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October 22, 2003
Software Updates
A few new tardists for today. First up from semi-fly - Kobo Deluxe, a SDL/OpenGL based space shooter based on XKobo.
Next up is multi-aterm, a tabbed terminal emulator based on aterm, which looks to be comparable to gnome-terminal without the baggage of endless Gnome dependancies.
Finally nvukovlj has contributed a tardist for the gentoo file manager. He explains it best:
"Just uploaded my first tardist. Hope it works ok on systems other than mine.
It is gentoo-0.11.36 file manager, which will look very familiar to ex (or current) Amiga users, as it is inspired in look and feel by an Amiga file manager - Directory Opus 4 by GP Software.
It is a mips3 binary, and was compiled with gcc, but in this case, speed is not really of the essence."
I want to personally thank everyone who has and continues to contribute IRIX freeware to the site's archive. It's very much appreciated by myself as well as the community at large.
I do want to apologize for being so slow at responding to e-mails as well as posting up these updates. I'll try to improve on that front in the future.
Downloads:
Kobo Deluxe 0.4pre8 (tardist) - 1.8MB
multi-aterm 0.0.4 (tardist) - 327KB
gentoo 0.11.36 (tardist) - 2.3MB
Posted by nekonoko at October 22, 2003 8:20 PM
Comments
Semi-fly you are unstoppable! Kobo looks cool (what are the controls?) and multi-aterm is perfect. It's exactly what I was hoping aterm might become.
One small problem, whenever I set the transparency resource to true, it crashes when I hit the button to create a new tab. The error is :
materm: XError: Request: 14 . 0, Error: 9
BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
materm: XError: Request: 14 . 0, Error: 9
BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Trace/BPT/RangeErr/DivZero/Ovflow trap (core dumped)
Posted by: squeen at October 23, 2003 4:54 AM
=)
Oh, for kobo the controls are just the arrow keys and the space bar or 'f' key for fire. The pumping sound track is a little grainy on my little speakers, so I just disable the music.
I've not had any crashes with multi-aterm yet (although it is still an early project). What is the exact command your using to run it?
Posted by: semi-fly at October 23, 2003 5:33 AM
It ends up setting the shading resource to anything other than 100 does it.
Posted by: squeen at October 23, 2003 7:53 AM
I just use a standard aterm command like this:
multi-aterm -fg lightgreen -tr -sh 75.
seems to be working so far. =)
Posted by: semi at October 24, 2003 5:07 AM
multi-aterm sounds promissing. Although it's realy not working well here yet.
It starts (but only whe not starting into the background) but when I click on the 'new tab' button:
materm: can't open pseudo-tty
materm: aborting
:-(
Posted by: Wh|te Russian at October 29, 2003 10:56 AM