Walking on the dry riverbed

Hi, I’m wolf. Long time no talk. This is my favorite walking spot. A dry riverbed of Jinzu river. Now there are bunch of yellow flowers.

Now Fujita is deeply absorbed in the development of the new Loony Labyirnth. Until he will complete the game design and construct the skelton of the program, no one have a real access to him…as if he is in a hard shell. So we walk without any word recently;)

Status update

We are terribly sorry for the absence. Fujita has been busy for Ypsilon things and I’ve been busy for arts&craft things. Now we are resuming new Loony Labyrinth development.

Here are the links of appletell regarding LittleWing. Kirk of appletell contacted us about the status of our development.

http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/appletell-exclusive-littlewing-pinball-heading-to-the-iphone-ipod-touch/

http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/iphone-games/

By the way, the photo above is totally irrelevant to the development as you see. I ‘ve got Sony Ericsson digital camera mobile phone called S001. It has “purikura-mode”. I don’t know what it’s called outside Japan though. It’s a photo booth in arcades which you can take “decorative photos” with friends

Fujita doesn’t go well with purikura-mode by any means, but this camera-phone is really great. It’s 8 Mega pixels and the response including saving time is fairy fast.

-Reiko

Happy new year

Tateyama

How things are going? We are working hard and fine as usual. It’s a beautiful day in Toyama. One of the best things in Toyama is the great view of the moutain range of Tateyama from middle of the city. I love watching moutains. The sensitive gradation of blue reminds me of the happy momories of my youth.

Have a nice day!

-Reiko

Happy halloween

Hi, this is wolf the assistant programmer. How do I look in my halloween costume? I’m a red devil tonight. You can see the pretty red horns. Fujita wears a disguise kit sold at the party goods shop. However, I think he doesn’t look like disguised as he let his beard grow heavily these days…

Reiko

Reiko

Hi, this is Reiko. I take charge of game graphics.

I’ve been working with Fujita to creat pinball graphics for 18 years(!). I appreciate so many people love what I created. Thank you so much.

Making computer graphics with Macintosh is great fun, but I also need the tangible world to satisfy my creative mind. So I enjoy making artworks with glass and metal.

The photo shows me carving the bottom of a glass flower vase (11 lbs. my forearm tells its weight!) made by kilnwork.

-Reiko F. Nojima

Personal data:

5′ 3″, 102lbs., Shoe size: 6

Libra

Blood type: A

Hobby: Ice hockey, reading

Ypsilon 0.9.6 update2 released

I have uploaded the latest version in which all bugs found to date fixed.

I improved the implementation of REPL to make Ypsilon easy to develop top level interactive programs using emacs. Also the style of error messages are  easier to be identified. It has passed all the 8,931 tests in PLT R6RS test suite revision 11530.

-Fujita

Lightweight Language Future

I’m joining the panel discussion “Lightweight Language Future” which will be held on August 30 in Tokyo as the developer of Ypsilon.

We are going to talk about the language for the next century. I’m looking forward to seeing other panelists. Their names are as follows;

• Mr. Larry Wall (Perl)
• Mr. Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby)
• Mr. Eijiro Sumii (MinCaml)
• Mr. Higepon (mosh)

You’ll find more infomation in English (at the lower part of the page). translationhttp://ll.jus.or.jp/2008/program/create

I also look forward to play pinball in Tokyo. Arcade pinball machines are extinct in Toyama other than mine…:(

Surf Cat and me

Hi, long time no talk. I’m the assistant programmer Wolf. I hope everybody enjoys the lovely summer. Yesterday we’ve been to a beach and enjoyed surfing. Well, the picture above is not a still from Cast Away but Fujita and me and the Surf Cat Hassaku. He takes charge of employee’s welfare.

He’s a brave cat so he’s not afraid of water. Now he is enjoying surfing.

Then I’ve got aboard too. Tandem ride was great fun!

Ypsilon 0.9.6 released

This version fixes all bugs found to date. Also Ypsilon version 0.9.6 has passed all 8,886 tests of PLT R6RS test suite revision 11016 (the latest version) on Linux, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X.

Again I would like to thank many people for their great contribution and cooperation.

Here is the announcement of R6RS test suite

Ypsilon 0.9.6 announcement

Ypsilon 0.9.6(The implementation of R6RS Scheme Programming Language for real-time applications) is available at:

http://code.google.com/p/ypsilon/

-Fujita

Ypsilon 0.9.5 released

I have uploaded Ypsilon 0.9.5-update2. I guess this version successfully fixed some bugs. Ypsilon has covered 98.9% of PLT R6RS test suite which has been released recently. I really appreciate the great cooperation from many people. Thank you so much.

Especially I’m pleased this time I could fix two concurrent GC bugs which are very hard to find. They were found in a test program called gcbench in R6RS Benchmards which Mr. William D Clinger kindly sent me. Many thanks to Mr. Scheme!

Ypsilon 0.9.5-update2 is available at: http://code.google.com/p/ypsilon/ Currently MacOS X, Windows Vista, and Linux are supported.

-Fujita