by siyb

After looking through all my projects today I realized that I haven’t been working on xMind in ages and that a lot of additions, changes and fixes planned for LB6.1 have already been committed, so that I decided to issue xmind_listonbeta6.1_r1. Due to a lack of time on my part there is no precise date for the next release, which is why LB6.1 is released now despite its incompleteness. The new .run archive installer has been tested and seems to work fine, nevertheless you may encounter errors when trying to compile Eggdrop, those errors are most certainly caused by missing requirements.

LB6.1 should work fine with tcl8.4 and tcl8.5, if there are any compatibility issues related to the tcl version you are currently using please submit it to our bug tracker so that the requirements and dependencies can be adjusted.

ListonBeta6.1 is shipped in two different formats, the well know .tar archive and the noobproof .run archive, which pretty much automates the installation procedure. Advanced user that wish to adept their xMind installation will prefer the .tar distribution everybody else should really stick to the automated installer, especially because the .tar installation method will not be supported by me any more. Check out the detailed installation instructions at the xMind wiki page, that we be updated in the following next few days in order to fully describe the new versions installation process.

xMind ListonBeta6.1 r1 .run
xMind ListonBeta6.1 r1 .tar

by siyb

I have recently written a small POC / Demo game in TK and due to the fact that it has been quiet around here for some time, I decided write a small release post and attach the program for public use. The concept of Asteroids is simple, you are jammed in a asteroid belt and the only way to survive is to dodge incoming shrapnels. Increasings shunning skills will result in starship acceleration. Asteroids features 7 level that can be customized easily. New levels can be created in a similar manner (just in case you get bored).

I will probably not work on this game anymore, unless popularly demanded :P.

Asteroids1.0

by siyb

One of the many projects I am currently working on starts to get a clear shape. The project has been developed for about two month now and today I can finally announce, that the first usable snapshot is completed and ready to be downloaded from our git repository. tIRC is written in TCL/TK and should therefore be platform independent, it has been tested on Linux and Windows and although there seem to be some performance implications on Windows (tested with ActiveTcl8.5) it is most certainly runnable. Nevertheless you should remember that this still is a very early version and that the state of the application does not represent a full featured IRC client by any means.

tIRC comes with 3 different themes and icon sets, that can easily be adjusted. Additionally, the release features a ported version of my Amarok.tcl script for xChat, that can be loaded on demand. tIRC is released under the GPL and might therefore be modified and distributed freely, please refer to the GPL in order to get an overview of what is and what isn’t allowed.

As the bugreport feature of tIRC is not implemented yet, you need to report bugs manually by visiting our bugtracker.

Why yet another IRC client and why the heck should I use it? tIRC as such is very lightweight, the whole client is about 122kb in size and consists of a few thousand lines of code only. tIRC is flexible, the modular buildup of tIRC allows easy extension by using TCL/TK, we are not only talking about usual plugins, even the appearance and layout of the client can be modified using the provided plugin interface. All functionalities of the client may be overridden or modified by extensions. Finally tIRC is free software and if you don’t like it you can just wipe it of your hard drive.

Note for developers:
I would appreciate if more developers would be willing to join the tIRC “team” (can’t call it team yet with one person working on the sourcecode :>) or create packages for their distributions / OSes. Please contact me if you are interested in participating in any way.

by siyb

I have just packed the daily build of xMind ListonBeta6.1, that contains a modified install.sh, which enables me to create a self extracting installer from now on. Get the current packed version here, executing the .run file and following the instructions should lead to a successful xMind installation. Make sure that you have less installed, it is used after the installation has been completed. Please report any bugs to https://bugs.geekosphere.org/.

by siyb

Meretrix invested some free time in enhancing my very basic version of tcl.nanorc, there are a lot of fixes an improvements, the new version is worth a download if you use nano to alter tcl files. Feel free to leave comments with suggestions or bugreports if anything does not work as expected. The new highlighting version will only work with nano 2 and above.