Latest entries

02 mar 2012
MiniTune 1.8.6 Released

27 feb 2012
Logical Bit Operators in Lua When Using Floats

I'm making some changes to the codebase that drives Max Astro before making my next game. The biggest change is that the engine is going to be controlled by Lua. Lua will run the main logic loop and lua will be the configuration language.

18 feb 2012
Migrating from Wordpress to Django CMS

Previously the Execution Unit website used Wordpress. I was quite happy with Wordpress and I still think it's a great blogging platform. My problem with it is that I wanted more than a blogging platform, I wanted a platform I could easily extend. I"m thinking of offering a free version of MiniTune with a time limited trial so I needed a platform that could deal with generating temporary keys and...

18 jan 2012
MiniTune 1.8.5 Released

A new free update to MiniTune has just been released to the App Store today. This is a minor release with a few small bug fixes but I've also added a neat feature that was requested in the comments in the Mac App Store....

11 dec 2011
MiniTune 1.8 Released

MiniTune 1.8 has been released on the Mac App App Store. 1.8 includes a few small updates to fix Growl 1.3.x support and a new theme that looks like a photograph...

06 dec 2011
dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSAttributedString

Updating Xcode seemed to screw up my project (again). Firstly it set the deployment target for Max Astro to iOS 5.0 and I suspect it changed the linker settings for the project as well. At first I didn't notice, after all who runs an iOS 3.1.3 device...

01 dec 2011
Trailer for Max Astro

28 nov 2011
Xcode Swig Build Rule

07 sep 2011
JBTech17 video review of MiniTune

JBTech17 has kindly reviewed MiniTune 1.6 in a video review on his youtube channel. The video goes over all the main features of MiniTune.

07 sep 2011
Mac Life Review of MiniTune

01 sep 2011
MiniTune 1.6 Released

MiniTune 1.6 should have reached the Mac App Store in your territory by now. Apple approved the build yesterday evening.

Most of the ground work for 1.6 was actually done in 1.5. I added skinning in the 1.5 release but there was only one skin. For 1.6 I've added a Vinyl LP skin...

09 aug 2011
MiniTune 1.5 Released

MiniTune 1.5 should be appearing on the App Store in the next 24 hours. If you're using Lion then this should fix all issues.... if you're still using Snow Leopard then nothing should be broken...

03 aug 2011
MiniTune Lion Issues

Despite testing MiniTune on Lion developer previews there are a few really annoying bugs that I've discovered since I've upgraded my main dev machine to Lion....

25 may 2011
MiniTune 1.02 released

Yesterday MiniTune 1.02 was released to the Apple App Store....

13 may 2011
XCode: Archive validation fails

If you ever see a message from archive validation that states

Path x in Bom is missing from payload

then you might be about to enter a world of pain that I've just exited from.