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I see someone's built a bunch of Plan 9–ey things and now I'm curious who it was.

aw, downloaded 1.3.3 of Exploration but I can't install it even via adb that I can figure out (incompatible ABI)

Since 9 is brown, those are what I call shitstain prices. Not very pleasant.

Fun related fact, the melonDS site theme was originally blue. I later thought it looked better in green, and changed it.

Regardless, I guess I'll see if this board is active and if I can talk about fun stuff.

It's fun seeing my old Green Night theme in there. I had forgotten about it... I can remember it being the default theme at Kuribo64 for a while, before the Kuribo64 theme (Nostalgia) was made. There was even an earlier version of the Green Night theme on the older Kuribo64 site/board.

EDIT- had a look at the theme list. I got the feeling the theme preview thingy wasn't working too well, but maybe it was just the server being a bit slow.

I also gotta add, this board's visual theme has an uncanny resemblance to the melonDS site. I wonder if you took inspiration from there? The background is different, but same idea, and the color scheme is very similar. Amusing.

*whistling whistling*
It is poisonous and 's contagious
You've heard it 'fore so just whistle with me
*whistling whistling*

The address for the Voxelmanip Classic server has changed from voxelmanip.se to server.voxelmanip.se. While you will be able to connect from both addresses right now, this will likely change sometime in the future. Please update your serverlist favourites!

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 23:42, in The Voxelmanip MUC on XMPP Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Ah, I see. I have an alt account on tchncs.de which I've used during times when my own XMPP server has been out of commission (like when I moved from OVH to Hetzner) and I haven't had any issues with that one, but I also have barely used it either.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 22:29, in The Voxelmanip MUC on XMPP Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	There is an XMPP MUC (multi-user chat, basically a group chat) related to this forum called The Voxelmanip MUC. It is a public room everyone can join, with the implication that if anyone stumbles upon the forums and wants to join it, they can get an invite by joining and introducing yourself there to get to know people. How that is going to actually work out I don't know, but I just like XMPP in general. Join! XMPP works a bit like email. You register on an XMPP server, then you get a handle that basically looks like an email address, username@server. And then you log in with an XMPP client and can talk to anyone regardless of the server they are on, or join group chats (which are called MUCs in XMPP terminology). If anyone needs suggestions for getting started: - Clients: Personally on desktop I use Gajim which exists for Windows, macOS and Linux. Then on Android I use Conversations which is available on F-Droid. - Servers: I host my own XMPP server with Prosody which is not too hard to do if you're a sysadmin type, but otherwise you can check this list for a list of public XMPP servers. I have an alt account on tchncs.de's XMPP server, but it may have some issues as olive pointed out in the thread.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 22:17, in Tensy Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Tensy is a puzzle game where you match numbers to sum up to ten. There are then different game modes with different gameplay but they all culminate in trying to get the highest score possible, which is then visible in the local in-game leaderboards. Simple but fun and addictive. It's been something I have been working for a time on now. It's written in C with basically just SDL and some other libraries and I have subsequently ported it to a grand total of seven platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, the Web, Haiku OS and the PSVita (homebrew). Recently, last week on the 22th I finally released a 1.0 of the game on itch.io: The downloadable game costs $5 but the web version is free and the source code is also available under the GPLv3, if you fancy some legal piracy. (really, it's more like shareware honestly)

