Rained Out

My dad was going to have a bike show today at his shop. We were all disappointed when it started raining this morning. As you can probably guess, nobody in their right mind is going to ride their motorcycles up to my dad's place just to have them sit out in the rain and get wet. So when 9:00 came and nobody was there, we cancled it. It was unfortunate, but these things happen I guess. So we're going to try for next week. Because we spent so much time cleaning around the shop, I basically had nothing to do and decided to go home early at 10:00. That gave me extra time to do some work that I had to do.

Italian ProSonic Outline

Someone going by the name "Sonic the Hedgehog" has translated my ProSonic outline to Italian. It's in PDF format, and you can download it here. You can also still find the English version of the outline in PDF and DOC formats. If you have been following my ProSonic engine closely and haven't read the outline yet, I encourage you to do so.

Also, I have done another webcam video. You can check it out by clicking here. I discuss a little more on ProSonic in it. It's in WMV format, so you'll need Windows Media Player or some other compatible media player to view it.

ProTools Interface

I'm starting what I am dubbing the "ProTools Interface". This is one single interface that is flexible and easy to work with I can use to create all my ProSonic editing tools. This is the reason I have started doing ProTools.

I love Visual Basic, but I don't know enough to get my PZF file editor working like I need it to work. So since I know more about programming in C, the idea is to still have a friendly interface to work with while sticking with cross-platform C programming.

Right now, I have a dialog box working that can be any size. It has the Green Hill Zone checkered designed. I will soon begin putting my old ProSonic text functions in so text can be written to the screen which I think will look really nice in the dialog boxes I created.



Essentially ProTools will be a library that I will be able to attach to any program I write so I have all the functionality I need without having to write everything from scratch. This will allow me to come out with editing tools a lot quicker. This will also make the rewrite of the PZF format a whole lot easier.

Host Troubles

I appologize to everyone who has been trying to grab files linked from this blog. It appears there are some technical difficulties with the host of ComproSoftware.com. A number of people have reported not being able to get the ProSonic outline recently, and the problem I stated is the reason. Compro told me his host is usually quite good at getting problems resolved in a timely manner, so hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

By the way, I bought Sonic Heroes for my computer a few days ago. I had never played it before, and I have to say it's a great game! I can't understand why so many first-generation Sonic fans don't like it. I wouldn't mind if they put out another game similar to it. The only negative things I have to say is it has it's fair share of bugs. I've came by a number of them in the first day I played it. Bugs aside, it's a game well done in my opinion.

My Mom's Friend

Sunday my grandmother told me my mom was stopping later that day with a friend of hers. I thought "maybe it really is just a friend", but then I thought that sounded too weird. So I started to think perhaps she was seeing someone.

They stopped by and sure enough, her "friend" was a guy. From what I've heard (and saw once), my mom doesn't always have the best choice in people. However I can honestly say that this might be a good choice. I don't know him very well, but the first impression is very good. I often worry about my mom growing old and lonely, so I'm happy to at least see her making some efforts here.