Entries by Frank

I know it's been quiet around here lately, and apart from a huge PHP/Javascript/Ajax job that sucked up most of my time over the summer I've been secretly hacking away at an iPhone/iPod touch game called Pinch 'n Pop! I (almost reluctantly) download the iPhone SDK a few months back expecting to build some of the examples then get bored and move on, but it was surprisingly refreshing to code for such a closed system. After a week-long crash course in Objective-C/Cocoa I was pretty much sold - though I quickly ditched Objective-C for straight C once I had a few wrappers around the Cocoa Touch APIs. I like the idea of Objective-C, and it might make sense for UI-heavy stuff, but ugh - not for games...

Pinch 'n Pop is in Apple's hands at the moment but not yet available in the App Store. I'll post an update once that happens.

Just a quick note to mention that I've evaluated the new FMOD Ex 4.18.00 stable release and it remains compatible with the current (v0.8b) build of my FMOD Ex Audio Classes for REALbasic. If you're a new user please be sure to manually patch the classes for full compatibility with FMOD Ex versions 4.14 and up.

eDrum MIDI Mapper 1.2 is now available for download. This release fixes a few bugs and adds input and output options to support more hardware and software configs. Please see the online documentation for the complete change log and info on new features.

I've released minor maintenance updates for my Mouse Overlord and Display Overlord projects that work around conflicts with the new "Attributes" reserved word in REALbasic 2008r2 and up. Mouse Overlord also contains new CursorIsVisible functionality. Hit the open source page for download links.