Karats and Coins has its own site. Yay! Feel free to click through to home of the best gold, silver coin and bullion calculator in the app store:
Comprehensive Gold Silver Calculator
My newest app – the most comprehensive gold and silver precious metal calculator is now available on the iTunes app store. This calculator is professionally and specifically designed for:
- gold and silver bullion buyers and sellers
- coin buyers and sellers
- investors and collectors
- pawnbrokers, and
- more
Get it from the app store here: Karats and Coins
What you get: Continue reading
Well, Simon’s at it again! This time he’s created a mandelbrot generator with Wee Basic. Who knew that this would be possible on a humble Nintendo DS? Here’s a screenshot:
Let’s not forget the code: Continue reading
Blog reader and Wee Basic programmer extraordinaire Simon Ferré has a very impressive program for the festive season creating this message:
All done with graphics. No cheating with images here!
And the code to prove it: Continue reading
As a program writer for a hombrew Ninento DS app and a few iphone/ipad apps, I find the latest trend in Nintendo’s fortunes hilarious. Nintendo, the company that was once printing money, is now reporting losses.
Look at this report from Engadget: Baby Steps??. Nintendo is clearly trying to begin its ascent from the dark ages, but with baby steps?? (Engadget’s attempt at humour). Nintendo is clearly a toddler in an industry moving at light speed. Continue reading
I now have a dropbox link to the latest wee basic editor. Let’s hope this works 
The old Wee Editor link is no longer working. Please use this one:
When Warner Bros fires Charlie Sheen for becoming the character that they want him to portray on their sitcom. Now they have to find another actor to portray Charlie Sheen…
When news stories can show explicit and real violence and death at prime time but boobies can only be seen after 9.30pm. Hey, every baby’s seen a boobie but not many should have to see a person’s head in all its deathly yellow rotting muddy grimace at dinner time…
That politicians can answer every question except the one they’ve been asked. It’s a combination of low IQ, wilful blindness and self promotion, all of which add up to running a country…
That a corporation maximises the money to be received by its shareholders while at the same time poisoning them with pollution, killing them with design flaws and destroying the planet thereby guaranteeing the death of their children. It’s all about the math…
When all it takes to succeed are narcissism and sociopathy. Well, there are checks and balances comprising boards and committees run by sociopaths and narcissists…
The video above is of an open pandora handheld running Civilization 2 on windows 3.1. Why should you care? Windows doesn’t run natively on an arm processor – okay so you’re bored already.
Brief how to (working off memory): Continue reading
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