After some fiddling and rearranging, I've finished my first draft of a schedule to see maybe 53 shows at the 2025 #OttFringe Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival. As usual, I used #FFVSO to try out different options, web.ncf.ca/au829/FFVSO/in… if you want to try it out on your schedule

Mobile game idea: Real World Multiplayer Throw & Catch Saw Kitsune at the #OttFringe Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival, a story about the Japanese fox spirit, partly about its glowing soul gem which got lost after a game of catch with the audience. I came up with the idea of

Yay, made it to 54 unique shows at the #OttFringe Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival this year! That’s a new high count for me, beating 2014’s 53. Whew! Now it’s time for an actual meal, sleep, laundry…

It's back to game basics - collisions for #NthPongWars! This is the good version, after problems with players getting stuck together, that seem obvious in retrospect, were solved. More at the blog, agmsmith.ca/WeekendReports… including discovering the Z80 "ldir" multi-byte data

Finally we got some rain and it’s cool enough to go out for a morning walk. Here’s Westboro beach’s new look - place was being renovated for the last few years by the National Capital Commission

More #NthPongWars progress - now with AI players. One is trying to draw "N" while the others bounce around the sides, until they spot a Human player. Blog post about it at web.ncf.ca/au829/WeekendR…

Had fun adding the first power-ups to #NthPongWars, a game for the Z80 #NabuPC. Of course, got many more ideas. The challenge is fitting them in 64K of memory, and making overall game-play coherent. Details, discussion and video script in the longer blog post at

I finally got my #BeOS virtual machine working on my new AMD Zen 5 system. AMD is missing some Intel secret sauce, so using a hardware VM doesn't work (Guru Meditation errors in VirtualBox, abrupt reboots in KVM). But QEMU's software emulation does! After more fuss trying to

Building on the idea of Space based data centers (desirable for cheap solar power and real estate), you could also use them to reduce the global warming of planet Earth. Surprisingly nobody has noticed this point; just put them near the L1 Lagrange Point between Earth and Sun to

I've added tutorial levels to #NthPongWars. Easy, except that I needed walls to separate the new players, and that meant perfecting the physics simulation so players couldn't get through the walls. Longer story with video tours of the new levels at web.ncf.ca/au829/WeekendR…