mickens

Blog reboot

2010-09-08T13:40:00.000-07:00

Some projects I am working on now:

Qt:

Qt GL Driver for the Efika MX systems.

Android:

Android port for the Efika MX systems.

Barcode scanning and printing @ nSpike:

Ticket printing engine for Swebus (sweden) and a roadtoll barcode scanning service.

Sorry no pictures or videos.

Gtalk Video on Linux /Arm

2009-12-17T12:26:00.001-08:00

smallgtalkwin
Originally uploaded by micken1

This is one of many things I am working on now.

Progress

2009-06-14T23:22:00.000-07:00

Do not despair , I am still working on Anubis and I am making progress. However I have a lot of other projects that keeps me busy.

SimpleMail for AROS update

2009-04-26T04:45:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately I have some problems with AROSTCP, I cannot transfer more than 50M without a crash , and since my inbox is larger than 50M , SimpleMail can't fetch it. However if I restart AROSTCP it can continue to fetch mail. So SimpleMail seems to work just fine.

I will not relase the new version until this problem is solved.

Catch the logo

2009-03-20T10:44:00.000-07:00

Today I wrote a small demo that uses the touchscreen to move around a bitmap window.

Anubis on ARM ?

2009-03-18T06:06:00.000-07:00

Not exactly but a beginning of a technology that might be used in Anubis, especially on small devices. I talk about graphics subsystem which displays on the fbdev device in linux.

bbrv blog

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A photo on the first try on displaying a Anubis logo on the ARM board , gives a good look of the board itself.

Anubis logo movieclip

A very low quality movie on three Anubis logos scrolling on the tiny lcd (you can only see white rectangles , but they are logos I promise :))

My take on the "A#?" future

2009-03-07T13:52:00.000-08:00

When I look back I see a computer platform that was superior to every other. It had amazing hardware and a fast multitasking operating system. It could have been the standard for personal computers. But it failed , not only because commodore was doing bad things , but mainly because of IBM. IBM was the main factor in computer development , and when it launched the idea of the "pc" not even Apple had a chance.

Anyway history moved on and after many turns we ended up with three "A" platforms plus emulators. We have the official AmigaOS , MorphOS and AROS.
I think that this actually is a good thing. It gives the users the possibility to pick whatever they like and gives the developers the opportunity focus on different areas. I think that the classic "A" platforms listed aboves still have a important role to fill together with emulators.

I for myself is a happy MorphOS user and I have no intention to leave that platform.

However as a developer I have decided to go in another direction.

I still believe that the "A" way of doing things is something that users want. But I also believe that the OS base is very outdated and suffers from several weaknesses. So I have decided to go with the Anubis project.

Anubis aims to be a "A" like system but with the Linux kernel as a foundation. I really don't want another Linux distribution , but a new OS. I hope that old "A" users will feel at home in the Anubis environment rather than Linux users. This is a requirement for me.

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New versions of SimpleMail for AROS

2009-03-07T03:22:00.000-08:00

I will soon release a new version of SimpleMail for AROS , with various improvements.

* Use of the "new" SimpleMail listclass
* Enabled the quick search functionality
* Updated to the latest version
* PPC version now available , currently only on hosted , I still have problems with
native

* .. and .. more

screenies , first from x86 , the transparency comes from 3d effects in linux the other is from ppc/hosted showing SimpleMail and AMosaic.

Not official

2009-03-07T02:49:00.000-08:00

My posts here does not necessarily represent the official Anubis team, it is only my thoughts and experiments that may become a part of Anubis or not.

Tests with xcb

2009-03-07T02:29:00.000-08:00

This is a old screenie showing my test windowmanager built with xcb and cairo/xcb.

fbdev graphics subsystem

2009-03-07T02:00:00.000-08:00

I have started to write a graphics subsystem for fbdev the linux kernel framebuffer.
So far I got:

* Bitmap abstraction
* Object oriented using ObjC
* Automatic expose handling
* Display server with client lib communicating over UNIX sockets
* PNG loading with libpng
* Font rendering with Freetype
* .. and some more stuff..
And of course a couple of screenies, stay tuned for videos showing animation and stuff :)