After weeks of saving, mowing the grass for a little extra cash, and putting his meager allowance money into his proverbial piggy bank, my son finally saved up enough dough to buy a retro gaming console. I helped him look through and review a lot of options, and he settled …
A while back I wrote an article about hooking up my HTX-212 to a signalink-usb and using it for APRS and Winlink from my 78 Chevy pickup [1]. I recently moved it to my newly restored 1968 Chevy pickup, and had an issue with it, so I thought I'd share …
A really big project (for me) that I've been working on recently is a new Ubuntu Touch app that I'm calling "EveryBible". An app that allows you to read numerous Bible translations with linked in cross references. When I first started using Ubuntu Touch after a many years hiatus, I …
A friend of mine on Ubuntu Touch reached out to me the other day about one of the older apps that I maintain. It's called Ambient, which is a simple app that plays background noise for a set period of time. Apparently, my friend uses it every night to help …
After several weeks of toying with it, I have finally completed my click of NesJs for Ubuntu Touch. Now, when I say that in the geek community, they typically think by NesJs, that I mean the really big NesJs library [3] that was written in typescript and is used in …
After months of trial and error, grinding and chipping away at it, and generally slow but steady work, CitySim is done! That's right, I've released version 1.0 and published it on the OpenStore[2]! Ubuntu Touch users can now download and play my simple city simulation game.
I did …
Never a dull moment for CitySim! I was blessed to be able to get lots of work done on it today, as I had a little extra free time. The two major things I accomplished were fixing the sound, and getting it ready for translations. The sound was relatively easy …
With only the audio left to work on, I decided it was time to start beta testing the game. I put it on the UBports forum[2] so others with Ubuntu Touch phones could try it out. Unfortunately, I didn't get much traction there. I also posted it on the …
As I mentioned before, we are getting down to the last few items left to complete CitySim. Last post I talked about creating disasters and mayhem in CitySim, and that means the big ticket items left were working on audio and building scenarios. I did make a few adjustments to …
Well, at least a virtual one! I just finnished adding disasters to CitySim, and that was pretty challenging, but also really fun! The disasters that are available are:
Each one of them brings what I hope are unique challenges to the …