asiekierka

I'm a Minecraft modder and while mods are really exciting, sometimes the vanilla stuff is where it's at.

Awesome job.

I would not be surprised if this is literally replacement iPad screens with markup. iPad screens use a form of DisplayPort internally.

Alpine Linux might be helpful for minimizing both RAM and disk footprint.

That still doesn't explain, for instance, cutting out translating web applications or PC/Mac software.

I believe euthanasing UUIDs is really immoral. You go on talking about how all UUIDs have a right to live, then mention how all identifiers which are "unnecessary" should be killed as soon as they are born.

Gee, what a bunch of hypocrites.

My friends made me join Facebook. My friends made me leave Facebook. Then Edward made me sure about my decision.

What about functionality added by mods which are not directly made for Minecraft?

Spout used that loophole (where Spout was a voxel mod API and SpoutCraft was a Minecraft implementation of it) to allow selling mods.

It seems to hook itself into the Back arrow and doesn't let me go back without right-clicking on Firefox.

That's not nice.

There is no real mention of the OS X 10.10 pre-alpha on the page and they weren't posted with that intention. Also, the CUI icons everywhere.

Though the odd icons make it look weird... I don't know anymore, really.

OS X 10.10 potential pre-alpha screen leaks have been sitting on BetaArchive unnoticed for 2 weeks now, and I highly doubt them being fake.

http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=31454

No. A good part of Wikipedia is that it works and renders properly on almost every device. Making such a HTML5/CSS3/JS-oriented redesign could heavily ruin that.

I know that feeling. I'm still struggling with it and it has kept me confined to very few things for ages.

I thought it was said a number of times that this was a fake rumor.

I wish I were creative.

Android still lacks a high-quality tablet software ecosystem.

In order to stay compatible with non-WebP-supporting browsers, moot would have to keep two versions of image files on the disk, causing a lot of pain and HDD waste.

It could work for the smaller boards, though...

I found the complete collection of Netscape releases in English and German all the way to the last 4.x versions, some Chinese service packs that were lost, old versions of the JDK, the JDK 1.0 beta 2, tons of 2001-ish Apple freeware/bugfixes, etc, etc...

It's sad the ZZT community is almost completely dead. Not sure if the sad part is "dead" or "almost".

An end of an era.

I spent a boring weekend looking for interesting stuff on old FTP servers. There are a few sweet Chinese ones that were not touched since 2001.

That first one is my post! Haha. Can't believe someone noticed it.

Did you forget an operating system in 150 lines of JS? (Four libraries used)

You're on location 5.

Prepare for liftoff.

You mean months.

The problem is that 12-year-olds are not willing to donate, and that is the major audience for most mod makers, unlike Linux distros.

Only a few get to make for the smaller crowds, and they are usually mocked throughout.

Not to mention, companies don't invest millions in Minecraft.

EDIT: MMPL (Minecraft Mod Public License) and Elo's and CovertJaguar's custom licenses are the most prominent examples. Half of the mods don't even HAVE licenses!

Actually, most of the changes revolve around "let's make it easier for modders to make mods" and "let's work on areas that we neglected". Private messaging systems are used a LOT on servers.

Yes. I prefer donations, and AsieLauncher got more money for donations than it ever would from adf.ly for the next 2 years.

Not again. Their ability to create good-looking software makes me quite jealous.

A few thousand people bought the game in the first 6 months. Removing Swedish taxes, that was about $20k. That's not a bad motivator, you know.

" Everything I've read implies Thermal Expansion simply stopped in 1.5.x and its still not compatible with 1.6.x or later. "

They decided to attempt a complete rewrite of the mod. It's about half-done. Yes, stupid decision, seeing as a 1.6.x port can be done in a weekend for any mod.

I wish I could make a startup, but I'm only 16... although I do have the AsieLauncher - which makes launcher creation and mod cataloguing easy, I also have contacts within the modding group with people willing to join such kind of project... But I can't take any money for it, which kind of misses the point.

An easy way to charge for Minecraft mods would be to create a Flattr-esque system for server owners: you pay a flat fee for servers, set based on server size, and the fee is proportionally distributed between mod authors, who in exchange ensure that the mod versions in the database are okay and that the configuration is in a specific format that makes it easy for the launcher to generate a server- and client-side config that just works (though "ID hell" will be gone with 1.8, when they fully make a move to referring to blocks by names and not IDs).

AsieLauncher Wiki URL: https://github.com/asiekierka/asielauncher/wiki

EDIT: We also have a serverlist! http://servers.asie.pl - and our mod database is viewable at http://servers.asie.pl/mods (I apologize for the Bootstrap)

EDIT2: Meet me @ #AsieLauncher on irc.freenode.net

Okay, you're kidding, right?

Minecraft 1.7 did not include any major changes. They just rewrote about 50% of the source code.

Nah, not a lot.

And they're doing it EXACTLY so they can make a mod store.

Now, the only reason you cannot pay for Railcraft is because Mojang included a clause stating that you cannot sell modifications or derivative works based on Minecraft's source code. They ARE working on a mod store and API... since 2011. I believe it will be coming in the next year or so, Mojang claims January but I stopped believing them long ago.

About modifications, I started work on a way to improve mod distribution from servers to clients: AsieLauncher. It automatically generates a launcher, a list of modifications and a list of changes between modpacks. It supports delta updating, all MC versions from 1.2.3 to 1.7.2, optional mods and a lot of other things.

The plan was to add support for automatic mod updating and dependency tracking, but the problem is mod authors aren't often willing to participate, due to stubbornness or just plain assholery or laziness. That's why such projects rarely take off.