Workin' on a nuclear war...

So I'm deep within the development process for my next program, one that promises to be useful and actually have a point to its existence... That's right, I've finished up the user interface and basic model for the Nuclear War game... Now comes the hard part- making the AI. I will post screenshots soon, and maybe shed a little more light on the basics of the game and how it is going to work. In the meantime, you can all be assured that I'm not just sitting around doing nothing.

--Admiral Mojiferous J. Colossus

Desktop Cigarette has been "finished" and released. As promised, it does absolutely nothing and provides no real value. But it was easy and vastly entertaining. You can get the same amount of disinformation by going here.

--The Admiral

Zoltan updated yet again... and more news...

So... Thanks to my girlfriend, I found yet another problem with Zoltan- namely that between midnight and 1 am his background refreshed to white if you had him speak... a real problem that was easily solved and now version 1.2 is now up (I know I can't keep on with this crazy version numbering system, but I have nothing else to do...) You can get him here.

I also finished Desktop Cigarette in the few hours between the last post and this one. It doesn't do anything fancy, so it was pretty easy. It should go up in the next couple of days, once I get around to making a web page for it, a readme, and all that jazz.

--Admiral Mojiferous J. Colossus

Zoltan released into the wild!

Zoltan! 1.1 is now up and ready to go... I started out making a Moai that would forecast the weather and ended up with a crazy little program that not only has changing weather, but dynamic sun and sky and sound effects. Any hopes of making Zoltan into a widget were dashed when I started adding more and more features to him... he's a little heavy on the extras to be able to fit into Apple's Dashboard conventions... I already updated Zoltan because I forgot to comment out some test code that caused the sun to continuously rise or set. But he runs miraculously well now, and is every bit as useless as Lobster Petting.
Zoltan 1.1

On the subject of Lobster Petting, it seems that some people just don't seem to understand what the hell it's all about. Some humorless tightass on Macupdate called it "a junior high project"... Which may be true, but I wasn't hoping to change the world with Lobster Petting, I merely wanted to spread my dadaist joy around. Apparently, despite the now widespread use of computers, some people still think of them as just tools and I happen to disagree. Being a member of the "personal computing" generation (I'm the same age as Apple) I think that my Mac is more than just a tool, and (going out on a limb) more like an essential part of my everyday life. This being said, something profoundly useless and mildly bizarre like Lobster Petting fits into my existence perfectly. But I also still enjoy life and find the strange little parts of it to be the most fascinating, so maybe I'm just a little too abnormal to be making software... That being said, there's more coming soon--

In the shape of Desktop Cigarette, the project that never happened for Mac Classic... No one could quite get the desktop to update well enough, but OS X is much different... so as soon as I have graphics, she'll be posted!

--Admiral Mojiferous J. Colossus

Lobster Petting X 1.0 available now...

Well... I've just put the finishing touches on Lobster Petting 1.0.2.8... It's a Universal Binary, about 4.5 MB zipped, and runs fine in 10.4.8. All the same Lobster Petting features are there: a lobster, claws, sound... You know. Made entirely in RealBasic, it's a little large, but it doesn't crash! It is of course available from my own website.

Enjoy!

I also started work on Zoltan! Which will prove to be even more bizarre and interesting than Lobster Petting. More updates later!