Been a while I posted either so, uh, thought you'd like what I have so far...


From a39 studios, introducing a visual novel adaptation of the definitely not award winning webcomic Horse Life 98!

We are on the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist, the national day of Québec. A feast where we celebrate the beginning of summer, when it's starting to get hot outside. However, it's not hot. It's freezing cold. It's all but summer. What's happening? Is the groundhog that died on Groundhog Day having something to do?

Find Yuki and Tsuki, two girls with legendary kitsune powers, on their quest to find summer back in this comedy visual novel, Japanese style but 100% Québécois, created and directed by J. P. Savard. A novel with multiple branches, several possibilities of trial and error, and a lot of absurd situations. Can you find a way to bring summer back?



Made using Ren'Py, Mannequin and Inochi2D, available eventually on itch.io and (probably) Steam in French and English.

You can support development on Patreon at https://patreon.com/a39 i'll try to post some devlogs here 

If anyone use Arch Linux, I had a repo for a while with a few interesting software such as TI/Numworks/X16 emulators and tools. Today I'm also adding daily builds for some of the packages, so check it out

All the instructions are at https://repo.juju2143.ca.

[juju]
SigLevel = Never
Server = https://repo.juju2143.ca/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch


If you follow the 8-Bit Guy, you might know he's working on a brand new Commodore 64-like computer, and it looks quite interesting: the hardware is close to done, there's an emulator and many tools developed around it, and they even have permission from whoever ended up with the Commodore IP to build on the 64's ROM!

So yeah, I'm a mod on the brand-new forums and we're starting to get a nice community going on, if you want to check it out

https://commanderx16.com

It's a webcomic about a horse turned into an anime girl after having smoked a bit too much. Originally made with Microsoft Chat 2.5, I shifted to Adobe Illustrator and MikuMikuDance. Check it out, it's pretty absurd.

https://toasters.rocks/horselife/
https://tapas.io/series/HorseLife98 (season 2)

Kinda curious here, also would serve as a poll for maybe new subforums based on what you're doing now (other than calcs and stuff cause I know a lot of you are no longer into that ).

My day job involves getting websites to work and Linux system administration, as usual, other than that, I'm working on an English fandub of Dans une galaxie près de chez vous and a revival of my Twitch channel. Other than that, some random stuff I do when bored I post on my blog or my Twitter account. Probably should cross post about some of them in here.

What about you?

I've recently been rebuilding my blog where I put project updates, rants, writing, reposts from elsewhere and most recently some absurd webcomic made with Microsoft Chat for Windows 98 appropriately called Horse Life 98, check it out

I recently installed Ghost on some free shared hosting account I had laying around somewhere that surprisingly supports Node.js and Ruby, it's WAY better than Wordpress and it's written in Node.js so it's way faster and not a clump of legacy code that still supports EOL'd versions of PHP, and now I'm trying to build some custom theme for it, which are pretty much HTML templates that are really nice to code. Previous versions used Write Freely (written in Go, had almost no feature other than federating with Mastodon and felt a lot like 0.x software) and Tumblr (which is pretty much a failure since it got bought by Verizon, they tried to ban NSFW and the users got pissed). So yeah, it's a pretty nice experience so far, and I'll keep you updated on the new theme

Visit it now!

Hey guys... Wonder what I'm doing these days, other than Zarmina? It's a little project I'm involved with some friends that I'm working on since a little more than a year, basically it's a matching service for podcasters and Youtubers to find entrepreneurs who would want to put some ads on your content and make some money with that We wanted it to be very organic: you decide of what kind of ad space you want to give out, like a mention at the beginning of your video and many Youtubers are already doing, we make sure the people we match are related to each other (as in, we'd match food brands with food podcasters and gaming sites with gaming youtubers) and we hope these ads will be less annoying this way.

Anyway, check it out and I hope you'll like it! We're concentrating our efforts mostly in the province of Quebec, Canada for now, but if it gets popular there we might branch out worlwide ^_^

https://sookmedia.com/en

(Been a while I teased you with that, it's time to make a topic about that, I just waited until it gets usable before writing about it.)

(also ID 2500 ^_^)

My brother cleaned his room and this thing ended up on my desk.



It's an Apple IIc, complete with a green monochrome screen, a printer and a bunch of floppies. (Yes, the screen is actually plugged to a DVD player, but I'm surprised how watchable my DVDs are on that )

Todo list:

- Learn Applesoft BASIC (I did a circle wow)
- Build a serial cable for communication and ADTPro. I contacted the guy who maintains ADTPro and sells those cables and shipping is prohibitively expensive (as usual) so better make my own, so more updates on that soon.
- Watch some DVDs
- Figure out what's going on with the floppy drive?
- Try this thing out, if and when it's gonna come out. A friend of mine is planning to back their Kickstarter thing when they're going around to make it, so yeah, we're planning to have some fun with that.

