The Mana World

I gave an impromptu presentation at KWLUG tonight on an open source game currently in active development called The Mana World. Being a Linux guy, I completely forgot to mention that the game also runs on MacOS and Windows.

I posted a html version of the slides at: http://members.porchlight.ca/charm/tmw/themanaworld.html

Finally I found a few web sites that definitively state that you cannot install/use a Sun SparcStation 5 without the keyboard. This has been a bit of a thorn in my side, trying to determine whether I need a new NVRAM, or whether it's just the fact that I need a keyboard to get my Sparc going. I'm still going through the stew of Sparc 5 links, but I'll probably add a few (blogs) to the sidebars here.

While I'm on the topic of unusual hardware, I picked up a NCD ThinStar 400 Windows CE thin client the other day for some pocket change. I'm missing the power adapter, but everything else appears to be in good order. Perhaps one day I might see if I can get the Linux Terminal Server Project running on it. The box is suppose to be capable of 1600x1200, pretty impressive resolution.