HalfBurntToast's log

Playx player global playlist manager

2010-07-29T13:46:00.001-07:00

Something I whipped up in E2 today for fun. Allows anyone to play their own video through the Playx Player. Users just type in "/play " into chat, and it adds their video to a playlist. There are also owner commands such as skipping a playing song and deleting a song from the playlist at any time. I might add a 'voteskip' feature and maybe a user block list.

Binary Accumulator

2010-07-28T19:41:00.000-07:00

Something I found in my dupes folder from long ago. 100% gate 8bit binary accumulator for a computer that I never finished (I found it would probably take around 700 chips to complete). Anyways, from what I remember it supports basic JMP, reset, and halt/pause. :o

This is why I never finished the computer :O.

ToastyBase 2.0

2010-05-24T09:57:00.000-07:00

So I decided to rewrite my database from my blackjack game. What's shown below is a stand alone editor for the databases. The database runs slightly different than the previous version, and it's format is pretty different. But all that is at the benefit of a better built system. I should be able to change databases pretty easily :3

BlackJack 2.0

2010-02-15T18:22:00.000-08:00

So I spent the last few days, on and off, rebuilding my old blackjack machine. I wanted to create user accounts so that I could adapt it into other games/devices. And thus ToastyBase 1.0 was created. It's a simplistic database system, but its platform can be adapted to fit reasonably well into other projects. The blackjack game itself has been improved in terms of it's performance and
order of operations.

The database main screen shows on startup. Has basic database manipulation options (create, delete from server, load, or the option to start without a database). I'll be adding account editing options later on.

Once database is loaded, anyone can join through chat commands. Accounts will automatically be made and stored (unless it's running in no database mode)

Once logged in, the user page displays user balance and gives the option to start the game.

Game engine has been improved. Still a few timing issues to hammer out, but it runs way better than the first version.

Weeeeee.

Simon 1.3

2010-02-13T21:45:00.000-08:00

So while taking a break from writing my term paper, I remade Simon with some extra features. Mainly it's exactly the same game but with a simple long term database system so I can mainly run statistics on the data later on (and to keep a high score :P). Only a few timing issues remain. I may eventually make this a console screen only chip (depending on how much it lags the server/its preformance issues). Anyways, time to go format a bunch of sources :/

(I suck apparently :S)

Tic Tac Toe v2.3

2010-01-11T17:33:00.000-08:00

Once winter break was over and I decided to rebuild Tic Tac Toe from scratch. It now has a player roster before the game starts which allows a more controlled game (and adds the possibility for expansions). The game engine is also now faster and more efficient in judging wins/losses. I've also improved the UI. For the next version, I might try adding a high scoring system.

E2 tic tac toe

2009-11-05T17:38:00.000-08:00

I wanted to make this for a while, but never really got around to it. I decided to go ahead and make it today. Uses chat functions ("/x #" and "/o #"). Eventually I'll make a simple AI for single player play. It can check for a win and can tell when a spot has been taken. w00t!

Weeeeeeeee!!!

Magic Score Keeper

2009-11-05T17:29:00.001-08:00

Bought a new TI-84 Plus Silver recently. This is a test program I made while I was learning it's modified BASIC (ti-basic) commands and syntax. Nothing very complex, just something to help keep track of health when playing magic on campus. My next project: ti-blackjack :).

BlackJack 1.3

2009-10-18T13:54:00.000-07:00

A blackjack machine made mostly out of sheer boredom. Thinking about making more casino games with accounts.

No splitting or doubling yet on this machine.

Holo analog clock

2009-08-28T21:26:00.001-07:00

Got some free time and made this. Technically my first analog clock. It sports holos and while gates. The code is still pretty messy, probably should fix it when I get more time

V.1

v.2

Blast from the past

2009-08-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

In the years of the TrickysTutorials servers, I had probably around +60 more dupes or so (I think). I spent a lot of my time in it. Unfortunately I only saved a few before TT went down, but most were lost. Here's a (VERY) small list of contraptions I've made over the years spent in TT and just Gmod in general:

Chess set (VERY OLD). Many people from TT might remember it:

Auto scanning keycard reader (pretty old). Controlled by an E1 chip using a simple algorithm.

Box robot (very very VERY old). Probably my first robot ever made in Gmod. Uses no expression chip, the chips can be seen on the plate. I might have even made this before E1 even existed. I really don't remember. I remade this using my computer
Blueline quite a while afterwards.

My first wire camera (with quad screens). This is the oldest contraption in my dupe list. I built it the first weeks I started going to TT (around the time Strongbad and Lt. Smith got admin, if memory serves me). Full wire, takes 1 picture in about 30 seconds or so)

The dupe name for this on is (bigassbinaryclock.txt), and it's name is accurate (except for the binary part, it's actually a BCD clock); it's a giant clock. Aut was the first one to make a BCD clock though, so props to him (his wasn't 5 stories tall though). Uses a single E1 chip. (somewhat old)

Super keypad. I didn't like the keypad tool very much. I wanted it to be able to change it's code on the fly. SO I made this one. The code elements are stored in a constant value, and the E1 houses the algorithm and does all the hard work. (pretty old)

Phx Dojo. No wire at all in this one! Took a few hours to build, but I really like how it came out. (not that old actually)

The Awesome Train. A "joint project" by me and BP :P. E1 controlled train thingy. (moderatly old)

The early computers (Most of these have no names). My early attempts at computers (though they were really just slightly cooler calculators). I have around 15 computers or so, but these two were really the start. The second one uses a cartridge system, while the first non swappable ram. (Pretty old)

Binary cartridge loader (for use with all computers after TCPU2.0 up to Blueline v1.3).
Bulky, slow, but I love it. Reads a long row of bricks and converts their colors to data until it reaches the stop point (red). I think I did maths on this before that show that 1MB of memory in this system would be something like 4 miles long of bricks. Totally impractical now-a-days, but this was the only way I could think of to save programs over dupe. (Pretty old)

BlueLine computer. It really changed shapes over it's development. From a few scattered console screens and E1 chips, to a mammoth computer room, to a washing machine-esk box) It was the first computer I really put a lot of effort into in Gmod. I actaully used it for a lot of things too.

Blueline Box robot. The rebuild I talked about up there.

And to finish this post for now, Miya. First computer I made with E2. This was before anything like XWL:writeString so the E2 has to manually do everything. Which means that the chip is over 700 lines long. I can't spawn it anymore with out disabling the preformance caps (hense the red chip). Took about a week to design, 3 days to build/code/debug). It was a lot of fun to build. (made September-November 2008, so not that old). I no longer work or support any of the computers listed in this post btw.

Anyways, that's all for now. Time for lunch...

test post

2009-08-22T07:06:00.001-07:00

SOO here's my log. Pretty much just to keep my ideas and contraptions in order.