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Meld: Outstandanding visual difference program
I’m in the midst of converting Spitbol to use the nasm assembler instead of the gnu gas assembler. As part of that I need to compare various versions of the assembly language files, and I so I went off...
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Linux: The Last OS Standing
One of my favorite films is Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. It stars Toshiru Mifune, who plays a lone samurai who comes into a town where two factions are feuding, and then skillfully plays one against...
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How to access, read, write, or mount a USB flash drive in Ubuntu Linux
My most viewed blog post is about how to access a flash drive on Ubuntu Linux. Written five years ago, it is my most-viewed post ever. For example, it now accounts for over a third of my views each...
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Introduction to the Macro SPITBOL MINIMAL Reference Manual
The source code for MACRO SPITBOL contains extensive documentation. I have extracted the specification of the MINIMAL (Machine Independent Macro Assembly Language) and the specification of the OSINT...
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Unix SPITBOL 13.01 Released
The SPITBOL Project is pleased to announce that Unix SPITBOL 13.01 is available. It can be downloaded from Github: HARDBOL/SPITBOL: 13.01 tar.gz 13.01 zip This release supports floating-point...
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Unix SPITBOL 13.05 Released, With Support for Unicode
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce that Unix SPITBOL 13.05 is now available. It can be downloaded from http://spitbol.googlecode.com/files/spitbol-13.05.tar.gz. This release includes versions...
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On the Merit of Transparent Console Windows in Ubuntu Linux
I use Linux Mint — a variant of Ubunbu Linux — for my day to day programming. Here’s a screen shot of what my screen usually looks like: Usual mode – two opaque terminal windows. Above you seen two...
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GCC: The First Compiler With Its Own Flag
While trying to look up some information about the gcc compiler, I did a search on ‘gcc flag -m’. Here’s a picture of the results from Google: Search results for ‘gcc flag -m’. This is the first time I...
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SPITBOL for OSX is now available
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce that an implementation for OSX is now available, and can be found at github.com/spitbol/spitbol. SPITBOL now supports the use of the gas (GNU as) assembler to...
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FRIBBLE, a SPITBOL program to play word games such as Word With Friends, now...
The FRIBBLE project is pleased to announce its first release V17.1.30, available at Fribble Project. FRIBBLE is written in SPITBOL, and uses a brute-force approach, trying all possible moves, to play...
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