Despite Metroid being my favorite game series, I never played Metroid 2 on the GB. So I'm excited to play a nice modernized version (a la Zero Mission). Also, yes, it runs well in wine :)
Really excited to see things built on top of Hypervisor.framework. I work with genomics researchers and I'm always encouraging Docker images for reproducible analyses. Starting workflows on OS X that can scale beyond laptops is really interesting! Thanks!
This is great, particularly the "Update Branch" feature. Prior to that, the only way to update a branch (or a fork for that matter) was to use an external client to merge in upstream changes and push back to GitHub.
I worked on a project with several non-developer users updating content. The web interface works well for simple HTML/CSS changes, but if we developers moved or renamed a file, their forks would immediately be useless. This feature should make that a non-issue.
Thanks, I'm always wondering if boot2docker is running, this is great to have at a glance.
However, I think the click action is mystery meat. I expect when I click a menu bar item that I get a menu showing more details and actions. The way it works now, one click kills my VM, which is not a great UX for something between a bunch of other status icons.
Also,
> Just click the whale, and you're off to the races.
I have two apps in the iOS app store. One launched in 2009 (Filer) and the other in 2010 (FLAC Player). I've been really lucky that both have done so well, especially 5 years on. I maintain them for major iOS releases and hardware changes, but the little time I have I try to work on new stuff and supporting them. My wife helps with support emails now, which has been a huge help.
Neither app has any server-side components, so they don't cost me anything but squarespace fees for my website and my iOS dev program membership.
Edit: Oh yeah, they're both paid apps and I don't fiddle with the pricing
This is really interesting technically, a couple tidbits I dug up looking in the mac app bundle:
1. There are a couple of OpenGL shaders in the bundle for converting the screen image to HDTV color space/format (420v.fgsh) and some kind of passthrough.
2. They appear to be using x264 to encode the screen with defaults of 1280x720, 1000kbit, superfast preset. (Defaults.plist)
So on the mac side, they're definitely capturing the screen and sending a streaming video. Not surprising, but the curious part is how they manage to get the iPad to stream in that data over USB. I suppose something like HTTP Live Streaming[1] could work. Place small files into the device's Documents area, and they get streamed. It would be awesome if something else was going on here - like a named pipe.
Static recompilation seemed like an obvious solution to emulating games in theory, but it was fascinating to see just what it would take. Also loved to read about the clever tricks from 30 years ago and how we can or can't deal with them.