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 22:00, in Introduction thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	The Voxelmanip MUC is basically empty... But you're free to join of course. I realise XMPP is very much not a popular platform. But compared to IRC where I used to have a channel for here (which was basically dead on arrival) it has at least a slim chance of people being able to use it. IRC is pure text basically needs you to have a bouncer to stay in the loop, while XMPP can handle disconnects, has file attachment support, profile pictures, E2E encryption (though that isn't applicable to public rooms where people come and go), etc... (As for client suggestions: On desktop I use Gajim which exists for Windows, macOS and Linux. On Android I use Conversations which is available on F-Droid) As for other chat platforms... I'm pretty jaded from it all at this point. Discord is normie central but still pretty usable... For now. Matrix is dysfunctional and full of spam. Telegram is sketchy, don't really like it. Signal would be good if it didn't require you to stay tethered to a phone to keep an account active (in addition to giving them your phone number... "private" and "secure") so it goes into the sketch box as well. And then all you have left is email.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 21:44, in if I were to host a Minecraft server for this forum... (probably alpha/beta but not exclusively so) Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Would be fun to see a Minecraft server either directly or loosely associated with this forum, whichever direction you would want to take it. I'm open for it. Though this forum is still pretty dead so I don't know if anyone else would show up to play on the server. I used to be very interested in old versions of Minecraft, specifically b1.7.3 as the last version before the Adventure Update. I played a lot on Puucraft about half a decade ago when it would have been on the... tenth map iteration? Don't remember but I accumulated a lot of diamonds and became very wealthy after pulling some stunts with the server's economy. Then it reset and I basically just left. In addition to that I also ran my own Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 server around that same timeframe but with a bit of a twist. Basically I had modified the server to make it use the unused sky world generator, just like what the Aether had based off of it. It was called SkySMP, and it had a website at sky-smp.tk which is since long ago gone. I should still have all the files for it stashed away somewhere but the most accessible remnant of it is this YouTube video I recorded after I had ported the modification from a mod to the vanilla server jar to a CraftBukkit plugin: Nowadays it's been a long time since I played the pre-release versions of Minecraft. The slowness of the versions that don't feature sprinting really gets tiring after a while. Last summer I played on a Minecraft 1.21 server started by a regional Discord server I'm in, I invited a friend to play along with and we built a base together (video). It was fun but after three weeks or so the activity plummeted and I don't know the current status of the Minecraft server. I think he turned it off and is holding on to the map for the future. I've always yearned for a classic Minecraft SMP experience. When I was growing up I would watch ZackScott's Minecraft Let's Play where he was playing on his own SMP server with a rotating cast of various friends and frenemies. And the first "season" of that let's play fits neatly in to the pre-b1.8 Minecraft experience. Back then I was playing a cracked/offline version of Minecraft, so I was mostly excluded from the mainstream SMPs and minigame servers my classmates would play on and did not know about the existence of offline mode servers at the time. Now I own the game legally after someone gifted me an account in 2023 so I can join just about any server. But I also realise I don't really have time to invest into an SMP anymore. Not to mention that the private servers I have joined in recent years and have shut down after a month at most when everyone stops playing, making them a very ephemeral time sink. ... Going to answer your questions also... I suppose the selection of the game version would come down to either b1.7.3 or 1.7-1.12. Going below b1.7.3 has increasingly unstable and unfinished netcode, and b1.8-1.6.4 is this void for me because I've never really been fond of any of those versions. Lack of mipmapping and some other visual and non-visual QoL features combined with the bad terrain gen is what makes me feel that, probably. 1.7 is where it becomes fun again, and then we can set another end at 1.12 for technical reasons because past that point the system requirements for a server basically increased exponentially. You can be the one to decide which of those versions to go with, but if you pick b1.7.3 I would just suggest this CraftBukkit fork which AFAIK is the most maintained public server software for that version. Mods? Don't know, I haven't dabbled a lot into modded Minecraft. I'm sure that could be interesting. I personally don't know if I would be able to invest much time into the server. But I would of course stop by and show my presence on the server hopefully.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-11-25 21:37, in The Voxelmanip First Thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Yeah, things are a bit calmer again now... tends to go up and down a bit like a rollercoaster

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-29 23:39, in The Voxelmanip First Thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	hi hi! Things have been busy lately with university. Feeling a bit stressed, but hopefully things should calm down again in some days.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-24 19:47, in The Voxelmanip Classic Server! Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by olive I see someone's built a bunch of Plan 9–ey things and now I'm curious who it was. I assume it was valia who built it, one of kittynunu's friends. This one is a pixel reconstruction of her profile picture of XMPP which I believe is supposed to resemble Glenda from Plan 9. (In case anyone wonders, I have the OhCeeDee texture pack applied, which supports Voxelmanip Classic now.)

