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Hex-Ed revisited
November 3rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in gcc, hex-ed | No Comments »
HN_Hex-Ed
I wrote about my little Hex Editor before, but somehow this subject still comes back… It is still being downloaded several times a day (more than 2.000 downloads only this year!).
Evolution
Although I haven't done any programming in Windows for years, and Hex-Ed has received it's last update in 2004, I still receive requests once in [...]
Getting mysqlcc to build with newer gcc compilers and mysql headers
June 17th, 2010 by Niels Horn in Patches, gcc, mysqlcc
mysqlcc revisited
I used to use MySQL Control Center ('mysqlcc') quite a lot until a few years ago, when I switched to phpMyAdmin.
The biggest advantage of phpMyAdmin is that it is actively maintained, while mysqlcc has not seen updates for almost three years.
mysqlcc's interface also had a bit of an "old-fashioned" look, as it is still [...]
XSpaceWarp, or: converting old source code for modern compilers
May 14th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ARMedslack, Patches, Slackware, TRS-80, gcc
How it all started
On the TRS-80 mailing list I subscribe there was a discussion about an old (from 1977!) game I used to play on my TRS-80 Model I called Space Warp. This game was originally called "Time Trek", based on the popular television series Star Trek. When Tandy/Radio Shack released this game commercially, [...]