Older blog entries for helcio (starting at number 38)

University

Oh, no!!! Another coursework! ... and to be written in Java! Aaaaarrrggghhhh! I am getting overwhelmed... :(

PopAsm, the Popular Assembler Project

I have finally managed to convert the Expression class to its new interface. There are some bugs with the DUP operator which I will be fixed later. Meanwhile I must study hard for the exams and keep adding Doxygen documentation to the sources.

Things do not look good at the University... It seems I'll have to keep studying hard for the next days, but I'll do my best to at least touch my project (PopAsm) somehow.

Oil and war

After ftobin claimed USA does not need Iraqi oil I had to do some researching to prove it wrong. I already knew oil was behind all this (among other factors as well), but the data I found about the issue was surprising anyway (see my comments on proclus article about the anti-war blackout)

University and PopAsm

I went back to classes two weeks ago, and things are being harder than what I expected. It has been more than one week since I touched PopAsm source for the last time. I will do my best to resume working ASAP.

War

Well, it appears that thanks to president Bush and his puppet (Prime Minister Tony Blair) we will be at war once again... Now the only thing which might prove whether or not it was a good idea to attack Iraq will be the conflict outcome. Unfortunatelly that will cost many lives and billions of dollars.

PopAsm, the Popular Assembler Project

I have registered PopAsm as a BerliOS project. I have also changed the Expression class design drastically. It will take some days to complete this transition.

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PopAsm, the Popular Assembler project

PopAsm is doing fine. I have successfully added the preliminary version of forward symbols reference. More on that later.

Joystick

I have won some races with the joystick, but I then bought a new computer where neither of my joysticks work. I am seeking the cause of the problem. My guess it is the motherboard driver or its game port hardware...

I am back at Rio - Brazil. I hope I can resume working in my project soon (PopAsm, the Popular Assembler project).

I also bought a new joystick for driving racing games. The initial try was interesting despite I got the last rank in the easiest race :(

I have worked fine recently. Some people are sending interesting comments about the project. That's great. One of such comments suggest PopAsm to borrow an A86 feature that outputs assembly errors to the source files as comments, so they can be fixed easier. The feature will be added just after the first alpha version is released.

I have just found another project like PopAsm, the Popular Assembler. I will drop its author a line and see what happens.

Found bugs in some instruction tables entries. All have been fixed up. I believe I'll be done with the basic testing before monday. Because of the instruction set reference, the PopAsm User's Manual is near 150-pages long! Nice progress, eh?