Trying to get Exult to work on the Alpha now turns into a hunt for a working C++ compiler. It's not much of a secret that 2.95.2 seriously sucks on the Alpha (fortunately, we're at least getting working, though not quite very optimal stuff when using the C frontend, but C++ ist just broken), so I tried a CVS snapshot, which appears to have some problems with its own header files. (Well, it's a CVS snapshot, so I can't really blame them for this, though this shows they still have some way to go for 3.0.0). Next thing to try will be Compaq's cxx. It's proprietary and binary-only (i.e. evil), but maybe it will work, which would put it at a distinct advantage over gcc. Oh, and did I mention gcc 2.95.2 sucks on the Alpha? BTW, welcome, fingolfin, and thanks for your help with this yesterday!
FreeSCI
I received a few... historical documents about the SCI
engine. Apparently, some Russian hackers took the system
apart as early as 1992; their discoveries were put down in a
series of e-mails (or, more precisely, posts to a FIDOnet
discussion forum), which, by a set of weird and confusing
circumstances made their way to me. Now this would be great
if they wouldn't happen to be written in Russian ;-)
Fortunately, Sergey Lapin (who re-implemented one of the
decompression routines for FreeSCI) appears to be able to
read that stuff, so we're not quite left out in the cold
here :-)
As hoped (but unlike anticipated), the improved widget subsystem was checked into CVS last saturday. If I refactor any further, we'll re-write the whole thing from scratch... Anyway, the widget system, while not quite doing everything the way it's supposed to do it yet, is progressing- and it is faster than the old thing :-) (and more scaleable, of course).
Simpsons
Oh my god- they killed Maude! You Bastards! (It sure takes a
while for US episodes to propagate over here).