FrostEd – Cross-platform text editor

Posted by Johannes Stein on Jun 16, 2010 in Applications, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 2 comments

When I switched to Mac OS X something I was really missing was an easy-to-use and free advanced text editor, something like Notepad++ on Windows. I found Smultron and Fraise which are really great editors but lack some features regarding some syntax highlighters and code folding and I came across some annoying bugs when I’m trying to edit larger source code or text files.

What I’m looking for in a text editor (and I’m trying to implement those “features” to the best I can):

Currently I’m trying to decide on a license (MIT, MPL or GPL), but after that’s decided I will officially release it which will possibly be in a few days.

Merry christmas

Posted by Johannes Stein on Dec 23, 2009 in Development, Games, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 0 comments

I wish everyone visiting this site a merry christmas and a happy new year.

Umm, I forget to make a blog post about my game I made for Ludum Dare #16, so here it is:
Colonial Age

Description:
You control a ship and need to explore all islands on the map before the AI does.
You see that circle around your ship? Yeah, ok, good, that’s your line of sight, you see everything that’s in this radius,
everything else is darker and hiden from you.

Download:
Windows (3,7 MB)
Linux (2,8 MB)
Mac OS X (4,6 MB)
Source (2,3 MB + Images/Sounds included)

Platform specific notes:
Mac OS X: Universal binary, needs at least Mac OS Leopard
Linux: You need libSDL, libSDL_image, libSDL_mixer, libSDL_ttf and liblua installed as well the latest graphics driver for OpenGL support.
Windows: You need Visual C++ 2005 Redist because of the Lua DLL. (The necessary DLLs are included, just in case)

Irrlicht for (Free)Pascal: First preview version

Posted by Johannes Stein on Oct 1, 2009 in Libraries, Linux, Mac OS X, OS-related, Windows | 0 comments

Here is the first preview version of IrrlichtWrapper for Pascal.

You need the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Redist package, or you can use alternatively the MingW DLLs, but the MingW DLLs don’t have DirectX support. I translated six of the original 78 examples. It’s actually working pretty well, but there are a few issues:
- The wrapper supports only Irrlicht 1.4.2
- The particle system is not working, creates an AV
- Text output isn’t working correctly on Linux
- Mac OS is not supported at the moment (for some unknown reason I cannot create a dynamic IrrlichtWrapper library on Mac OS X)
Download IrrlichtWrapperPas (8,1 MB)

And here is a port of Frank Dodd’s IrrKlangWrapper for Pascal: Download here (1,1 MB)
It just features a few functions at the moment, but works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Porting Irrlicht to Object Pascal began…

Posted by Johannes Stein on Sep 9, 2009 in Development, Libraries, Windows | 0 comments

A lot of people googling for irrlicht, freepascal and delphi have been redirected here lately. (Just because I link to the Irrlicht page in my blogroll.)

Nevertheless porting Irrlicht to FreePascal and Delphi has always been a big dream to me. So I took a few hours and began to port Frank Dodd’s IrrlichtWrapper to FreePascal.
That went pretty well and I got a hello world example up and running.

Here is a screenshot:

I’ll continue to work on that later as I have a few other projects at the moment.

Cavern Defense Update

Posted by Johannes Stein on Sep 4, 2009 in Games, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 0 comments

Here is finally an update for Cavern Defense. This is mainly a bugfix release. All critical bugs have been fixed and it is quite playable now. I updated the instructions screen, so that it should be more clearer how to play the game. For more information on what has changed take a look at the changelog.txt file.

Downlod links:
Windows (6,2 MB)
Linux (4,8 MB)
Mac OS X (12 MB; Universal Binary)
Source (132 kB)

If you want to compile the source, you also have to download one the binary releases and combine those two because the resources folder is not included in the source zip file.

Ludum Dare #15: Cavern Defense

Posted by Johannes Stein on Aug 31, 2009 in Games, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 0 comments

Last week-end I participated in Ludum Dare.
This time the theme was caverns.

I had the the very ambitious plan to create a turn-based strategy for two players where I slightly overestimated my abilities and the time given.

Here is a screenshot:

Download here:
Windows (5,4 MB)
Mac OS X (11,2 MB)
Linux (4 MB)

Personal notes:
I’m not entirely happy with the result, because of some pretty nasty bugs and a few features which were cut due to lack of time. So I will be releasing an update in a few days. Stay tuned.

Linux notes:
- You need libSDL, libSDL_image, libSDL_mixer, libSDL_ttf and libSDL_gfx installed on your system to run the game.

Mac OS X notes:
- For some strange reason (specific FreePascal/SDL_mixer/Mac OS X – bug) there is no sound on Mac OS X.
- Be sure to copy the application from the image file to a directory with write permissions because the game creates a log file.

I put together a PDF with random thoughts and foodphotos during development and added a short post mortem:
Click here (3 MB)

Click here to see Cavern Defense Timelapse
(I realized I hadn’t chronolapse running all time during the LD, so my timelapse is rather short.)