Eddie Hillenbrand

🧑‍💻 Software engineer. Indie dev.
🎮 Working on Virtual Controller
👉 Follow my progress

[Eddie Hillenbrand @haltingproblems]

@jckarter ok

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@dcooper8 @xah_lee No clue what's going on, and hardly anyone is talking about it. I can't be the only person working on Elisp right now?

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iPhone app is working as a game controller. It connects to the driver on the Mac and sends HID input reports as the button states change. Games are playable. 🎮🕹️👾🧑‍💻

This is so fun!

#IndieDev #RetroDev #GameDev #RetroGaming #MacGaming #iOSGaming #SoloDev #OpenSource #Emulation

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Hi, I’m Eddie 👋
I’m an indie developer 🧑‍💻
I’m building Virtual Controller, it’s open source and turns your iPhone into retro game controllers 🎮

I plan to share my progress here

#IndieDev #RetroDev #GameDev #RetroGaming #MacGaming #iOSGaming #SoloDev #OpenSource #AboutMe

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@RetroTechorDie The acting was terrible, but the terminology and whatnot always sounded legit to me as a kid. I have no clue if was legit though.

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@VideoGameHstry Obtained a broken one as kid. Managed to fix it. I don't know what happened to it.

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New assets for the driver's host app.

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I am so jealous. The closest I've come to something like this is writing an SDL-based framebuffer device for GXEmul emulator framework.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This is the PDP-11/83 I've been working on... it's got a lot of pretty das blinkenlights!

It's running 211BSD UNIX that I custom compiled to make it all work. I had to tweak the kernel's idle loop to get the display panel to work, as this setup uses fast PMI (private memory interface) between the RAM and CPU, so the panel can't see it happen unless you cheat a little!

The dual floppy unit is wild... a single stepper motor moves the heads on BOTH drives at the same time, so they're like conjoined drives.

The bus spans three chassis, which are the three grey boxes. So unlike a PC, you can just "add most slots" and keep going to your heart's content!

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@Apogee_Ent Wolfenstein 3D

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@buildinpublic Retro game controller emulation and device driver.

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The driver works. The hard part is finished.

Now I just need to make the iPhone app send button state changes to the driver on the Mac.

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@ProductHunt Money shots? 'Cause it is also now the future of payments.

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@martingrasser @norootcause @toddwaterbury @angyche How does it feel to have some jabroni that thinks he's the second coming Archimedes/Christ open up the character picker, searches for X, lands on MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X, double clicks, out pops 𝕏 and boom: a brand is born?

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The bird tweets no more. Welcome to 𝕏! Long live 𝕏. 𝕏𝕏𝕏 #WelcomeToX

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@Teslanomous Skeuomorphism > glassmorphism.

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This macOS Sonoma beta is lit! #WWDC23

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@atgarone It was called Dashboard.

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The web was a mistake.

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@sdw @kwuchu InterfaceLift is still online? That brings back memories. It was the best place to find and hire an artist to make great macOS app icons back in the day. Back when icons were more than silhouettes on gradients.