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Good news and bad news

March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

The good news is that I’ve made substantial progress in getting Python to work in OSXBMC. The bad news? I’m now addicted to the Tetris script and likely won’t get much more work done this weekend.

There are still some issues to be figured out, but hopefully I’ll be able to make a release this coming week with Python enabled.

(This also means that the Mach-O processor that wraps some stdio/stdlib calls seems to be working, which means that the full power of XBMC’s virtual file system should work once I run the processor on all the libraries. Which means thumbnails over SMB and probably lot of other things.)

Now I have to get back to Tetris.

Luckily my C++ is better than my Tetris

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10 Comments so far

mattsoft March 22nd, 2008 2:36 pm

Great progress as always. With python support, I may have to donate more money for beer! Heh heh…
cjc March 22nd, 2008 3:32 pm

Hey elan,

as much as i’d like to say “hurry up and get finished” i can’t!

With all the work you and others have put in since OSXBMC started, I’m very impressed anyways. and i don’t think any of us will deny you a bit of pleasure playing tetris!

and beside, you’ll get bored of it soon!

enjoy the beer!
Jezz_X March 22nd, 2008 4:28 pm

Not a very good tetris player either from that screenshot
maxrogers March 22nd, 2008 7:13 pm

Elan, you have your fun with tetris! In fact, you do whatever the heck you want! Meanwhile we will sit at your feet in awe… (refreshing every 5 minutes in hopes of a new release!)

Seriously thanks for all your hard work on this. we are all amazed!!!
bouriko March 23rd, 2008 9:44 am

nice ^^

but when emulator port come you will try THE excellent tetris 3 (snes)
steve jobs March 24th, 2008 11:45 am

The best and only tetris remains the original arcade version by Atari/Tengen in the arcades. It plays perfectly well with MacMame and Mame OS X
krux March 28th, 2008 12:00 am

If you’re into using SABnzbd for downloading from newsgroups..

does anyone know if this would work on the OSX version?

http://hometown.aol.com/fylands/sabcontroller.htm

i will try it when i’m back home… stuck at work =P
dmthomas March 29th, 2008 11:39 am

If you’re on OSX, use this http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/

Pretty easy install from MacPorts.
tenthumbs April 16th, 2008 7:23 am

Elan: Did you have to map any keys to be able to play tetris? I can only move the blocks left and right, but can’t figure how to turn them around?
elan April 16th, 2008 8:03 am

@tenthumbs: The key works for me to rotate the pieces.