So yeah. @Caleb Hansberry I know you like this, so Apple II thread.


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Probably the weirdest constant to ever appear in a program, guess what it does.

[spoiler=the answer]
Get one of these things, plug a lamp in and it does morse code with the correct timing.
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Cause I'm bored.

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Assuming I didn't mess up, the first one to find out what this means wins forever. Bonus: write an encoder and/or a decoder and golf the source code.

In case you're stumped, I have some clues, but otherwise, have fun ^_^

Yet another thing I started working on that have been on my mind since a while. (I do a lot of stuff lately please stop me)

Basically, it's an operating system that runs in your browser. It consists of a kernel written from scratch in JavaScript that sets up an interface (currently a VT100-like terminal, can later be a canvas to draw on and do OpenGL stuff on kinda like X) and defines a bunch of syscalls (mostly interfaces between the DOM and threads). It then creates a WebWorker (which also defines interfaces between the program and the kernel, think a standard library or a libc) that executes a WebAssembly program (an init program, basically) which can in turn call other programs in their own WebWorkers. The main thread creates every other thread and can therefore keep track of processes like a normal operating system. (Kinda hard to explain, but yeah, if you read the code it's probably simple enough to figure it out.)

Basically (where <=> is a bunch of interfaces between each other): DOM <=> Kernel <=> WebWorkers <=> WebAssembly

WebAssembly binaries can be compiled with LLVM/Clang (see the makefile, target wasm32-unknown-unknown-wasm). In any case, it should import kernel functions (those defined thread-level when calling the binary) and export a main function that will get executed and return a return value.

So, pretty much like a real operating system. Or at least, a framework for multi-threading in C in a webpage.

Check it out on GitHub, right now it only prints some sort of Hello World but I'll put it online when it's going to be a bit more usable: https://github.com/juju2143/YukiOS

Features

- Multithreading
- Keeps track of processes
- Quebec Bill 101-compatible open-source license
- Small binaries written in C (no Emscripten)
- It's in your browser!
- Small and readable source code

To do
- Read user input
- Filesystem
- Graphics
- Other misc. stuff, as needed when porting software

Hey, let's have a quick rundown of my current projects and the stuff I want to do in the near future, cause why not.

- My job: As I might have told you, I'm working on an Internet service with a few friends. We're almost done, the list of things we need to do before releasing a beta is getting shorter and we hope getting it out this month. Don't worry, I'm going to tell you guys about it in detail when it's going to be released, but until then I can only tease you a bit But yeah, this is the thing that should take most of my time at least this month. I hope you'll hear about it soon

- Zarmina: Kinda taking a pause of it and I'll get back to it later and finish writing chapter 2, adding some music cause why not and commission a few cute graphics to put on the site. Long-term plans also includes other unrelated original stories and interactive fiction. Also, a half-elf, together with some friends. Anyway. Writing is kinda fun.

- Blogs and websites: Considering rehauling a few of my personal websites (juju2143.ca, mlp.quebec, toasters.rocks). First one is pretty much my online presence and I have a good idea for it. The latter two are my blogs, the MLP one is no longer about MLP only and probably needs a good redesign. So is toasters.rocks which is my Tumblr and also needs a good rehaul, probably as a good ol' pro blog about things that doesn't really fit anywhere else and technical articles. Probably also going to move away from WordPress and Tumblr, any good ideas? Ghost sounds nice, or I could always reuse the framework I built for Zarmina and stole borrowed from my job.

- CodeWalrus: Site looks kinda dead, we're mostly on Discord, but people still check the site often enough, so feel free to post away. I also have some novel ideas for it and should rehaul a few stuff around. I also take some ideas, what you want to see here?

- Music: I'm playing music on my piano, mostly, but I hardly make those anymore. Not that I already was constant in my music production, far from it. I probably should transcribe my original compositions, arrangements and covers someday.

- DUGCon: My friends are running some convention about some Québec French TV show from 20 years ago, it's in 2 months, I helped a bit with their kickstarter thing, go check them out if you're planning to go in the Montréal area in early November. Throw money at them, if you like the idea.

- Minecraft: I remind you we have a Minecraft server, together with other Minecraft servers on the same server. Kinda weird setup. Again, there's a few stuff I should rehaul internally, like a proper admin panel for those who don't know how to admin a server via SSH and other wonky stuff going on with them.

