We learn to build small software. Then we try to build big software by scaling up, and it turns out this doesn't work as well as you might hope.

That's right! I'm not dead, just... resting. Zoom 1.1.5 is finally out! This version fixes several issues relating to Snow Leopard and Lion, and updates the git and glulxe interpreters to the latest versions. This is particularly important for git, as…

Zoom 1.1.4.1 has been released. This is primarily a maintenance release, with various bugfixes accumulated over the last year and updates to the interpreters. It has one major new feature: you can now choose which glulx interpreter to use in the…

To go along with the release of Zoom 1.1.4, I've released a new version of CocoaGlk, version 1.0.7. This contains many bug fixes over the previous release and can be downloaded from its Google Code page here.

The question that I probably get asked the most about Zoom for OS X is 'how do I get the Beyond Zork font?' The answer since I ported it to Cocoa has been 'you can't', unfortunately: the old system for displaying the font simply didn't work with the new…

Development so far has actually been quite quick as I've been focusing on the things that are the same on the iPhone as on desktop OS X. Eventually, I'm going to need to address the differences, though. Technical Synchronisation Something I would really…

So, Apple have (finally) released the iPhone SDK today. developer.apple.com is apparently too busy celebrating this momentous occasion to actually bother to respond to any http requests so I haven't had a chance to look at the SDK yet. Even so, I plan to…