Thalia Brown

Mum, chronically ill bookworm & major geek

[Thalia Brown @tcbgeek77]

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[Thalia Brown @tcbgeek77]

Read my latest @mailerlite newsletter: https://t.co/01YbVljfy8

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

As a spin-off from the RISC OS Pyromaniac work, I've been creating a build environment for RISC OS 64 binaries. This is still a work in progress, but building and running 64bit binaries is relatively painless. https://t.co/4747dot66i shows a short video of the compilation.

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

cats are liquids

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The most Australian video I've ever seen

[Kate Robbins @KateRobbins]

Racism explained for dummies

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The fable of the rabbit and the tortoise has been tested in real life. 😂

[Thalia Brown @tcbgeek77]

@robwordsYT check out this quite old video from Dave Gorman about how people have been misusing (or making better) common phrases! https://t.co/FxrkJjJkTL

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

RISC OS 64 bit presentation to ROUGOL finished ! Went really well with lots of good feedback from people. Thanks for the very friendly reception. Wheeeee!

[Bryan Hogan @rougol]

At tomorrow's (Monday 19th) ROUGOL meeting we will be talking 64bits with @ropyromaniac author Gerph https://t.co/qHnshYfV0n

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

Whilst debugging some code with Pyromaniac, I know it's doing a large memory initialisation but the trace file of instructions is small; I'm trying to see what's gone wrong. Then I notice a line in the trace: `REPEAT &813c - &8164 1427 times` - a nice feature I'd forgotten!

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

Recently I had a play with making ChuckieEgg work on RISC OS Pyromaniac. As we don't have a frame buffer, that means that we have to use sprite plotting, but I could pinch that code from Heretic. The result is pretty neat. A BBC game being played on a modern version of RISC OS.

[Posts Of Cats @PostsOfCats]

Experts know best! 😹

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

Yup

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

I did a live stream of some coding yesterday afternoon. It turned out rather well - a few small hiccups, but enjoyable, and people in the chat seemed interested. I ported an ARM disassembler to RISC OS and then made a rudimentary Debugger module. https://t.co/CzIcmiINdc

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

Last year, I showed how the RISC OS Pyromaniac command server can run RISC OS commands within a host shell. Pyromaniac now supports the reverse - running host commands from within RISC OS. Here's a demo of running host commands from RISC OS - running simple tools and an editor.

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

Last night’a presentation to WROCC about Doom, Heretic and Hexen went really well. Thanks to all and to the group for inviting me. Slides and resources can be found on my presentation site https://t.co/OLlcoSmpzM.

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

hahahaahha had my phone off all afternoon and was like, why are my notifications nuts ?

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Donald, my offer to play golf still stands.

I’ll let you take three strokes off your game if you carry your own bag.

[RISC OS Pyromaniac @ropyromaniac]

Testing games like Hexen is a rather manual process, but it's still possible to have automated tests. Having accidentally released betas that contained rogue debug code, the CI now runs the release version to check that there is no output. All done through the RO build service.