- Other stuff: Considered cancelled and/or one-off things for above reasons. I have too much things to think about, albeit I still mess around when I'm bored. I should concentrate on working and being productive and stuff.

- Throw money at me: That would help. It pays for the CW server and its numerous services and most stuff I said here. I have a Patreon.

That's a bit of a list, I'm involved with quite a lot of stuff and I hope going though it in the near future. If you want to help in any way, I probably wouldn't say no, that would be helpful, even if it's just ideas thrown around ^_^

(whew 5am I guess I got a bit carried away, but yeah)

It's some concept I thought about this morning, inspired by Javascript emulators and those (legal) hacking challenges where you have to ssh your way into the next computer, thought you'd want to hear about it.

So, you find yourself in some computer room, for some reason. Lots of computers, old and new. Why are you here? Who knows. Maybe these computers will give you an answer. Except all of them are locked, save for one. Impossible to get to them without breaking anything, and that's something you'd want to save for last.

Looks like this dusty old-school IBM PC is your starting point. You'll want to find how to unlock these computers, one by one. Each of them will give you the name/URL of the next one and their credentials, if any, behind a little puzzle. Each level features a full-featured emulator of a different operating system (ideally free, redistributable and lightweight, so no Windows ) running in your browser, so, needless to say, you'll want to know your way around Linux, DOS and operating systems in general.

Again, it's some idea I find pretty cool and educative and I'm not sure I'll work on it right away with my numerous other projects, but yeah, I want your feedback and ideas, what do you think about it?

Well, one time a few years ago, I bought a Windows RT tablet to my grandma so she can do her stuff with Microsoft Word and go on Internet and stuff. Don't need the Pro version, I thought.

Well, guess, what, I was wrong. I have almost nothing installed on it and, with time and updates, Windows ate all of the measly 32 GB of storage installed on it. It went highly unstable, with nothing you can uninstall or delete to fix it. So my grandma sent it back to me in hopes I could fix it and do something interesting. I did a lot of stuff on it before, and they mostly all failed so far, or I didn't had time to investigate deeper. And anyway, it should have run out of support as of now. So, this is the update log thread.

Well obviously, we can do some hacks to unlock whatever feature to get a bit more control, unlock Secure Boot or something, or something of that ilk. But first, we can try to disable BitLocker, which isn't something you can do on those. It's actually required so these hacks would go smoothly without fear it would turn it into a brick.

This article suggests Microsoft patched a vulnerability disabling a backdoor into Secure Boot. And from a look of it, this update looks installed. They still provide a good command to disable BitLocker:

manage-bde -protectors C: -disable

Invalid namespace, they say. Looks like the WMI namespace got somehow deleted. Let's reinstall it.


cd C:\Windows\System32\wbem
mofcomp.exe win32_encryptablevolume.mof


Oh, it worked. Let's try the manage-bde one again... Also worked.

manage-bde -status

And it's unlocked. Next a reboot for good measure, and it should theorically be disarmed. Somehow. I'm not sure.

Next step would probably to reinstall it with the recovery partition, possibly downgrade it, unless someone have a better idea. To be continued...

On that note, thanks @gameblabla on Discord for the help!

The Recamán Sequence is probably one of the most fascinating sequences in maths. It looks good, it sounds good too. Full explanation in the video below.



The image featured in this video in particular, it looks pretty cool so I reproduced it in about 335 277 274 bytes.

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Can you do better?

Anyone on MacOS? If it's useful, I started a Homebrew tap for calc software cause it severely lacks calc software. If you don't know what this is, it's some sort of package manager for MacOS, just go on https://brew.sh/ and install it if you want. Then type these commands into Terminal.app:


brew tap juju2143/ticalcs
brew install <package>


where <package> is one of tilp2 or tilem. If you have any suggestions for any other interesting packages, then feel free to suggest here or on GitHub!

I made an implementation of some Pi-related programming language, cause I was bored.

Have fun.

http://juju2143.ca/pilang.html

You are an ASCII character, in a grayscale 2D world, made up of other ASCII characters. You don't know what's up, but you can do things. There's no goal either. But it might be considered as a game.

You already can move a letter o around with the arrow keys (block by block in a top down view, of course) and move the camera.



Planned features

- interact with other ASCII characters that may or may not be other people
- build things out of ASCII characters (that shouldn't be people)
- run into ASCII characters that are definitely not Unicode
- everything is a monospaced ASCII character
- Definitely no UTF-8

welcome to asciiworld.

