Software I have written.
A workspace is a set of git repositories. They are listed in the “Repos” tab in a main window’s left pane. You can have several different sets of repositories, each one stored in a different workspace file.
Having an option to group sets of git repositories is useful when you have unrelated sets which you may want to keep separate.
Continue readingGitForce uses PuTTY daemon and PLINK proxy to manage SSH keys for git commands. These executables are built into the GitForce application and do not need to be installed separately. This tutorial assumes you are setting up a GitHub project, but the same principle should apply to other SSH servers.
Continue readingThe Tools menu provides ways to integrate external applications and commands within GitForce.
Continue readingGit is a popular source revision control system. GitForce is a visual front-end for the git command line tool, which runs on both Windows and Linux. It is designed to be easy and intuitive to use and yet powerful enough so you don’t need to use a command line git.
Continue readingIn this post, I describe porting a small application, a calculator called SpeedCrunch, to WebAssembly and some common issues that need to be addressed. I hope you may find some solutions helpful and save time should you want to target the WebAssembly platform with your code.
For those eager to see the result, the application is available here: SpeedCrunch (WebAssembly)
I have also compiled and bundled a new Windows version (with all my changes included): /files/speedcrunch/speedcrunch-0.12.1.zip
Porting a Qt application to WebAssembly (WASM) presented some unique challenges. Qt, known for its cross-platform capabilities, initially posed difficulties when targeting WebAssembly, but improved support in later versions smoothed the process. Announced in 2015 and first released in March 2017, WebAssembly was added as an officially supported target to Qt with Qt 5.13.
The application I wanted to port is a small but highly practical calculator called SpeedCrunch. The desktop version was my trusted companion for more than a decade, particularly for work involving binary number manipulation, thanks to its efficient binary digits editor. This feature was invaluable for working with binary representations, a common task in my professional workflow as a CPU architect. Beyond work, I also used the application for various personal calculations.
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Continue readingZ80 Explorer is a visual netlist-level simulator for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. You can read more about it in my main blog article. This release adds some features and improvements I felt were missing as I deep-dived into the chip’s functioning.
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It has been a while since I wrote the last post on this project. In the meantime, I could dedicate all my limited free time to work on the implementation. It took a long time, but I did make significant progress. The calculator is pretty much completed.
Continue readingFor as long as I remember, I had played with LEGOs. Those simple blocks would transform into complex objects whose final shapes only existed in the supple thoughts of creative imagination. The kind of LEGO blocks we had while growing up were simple: 2×4, 2×2, 1×8. Anything unusual was rare and precious.
Continue readingIn the last post, we verified and quantified the precision of the basic four functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). Now, we can use them as a stepping stone for more complex functions. We can assume they will be available, so our experimentation could simply use built-in C++ functions.
In this article, the third in a series, we will continue with the proof-of-concept, or pathfinding, research.
Continue readingThis is the second article in a series on making our calculator. This article is about prototyping and the verification of fundamental algorithms.
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