2010

A Lights Out Game

When it comes to “Getting Started” tutorials one can’t really have enough of them. With that in mind, here’s another GUI application tutorial for Dolphin’s MVP framework. This time the aim is to create a simple game called “Lights Out”. More…
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Recovering from a Catastrophic Image Failure

The Dolphin image provides plenty of benefits to your development workflow. However, it should only be regarded as a temporary home for your work. This is brought home in dramatic fashion should you accidentally do something that causes your image to fail or damages it such that it won’t reload. More…
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Fun with Text 2 Speech

It’s very easy to add Text To Speech (TTS) facilities to your Smalltalk programs using an interface to the Microsoft Speech API. In this 5 minute video, I’ll take you through how it’s done. More…
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Messing with 3D in Dolphin Smallltalk

To keep my kids off the XBox in the summer vacation, I put together a 3D playground in Dolphin Smalltalk for them to mess around with. The result was Aragon3d, an object oriented wrapper around the popular Truevision3D library. More…
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