{"author_name": "jonbro", "cat": "October Challenge 2011", "comments": [{"author_name": "Jacic", "time": "October 10, 2011 9:52 am", "epoch": 1318258320, "text": "I think there is already an interpreter for iPhone. It was called something like ‘esolang’.", "spam": "N"}], "epoch": 1318233240, "likes": 0, "metadata": {"p_key": "63424", "p_author": "jonbro", "p_authorkey": "1187", "p_urlkey": "99202", "p_title": "big direction change", "p_cat": "October Challenge 2011", "p_event": "LD21", "p_time": "1318233240", "p_likes": "0", "p_comments": "1", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "1187", "us_name": "jonbro", "us_username": "jonbro", "event_start": "1313712000", "event_key": "7", "event_name": "LD21"}, "text": "

Well, I may have screwed myself for the october challenge. I decided to change projects. I decided that a brainfuck interpreter for iphone is retarded, and no one would want to use it. Well maybe there are a few people. The other problem was that my core programming interface was really bad, and it was hard to enter programs. I just couldn’t bring myself to work on it more.

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I decided to resurrect an old project that I never released. Itch is a partial clone of scratch for iOS. I wrote a bunch of it way back in the day, and even have videos and stuff. There were a few problems with it. One big one was that I never implemented saving, so it was a pain to work with. Another was that a bunch of the interesting opcodes were hidden in an arb opcode. Yet another was that I was paranoid about both apple and the scratch team, on one hand apple was way more strict about interpreted code, and on the other I didn’t really understand code licenses, and was afraid of the scratch one.

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No longer! I have started rebuilding the project, and have a pretty good stab at it going after one weekend of work. I am probably just going to include the logo / turtle ops this time around, and leave the interactive and sprite drawing for another time. If I have time I might throw in some sound opcodes. To see.

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In all likelyhood, this will make me miss the october deadline. I will try my hardest, but if I don’t make it, at least I am not putting out something that I think is a bad idea down at the core.

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", "time": "October 10th, 2011 2:54 am", "title": "big direction change"}