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May 2023
- 100r.co, updated jib cars (2023.05.08), and added new recommendations on the offshore checklist(new entries labelled with dates).
- donsol, Asie made some 3DS and NDS roms(Mastodon).
- wiktopher, added the revised and corrected version of Chapter 8 back online.
The recording for the show Devine(Alicef) did with Anju Singh and Reylinn(visuals) last march for Biosonic!(On Galiano Island) is online, watch it here.
Looking for a new uxn rom to play? NF just finished Fourtette, a block game. Devine provided guidance, Rek made the title screen art, and d6 provided music.
April 2023
- 100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar evacuated tube cooking, and updated insulation (2023.04.03), and thruhulls (2023.04.08).
- oquonie, released the game for Uxn. We have a Windows95+ compatible version[Mastodon video].
- left, various UX improvements, including negative length selection.
- Note Pad, ported the classic macintosh Note Pad(YouTube) application to Varvara, download it here.
- Turye, total redesign(YouTube).
- Beetbug, added support for comments(YouTube) in symbol files.
oquonie is out and it is playable! A big thank you to those who helped us test the game on a variety of devices and systems all the way to Windows95. This version of Oquonie differs a little from the original, in that some of the puzzles and secrets have changed. We hope that those who played the original will too enjoy this one. We have a special build of the game on itchio with the emulator and rom combined, if you have a false-negative virus warning on Windows 10, you will need to use the standard uxn32 emulator and rom.
We have watched as people implemented their own emulators and were able to play Oquonie on a Varvara of their own making. The current implementation documentation might need to be improved, if you have feedback for things that could be clearer, please let us know!
We published our experiments with solar cooking this month, and wrote a more detailed post on solar evacuated tube cooking. The real test will happen this summer. We plan to keep a log of everything we cook, how long it takes, and the conditions(sun, overcast, temp etc).
We're still closing a few projects aboard pino, to get it ready for some summer sailing. Our plans for now are loose, we're hauling the boat out of the water in early June, with plans to sail back towards Desolation Sound afterward, with a possible stop by Jervis Inlet.
Pino book & movie club
We're watching La Belle Verte by Coline Serreau.
March 2023
- donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
- 100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated saving fuel, engine rebuild and sprouting.
- grimgrains, added two new recipes: Beet Sauce Pasta, and Mac and Faux Cheese.
- left, added all sorts of fun new things like routine definition highlight and graphics support.
- Hakum, new comics named Who Did What and Disengaging.
- orca, added $bpm command to the uxn version.
- uxn, revamped Uxntal documentation based on the feedback from the community (thanks everyone).
- Interaction Nets, spent time in the deep-end of the pool.
News
We spent the first half of March on Galiano Island in the Salish Sea for BioSonic(by ActivePassive), an event series exploring the intersections of music, art and biodiversity. On March 10th we gave a talk titled What Are Computers For?, see the art from the talk. The next day, Devine and Anju Singh performed together using orca, with Reylinn on visuals. A video of the perfomance and of the talk will be released soon, in the meantime, see photos of the talk and of the show, taken by photographer Dayna Szyndrowski.
We are still working on re-releasing oquonie. We spent the month of March playing the game, finding bugs, and fixing them. Oquonie will be playable next month.
This month we've been experimenting with solar cooking, to try to save on cooking fuel this summer. We are currently making tests, gathering data, and hope to share this with you all end of April. In the meantime, enjoy this amazing music by Xsodect, made using orca.
Pino book club
We're reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay and Julie Sussman.
February 2023
- wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to online.
- left, made a ton of improvements including a new directory navigation, better navbar labels and performance.
- orca, fixed an issue where copy/paste/drag would move characters off-screen.
- Catclock, ported to new opcodes and improved monochromatic mode.
- Beetbug, added an interactive mode that interprets uxntal on the fly.
- Hakum, added a comic sequence named Tracking.
- 100r.co, added updates to battery connections.
- grimgrains, added some notes on Temperature for lacto-fermentation.
News
On February 14th, we celebrated our 7th year living aboard our beloved pino. It's also around this time 10 years ago that we were still living in Odaiba(Japan), and beginning our work on what would be our first game collaboration: oquonie.
The uxn port of Oquonie has advanced in incredible leaps this month. Rek has finished re-doing all of the assets. Devine is now working on the music, and finalizing some of the levels. We are testing the game as we go, and hope to release it sometime next month. Oquonie will be playable on a number of platforms, including the Nintendo DS(Mastodon), as well as the Playdate. See a small preview(Mastodon).
Early next month we are traveling to Galiano Island in the Salish Sea for BioSonic(by ActivePassive). We'll be part of an event series exploring the intersections of music, art and biodiversity. We'll give a talk on March 10th, and Devine will perform with orca on the 11th at the Galiano South Hall.
Watch Devine's set for Lovebyte 2023.
Pino book club
We're reading Courrier Sud by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
January 2023
- 100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC electrical refit), and updated lpg refit.
- wiktopher, corrected chapter 8, and nearly done with lexicon.
- weathering software winter, video(Vimeo) now has closed-captionning (same goes for YouTube version). Rek spent time cleaning up the auto-generated transcript.
- uxn, Andrew released Uxn32 2.0.
- Potato, added updates, potato can now assemble roms from tal files.
News
This month, we started porting oquonie to uxn. This is a long time coming, but we weren't sure if it was possible to do, and we still had a lot to learn before even thinking of taking it on. Now, we think we are ready. We are re-drawing the sprites(Mastodon), and they look amazing. This is an important test for us, and for Uxn.
Here is a very adorable little Uxn sprite for Potato that comes up when a rom path was mistyped, see it also on the uxn page.
Pino book club
We're reading The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West by Edward Abbey.