Summer Break

Wow, it's been quite a while since my last post.  In the meantime the Rockbox folks released version 3.9.  I built a test release of that for IZ2S and the sound quality has apparently returned to satisfactory levels.  So now I just need to build it (and the plugins) for z2lite and package up some releases to be back on track with the mainline Rockbox code.  However summer's in full swing here which means vacations, gardening, lawn work, and kids home from school are altogether too distracting to get much of anything done.  In fact the kids got a new dual band wifi router and relocated it into the living room, leaving my ancient wired network with all my zipit dev tools disconnected and out in the cold until I get motivated to crawl around the attic and connect them to the new setup.  Not likely under the oppressive summer sun...

So I gotta do something to keep busy until things cool off a bit.  Turns out things have picked up a bit in the ldraw world lately.  They got themselves a new forum, released a new batch of parts, and put out a new all-in-one installer which apparently installs ldglite as an optional component.  So now I've gotta deal with a burst of new bug reports rolling in all of a sudden.   Mostly about supporting all the shiny new colors folks are building with these days.  Here's the old ldglite color table.

And here's what they wanted, based on the latest ldraw package.

As you can see, I was missing quite a few of the new colors spread about the grey area.  Also some of the basic colors were redefined, which I've been resisting, but I finally gave in and implemented most of the "official" changes.  I only kept a few of the brighter candy colors from the original code.  It's all updated in CVS on the sourceforge.  I just need to do some releases...