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Great! Glad to hear that the heads are still compatible. Cuisinart does the same with their food processors: parts from fifty years ago often still work on the current models. Really like it when companies keep the standard instead of inventing a new one every few years like they do in the computer industry. 🙂

I use a Roomba but do have a…[Read more]

Still working on Common. I’ve got five more files left in Common to go through before I can fix the operator overloads and then I can move to the main code. Going slow now as I don’t seem to have the stamina I did ten years ago but it’s still going!

The trick I use for oregano is to plant it in a baby pool after punching holes in the bottom. It works like a charm! Granted, it still gets too cold in the winter even for herbs here so spring replanting is always a must if they’re outside 🙂

It’s doing well but the neighbors have started messing with the new ground cover, which is why it had to…[Read more]

That’s one of the ones I can’t get, sadly. Part of the franchise is only on HBO Max, part of it is available free, while the rest simply isn’t available. 🙁

Did try Get a Clue yesterday but it focuses too much on slapstick comedy and does away with the entire premise so I stopped watching after a single episode and after a look through the…[Read more]

It would have been fine if they had just ended it before the last chapter. It was already implied that the main story was over and the conflict resolved. At least until a couple pages in to the final chapter.

A lot of my thinking of Walrus was actually inspired by Vault-Tec but without Vault-Tec’s other issues…. 😛

Yeah, Google has been…[Read more]

Yeah, only about half of the franchise seems to be available. All of it used to be shown as reruns on broadcast TV but broadcast TV hasn’t shown them in two decades 🙁

What’s new is also highly self-referential: they make jokes about the cliches all the time. It also confirmed that Pup is canon and takes place in the mainline franchise and even…[Read more]

What’s New Scooby Doo does a good job of expanding the characters’ personalities and even does more to establish the Fred and Daphne relationship. Do wish I could get the whole franchise but only bits and pieces are available. 🙁

Never have been a bit fan of disaster films, Gilligan’s Island was always preferred. Granted, I will watch some of…[Read more]

Sorry, this one. The final chapter can be skipped. It felt like it was tacked on as an afterthought but, otherwise, it isn’t bad.

Well, there’s always Vault-Tec 😛

Yep. Generally, macro functions are used sparingly in code as they’re harder to read and find information on than stuff in the standard but Common appears to use macros extensively. Not sure if it’ll be the same in the main code. Should be able to start looking at the main code either next week or the following. I’ve got about ten more files that…[Read more]

Oh, that’s no issue at all. C++, unlike other languages, is very flexible when it comes to style. You can even have all of the code on one line if you want or even split things across several lines. The biggest thing is to make sure you use the delimiters appropriately, either in your macros (so they’re properly expanded during the pre-processing…[Read more]

The end bracket is supposedly inserted by the final function macro.
Here’s the definition in dl_base.h:
#if defined(__MSDOS__)
#define SYS_MSDOS(Cmd) Cmd
#define SYS_WIN32(Cmd)
#define SYS_UNIX(Cmd)
#define SYS_NONE(Cmd)
#elif defined(_WIN32)
#define SYS_MSDOS(Cmd)
#define SYS_WIN32(Cmd) Cmd
#define SYS_UNIX(Cmd)
#define…[Read more]

Picked up the ground cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyla_%28genus%29 🙂

Not sure of the specific species, though. Couldn’t get enough mimosa locally so I went with frog fruit instead.

Another oddity that’ll need investigation:
SYS_WIN32(m_TimerID = timeSetEvent(55, 22, l_Win32TimerProc, 0, TIME_PERIODIC));

SYS_WIN32(if (m_TimerID == 0) {
)
SYS_WIN32( ErrorHandler.AddError(ERR_BADINPUT,
"Failed to initialize the timer using SetTimer()!") );
SYS_WIN32( return (FALSE)…[Read more]

Started reading Rubicon yesterday and imagine my surprise when it was dedicated to a Warcraft III character 😛

Do you mean this one? Possibly if it’s a drop-in replacement

Haven’t gotten to the windowing code yet but, as I recall, DOS and Windows had totally different ways of handling that so they’d likely be incompatible. Removing it won’t change the binary at all but will reduce code cruft.

Sorry, meant prefixed. Will definitely need to get the…[Read more]

Just realized I accidentally changed the formatting for the overloaded operators. They should still work but the style no longer matches common practices. These are mostly in classes that are reimplementations of features in the Standard Library so they may be getting removed during the overhaul but I still need to correct my boo-boo

Unrelated…[Read more]

This isn’t exactly a note but more something interesting that I just found. Some of the files have conditional includes that check for DOS or regular Windows, even though DOS was mostly phased out in the mid-90s for the consumer (still used for kiosks at the time and since has been mostly superseded by kiosk mode)
#if defined(__MSDOS__)
#include…[Read more]

We may need to sign up for Analytics and/or Search Console. I think the latter is what we would want for that but Google has a ton of tools. There is also a WordPress plugin that helps to integrate with them if we go that route.

On a slow connection, it’s supposed to passively download the site for offline viewing and update the contents as the connection is re-established. However, in my experience, it’s hit or miss. When my connection is acting up, sometimes it downloads the content but not the styles or images while 75% of the time you get to play with T-Rex. Highly…[Read more]

The final season does move away from much of the lore into more standalone sketches but still fun 🙂

Caught up on the Scooby Doo Show, only ever saw half of the episodes. It does a wonderful job expanding on the existing lore. One of the best moments was when Fred randomly told Shaggy to use plan 47 and Shaggy sits in thin air digging through a…[Read more]