I had a bit more of a play with the emulator code tonight and fixed up a few little glitches. I also changed the color of the emulation screen to look more like the real thing 🙂 Now off to bed! It also looks like it is OK to distribute the ROM file as apparently […]
Category Archives: Mac OS X
A HP48GX emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch
I have just released the source to a HP48GX emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a very rough port of x48 to the iPhone, but it works 🙂 There is the occasional screen glitch and I’m not too happy with the screen buffer code. Something else that is a bit annoying is that it appears that compiling in Debug mode to run on the device does not work. It looks like one of the case statements in the x48 emulation code is too big to be compiled for ARM under gcc. I had a quick look at using the LLVM compiler but it didn’t seem to like it. The code can be downloaded from http://github.com/dparnell/i48/tree/master […]
FreeTDS and my new Mac Pro
I’ve been having some “fun” with my new Mac Pro. In order for me to be able to use it for my daily work I need to be able to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server instance from the Rails app I’m working on at my day job. Normally this is just a simple matter […]
Windows Live compression update
I had a bit of time yesturday to spend working on the Windows Live compression reverse engineering. I successfully decompressed around 20 bytes. The previous record was 2 bytes 😉 There are two parts to the compression. First is the compressed data and the second is pointers back into decompressed data. The compressed data is […]
PSMTabBarControl and Interface Builder 3.0
For one of the projects I’m working on I needed a nice looking tab bar control. Under previous versions of Mac OS X I used the PSMTabBarControl. The control is nicely integrated into Interface Builder 2.0, but I no longer have IB 2.0 installed as I’ve upgraded to more recent versions of XCode. I’ve done […]
OS X 10.5.6
As many people are aware Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.6 yesterday. Unfortunately this broke the HttpMail plugin 🙁 After a little bit of poking around I found and fixed the problem. The result is a new release of the plugin 1.53. Head on over to my downloads site at http://www.automagic-software.com/ Now, for a status report […]
Windows Live Mail
Just a quick note to let everybody know that I’m making good progress reverse engineering the Windows Live Mail protocol. With the help of a couple of other people I’ve managed to determine the nature of the compression used on the message data. We’ve successfully managed to build the decompression table and I’m now working […]
HTTPMail 1.52 released
I’ve received quite a lot of email about 10.5.3 breaking the plugin, and finally got around to looking into it today. I have uploaded a new version of the plugin that seems to work for me 😉 As always the latest version can be grabbed from my downloads page.
Weird characters in the previous post
Something really strange happened in the previous post. There were these weird characters appearing in the text. From what I can see it is WebKit trying to be helpful and create non-breaking spaces. Unfortunately rather than insert a good old it is inserting 0xA0 characters. I’ve just added some code to look for these […]
WebView woes
I have been working on a little blog posting app for my wife for some time called BlogThing. The first version worked well enough that I released it for download from the Automagic Software site. It used some pretty nasty stuff that iterated over the chunks in an NSAttributedString, and while it worked pretty well […]