{"author_name":"Olofson","cat":"October Challenge 2010","comments":[],"epoch":1286963220,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69119","p_author":"Olofson","p_authorkey":"2901","p_urlkey":"104922","p_title":"Kobo II: Minor progress\u2026","p_cat":"October Challenge 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1286963220","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2901","us_name":"Olofson","us_username":"olofson","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

Well, bad news first: Yesterday, I lost many hours to an old, nasty bug in my EEL scripting engine.<\/p>\n

The good news: I cracked the bug! Turned out to be memory corruption due to the VM allocating one byte to few for a “stack” used for memory managing VM register variables. (EEL has an oddball automatic memory management solution, due to it being targeted at realtime applications. Reference counting with a few shortcuts, basically.) This had gone undetected as it only happens when you have a multiple of 16 register variables in a function.<\/p>\n

Also, I now have an “Olofson Arcade presents” screen, a title screen with a nice, animated logo, and some nice code to play around with. So, now I can throw some game logic in the mix! I intend to take the Kobo Mk II for a first test flight some time today. \":)\"<\/p>\n

\"Kobo<\/p>","time":"October 13th, 2010 4:47 am","title":"Kobo II: Minor progress\u2026"}