos to those who try, rather than bundling a copy of Chrome with their chat app. [1]: https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/
Yeah, that's why ASCII with a few of accenter chars and glyphs [áéíóüñ] would be enough with just a small extended western table. Optional as a library, OFC.
By default you write ASCII chars from a table with a "display" device. I prefer uxn's simplicity over my own complex locales. Anyway, as I said, a tiny .tal code for extended chars wouldn't be very big.
Some fonts for uxn (look at the ~rabbit repos at git.sr.ht) already bring extended chars.
Re: The Uxn Ecosystem
#40Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site. In another life maybe. [0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html
I'm really impressed that they have the energy / motivation / time to write a virtual machine after dealing with all these "real world" issues ! Also impressed that it runs on a lot of real hardware apparently. I have seen many VM projects but they seem kind of isolated within other computers. The extreme constraints definitely push the design in a different direction
Yeah, the same witht the Z-machine for text adventures (and terminal games like tetris, trek or rogue for the Z-machine)
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Once you compile the game with Inform6 (an easier OOP lang than Python, rooms and objects are described almost as if they were a config file), the game runs from DOS/Amiga/Atari machines to Win/Lin/Mac/Android/iOS and even Haiku.