Introducing a new project of mine: Tiewrap is a game engine not unlike LÖVE designed to be small and efficient, but with Duktape as a scripting language. Of course, it's similar to Legimet's Duktape-nspire project and heavily inspired from it, but this one uses SDL and should work on a variety of platforms, be it Windows, Mac, Linux, Nspire, or whatever SDL has been ported on. Planned features include a module based on the HTML5 Canvas API.

Right now it doesn't do a lot, but you can check it out here: https://github.com/juju2143/tiewrap
Also check out the API: https://github.com/juju2143/tiewrap/wiki/API

I write sometimes, and since you asked, figured I should put my stories here. It's in French so far, I probably should translate them in English if you want. Anyway, for those who speak French, here we go.

Yuki no Eien: The Eternity of the Sparkling Snow
This Japanese anime-style story follows two young unicorn girls in their adventures in a magic school for gifted unicorns. They end up being roommates and it gets a bit NSFW.
French: https://mlpfictions.com/story/1583/yuki-no-eien-l-eternite-de-la-neige-etincelante
English: N/A

Planet of the Unicorns
The crew of the spaceship Romano Fafard, on their road to find a planet to move the entire humanity, finds a planet filled with magical ponies.
French: https://mlpfictions.com/story/1584/la-planete-des-licornes
English: N/A

Well, I hope you liked them, and if you don't read French, stay tuned...

If you lived in Canada or in the UK in the 90s with a cable TV subscription, you might have fond memories of the Videoway, a powerful cable TV box that could overlay many useful informations on screen, be it the TV guide, the weather, lottery numbers, a calculator and even interactive games. One of these games, Temporel Inc., was one of the most popular of the service. It was about a time traveler trying to find his way out of a pyramid in ancient Egypt to get back to his time machine and the playing mechanics were similar to Maniac Mansion.



Unfortunately, Vidéotron closed down the service in Québec in 2006 in favor of Illico, a more powerful cable TV service, with all the Videoway games vanishing with it. However, an user recorded a walkthrough of Temporel Inc. just before the service shut down, allowing him to make a complete remake of the game on PC.

Fast forward a few years later, Collectorvision, which you might know for making good Intellivision homebrew and having bought the rights to Acclaim's and LJN's brands and logos, has announced a remake of the game, but this time on the NES console with all new, beautiful graphics.




Jean-François Dupuis, the founder and project lead of Collectorvision Games, has said Dead Tomb should be done by December, with only a few typos and fixes left and music to add for a release sometime in early 2018.

I realized yesterday I could fit a 32x32 monochrome picture using Braille characters on Twitter. So of course, we're gonna abuse this.



And just now, I wrote some program that shows a movie using Braille characters in Javascript in less than 25 lines of code.

Oh, and you know what nice video could be used to test it?

Yeah. This one.


http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8628149

So you see where I'm going?

Me neither.

Stay tuned.

I just found a pretty interesting prime here:

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Or, if you rearrange it in a square:

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As far as I know, this 576-digit number is prime (or have high probabilities to be prime according to the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) library, someone should independently verify if you have a copy of Mathematica or something just checked with Wolfram Cloud, it's prime). Now if you want to Ctrl-F this page and search for 7...

[spoiler=Now you wonder how the hell I did that? It's a secret~]

<?php// By [email protected]// Licensed under LiLiQ-R$im = imagecreatefromgif($argv[1]);$ix = imagesx($im);$iy = imagesy($im);function findprime($a,$b){  global $im,$ix,$iy;  $s="";  for($y=0; $y<$iy; $y++)  {    for($x=0; $x<$ix; $x++)    {      $c=imagecolorat($im,$x,$y);      $s.=($c>0)?$a:$b;    }  }  return gmp_nextprime($s);}$r=array();for($a=1;$a<=9;$a++){  for($b=0;$b<=9;$b++)  {    $n = findprime($a,$b);    $p = count(array_unique(str_split(gmp_strval($n))));    //echo $a." ".$b/*." ".gmp_sub($n, $s)*/." ".$p."\n";    if($p==2)    {      $z=array();      $z[]=$a;      $z[]=$b;      $r[]=$z;    }  }}for($i=0;$i<count($r);$i++){  echo $m=gmp_strval(findprime($r[$i][0],$r[$i][1]))."\n";  echo chunk_split($m,$ix);}

You must have GMP and GD installed in your PHP installation. Script should take about 45 seconds to run.
[/spoiler]

Of course, some of you will recognize the fact I was inspired by this video: