{"author_name":"jonbro","cat":"October Challenge 2011","comments":[{"author_name":"Jacic","time":"October 10, 2011 9:52 am","epoch":1318258320,"text":"I think there is already an interpreter for iPhone. It was called something like ‘esolang’.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1318233240,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"63424","p_author":"jonbro","p_authorkey":"1187","p_urlkey":"99202","p_title":"big direction change","p_cat":"October Challenge 2011","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1318233240","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1187","us_name":"jonbro","us_username":"jonbro","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

Well, I may have screwed myself for the october challenge. I decided to change projects. I decided that a brainfuck interpreter for iphone is retarded, and no one would want to use it. Well maybe there are a few people. The other problem was that my core programming interface was really bad, and it was hard to enter programs. I just couldn’t bring myself to work on it more.<\/p>\n

I decided to\u00a0resurrect\u00a0an old project that I never released. Itch is a partial clone of scratch<\/a> for iOS. I wrote a bunch of it way back in the day, and even have videos and stuff<\/a>. There were a few problems with it. One big one was that I never implemented saving, so it was a pain to work with. Another was that a bunch of the interesting opcodes were hidden in an arb opcode. Yet another was that I was paranoid about both apple and the scratch team, on one hand apple was way more strict about interpreted code, and on the other I didn’t really understand code\u00a0licenses, and was afraid of the scratch one.<\/p>\n

No longer! I have started rebuilding the project, and have a pretty good stab at it going after one weekend of work. I am probably just going to include the logo \/ turtle ops this time around, and leave the interactive and sprite drawing for another time. If I have time I might throw in some sound opcodes. To see.<\/p>\n

In all likelyhood, this will make me miss the october deadline. I will try my hardest, but if I don’t make it, at least I am not putting out something that I think is a bad idea down at the core.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>","time":"October 10th, 2011 2:54 am","title":"big direction change"}