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-19 17:43, in Exploration and the lite version, more than mere minecraft clones Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by olive aw, downloaded 1.3.3 of Exploration but I can't install it even via adb that I can figure out (incompatible ABI) I found a 1.3.3 version of Exploration on archive.org that has armeabi, armeabi-v7a and x86 native libraries included in the APK. If that one doesn't work you probably have one of those ARM64-only devices (which can only run apps with arm64-v8a libs), and would need to try with a slightly older Android device lying around that still can run 32-bit apps.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-10 14:49, in synesthesia Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	I see, interesting. Posted by Arisotura Since 9 is brown, those are what I call shitstain prices. Not very pleasant. Right! I remember that now. I had recalled you mentioning something about 9 being brown and how it affected the perception of such prices somewhere on the melonDS blog, but wasn't able to find it again. Was probably a couple years ago now.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-10 00:57, in synesthesia Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	I don't have synesthesia, but it does seem like quite an interesting phenomenon. Are the colour associations fixed or has it fluctuated over time? I assume the scheme is also personal to you so seeing it fully laid out would be interesting if that is possible. (Another thing I was wondering is whether it affects the perception of psychological pricing; like prices ending in a bunch of nines to make it seem cheaper, and such)

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-10 00:28, in Introduction thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by Arisotura Fun related fact, the melonDS site theme was originally blue. I later thought it looked better in green, and changed it. Ah yeah I do remember that, blue and maybe a bit purple-ish. Back before there was any proper logo and the header was just a big "melonDS" link. It's been a bit fun having had my sight on melonDS before it became really big and basically achieved total domination over the DS emulation scene. Regardless, I guess I'll see if this board is active and if I can talk about fun stuff. Please do! It would be great to have you here (I assume you have also found the page for generating invite codes), but no pressure. There's... the occasional other member who shows up every once in a while but other than that it's pretty inactive unfortunately. I have tried in various ways to convince friends and acquaintances to join here but they are either those who are happy using Discord, or they are on XMPP and the Fediverse instead. Forums don't even register on their radar, unless they need to ask about something and begrudgingly register on some support forum. Also I'm happy you're still keeping the original Kuribo64 board up after all these years, even though melonDS has ended up sorta overshadowing the main website it's hosted under. The nostalgia needs to live on. And Staryu Trek seems to have singlehandedly caused a mini-insurgence in activity that even got me to stop lurking after almost a decade and make an account there. Not completely dead, unlike what Kafuka seems to be now. It's fun seeing my old Green Night theme in there. I had forgotten about it... I can remember it being the default theme at Kuribo64 for a while, before the Kuribo64 theme (Nostalgia) was made. There was even an earlier version of the Green Night theme on the older Kuribo64 site/board. I also remember Green Night being the default theme in the old version of Kuriblog that's floating around on the Internet. Nice and simple green theme, I've always been fond of it which was why I've kept it around (in addition to fitting with Voxelmanip Forums' green primary colour). I think @Heredos still has it set as their theme on the forums. EDIT- had a look at the theme list. I got the feeling the theme preview thingy wasn't working too well, but maybe it was just the server being a bit slow. Also don't know what's up about that. The dynamic theme preview is just a single line of JavaScript that changes the URL of the theme CSS (should not be too dissimilar to what 2.064 does), and the theme files are like a kilobyte or so.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-10 00:27, in Minor gripe about editprofile Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Hmm I see. Checking whether both password fields have something in them sounds like a good idea, but I ended up looking into it and apparently there is a hint called `autocomplete="new-password"` specifically for putting on "enter new password" fields to tell browsers not to autofill it, which sounds just about perfect. The change is live, and I tested that it should at least work on Firefox, I assume that's what you're still rocking.