Browsing archives for February, 2007

Wii Media Center should be right around the corner

20 February 2007 | 3 Comments

Since the Wii is running the Opera browser, it’s (in a sense) allowing us to run limited unsigned applications on the Wii. Even more, through Opera (and perhaps not even limited to Opera), the Wii supports SWF natively. The first thing we can do with this is write a media center as a web-application that [...]

man would i like to write a wii emulator

5 February 2007 | 1 Comment

Why ? First of all because the wii is a cool console, but second of all, because such an emulator could run on many different devices. The PC would be the first target, should be no problem as it’s got bluetooth for the wii-mote, wifi/lan for the net connection, a screen and so forth… But [...]

COM, STA, apartment, reentrancy, re-entrancy

1 February 2007 | 1 Comment

are you getting cyclic function call graphs in your STA (or multiple STAs) ?so you’ve probably heard of re-entrancy. if you’re re-entrancy are due to a COM call waiting on some handles (WaitForSingle/MultipleObject/s), you can replace it with CoWaitForMultipleHandles What this method does is wait for your handles, but also handles new COM calls (through [...]