Re: [alex stt org: gtetrinet and "qualified client"]

[Alex Lock <alex stt org>]

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> Good. I commented about your new Cocoa client on IRC and a few people
> were excited about the news. We've had requests to separate the client
> code from the gui code in the past, in order to make a Cocoa port
> possible, but that's quite hard right now, so we never even tried to do
> it. Someday a libtetrinet package will be born, I guess.

Yeah....  I realized fairly early on that to make it play nice with a 
Cocoa interface would require a re-write of a VAST majority of the 
underlying code....  honestly the engine code IS fairly 
compartmentalized (at least to me);  it's just that it relies entirely 
on ANSI C types (C strings, etc) which don't always play well w/ Cocoa 
types (NSString etc.).

As for the people who were interested in the port... I had a (big) 
milestone today...  I PASSED the client check on tetridome.com.  For 
some reason tetrinet.org still doesn't like me, but tetridome seems to 
think I'm ok (after a couple of bans requiring a reset of the 'ol DSL 
modem).  Honestly I only have a few touches to put on the interface 
(and add support for the partyline, which has sofar been neglected due 
to the (relative) ease of implementation; wanted to get the hard stuff 
out of the way first.

As soon as I get a domain registered I'll put up some screenshots/info. 
 I'd expect an "alpha" type of release in the next week or two.  I'd 
call it a beta, but my code still needs LOTS of cleaning;  this one 
will definitely be for the adventurous only as there are quite a few 
bugs and at least a couple memory leaks that need to be tracked down:)  
So I'll release an "alpha" test for those who want it with the express 
understanding that I'm still in development and there's a good chance 
it might not work as advertised all the time.

> Ow. That's a problem... yeah. I'd guess the ban is temporary, or their
> list of bans might be so huge they'd need terabytes of ram :)
>
> I'm afraid I don't know who admins the server though, so I can't help
> you there. Have you looked at the webpage for a contact address?

I found that by resetting my DSL modem (and thus getting a new IP) I 
can get around it;  very annoying though.  The contacts section on 
tetrinet..org webpage is blank, and a whois turns up nothing 
(obviously).  Maybe I'll send an e-mail to admin tetrinet org and hope 
I get lucky.

If anyone has any insight into my tetrinet.org client check problems 
I'd be grateful (I went ahead and joined the gtet list, so I can keep 
up w/ what's new, etc.);  it seems to be my last real barrier to 
getting something functional out.

Thanks again for all your help!

Alex <alex stt org>