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-09 19:23, in Introduction thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Oh hey! Really cool seeing you here (I genuinely did not expect you to show up and was shocked when I got the RSS post notification while eating dinner) Yes, this forum nowadays runs a custom forum software called Cirrusboard that I wrote from scratch originally for a final project in secondary school. It's not Acmlmboard but it certainly still has the vibe to it, post layouts and themes and all. Unfortunately these general topic kinds of forums don't tend to be all that active nowadays (everyone likes their Discords...) but at least it is still up after over three years of it running, so that's at least something. The melonDS forums seem to be absolutely popping though and carrying the Acmlmboard legacy, when I've talked to people and mentioned Acmlmboard they tend to simply know it as "that forum software melonDS uses". I also gotta add, this board's visual theme has an uncanny resemblance to the melonDS site. I wonder if you took inspiration from there? The background is different, but same idea, and the color scheme is very similar. Amusing. Heh. I do have to admit I maybe took a little bit of inspiration with the translucency and such. Though I did just use the same background image generator that Kak made and green is also my favourite colour so that's just the primary colour I went for the forums. When these forums first launched I used the (Acmlmboard fork of the) ABXD default theme but recoloured to green, which is still available in the theme picker as "Voxelmanip ABXD". But after some time I wanted to spice things up with a new default theme, and this was what I came up with.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-09 17:29, in The car appreciation thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	We haven't had a functional car for over 2 years at this point, but this summer we rented a car for a trip to see some relatives on the west coast. And I think that was probably the first time I sat in a car made within the last decade. Modern cars are equally fancy and horrifying. Where is the CD tray? They just replaced the tactile car stereo buttons with a touchscreen? So fancy, but yet no built-in GPS satnav, what's the point? Apparently you could connect your phone with Bluetooth but we never got that to work. Don't know what the issue with wires is. Let's see what is on the radio... whistling whistling It is poisonous and 's contagious You've heard it 'fore so just whistle with me whistling whistling Weird local radio station playing obscure music. Now that's the classic car experience.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-05 15:16, in nerdy memes (edited 2025-10-05 16:16) Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	The anatomy of an OVHcloud datacenter, circa 2021:

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-09 17:12, in The line ending wars - AKA CRLF hate thread Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	I guess I forgot to mention this forum thread received a sequel last year in the form of a blog post expanding upon the original forum post.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-09 17:08, in The Voxelmanip Classic Server! Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	This has been in effect for about a month by now and listed on the website but I'll just post it here too: The address for the Voxelmanip Classic server has changed from voxelmanip.se to server.voxelmanip.se. While you will be able to connect from both addresses right now, this will likely change sometime in the future. Please update your serverlist favourites! Unfortunately I haven't really been active on the server for a very long time at this point. But I see there are still people who join occasionally, and it's sitting on the same server that runs the Principia community site which isn't going anywhere anytime soon. So it's not in any danger of shutting down as long as it can just run autonomously has it has been for the past years.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-05 18:47, in post here cats Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	Very cute cats. When I met up with kittynunu for the first time in July last year I got to meet his family's cat, Tofu. He was quite shy but I managed to at least get this photo.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-10-05 16:50, in Images on the forum Link
Posts: 255 Joined: 2022-06-04	I have added a new BBCode tag called `imgs`, based on the old ABXD tag with the same name. It means "image small", "image scaled", whatever, but basically it's an image thumbnail. It will scale down the image to fit within a 300x300 area and you can then click on the image to expand it: Since I would like to encourage people to use this tag, especially for larger images, I have changed the image button in the post toolbar to use this one now. Just remove the "s" from the tag if you really do want the image to be displayed at the original size (like a screenshot that is small but still larger than 300x300).