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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] meeting

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:10:37PM -0700, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Met with the math dept at St Catherine elementary here in cinti.
> Had to actually take a pc with me since they ony have Macs. I left it
> there for a week or so so they'll have a chance to try some students
> out on it...
> 
> Showed off tuxmath and tuxtype (gave them three cd's w/tuxtype [win32])
> bookmarked the tux4kids sites after giving a tour...
> 
> Hopes it helps...
> 
> We have permission to use "The Staff of St. Catherines of Cincinnati"
> on the credits page... 

Thanks much. :)

-bill!

[Tuxmath-devel] Fwd: Re: [Tuxtype-dev] meeting

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

whoops.... I sent this reply to the wrong list ;-)

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On Thursday 27 September 2001  3:10, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Met with the math dept at St Catherine elementary here in cinti.
> Had to actually take a pc with me since they ony have Macs. I left it
> there for a week or so so they'll have a chance to try some students
> out on it...
>
> Showed off tuxmath and tuxtype (gave them three cd's w/tuxtype [win32])
> bookmarked the tux4kids sites after giving a tour...
>
> Hopes it helps...
>
> We have permission to use "The Staff of St. Catherines of Cincinnati"
> on the credits page...

Hey, that sounds great ;-)

Did they happen to say anything negative or positive about the city explosion
animations? I have been having a lot of conversations with different teachers
local to me who are using the game and they all want us to keep the explosion
animations..... So I don't know what to do....

...Maybe we should conduct a poll on our SourceForge page? Polls are
relatively easy to set up (Bill, if you want to start the poll, feel free,
but wait for a bit before we do the announcing. I've been very busy this week
dealing with a leaky water main into my house, and I will be busy again
today. Hopefully, after today, I can focus on other things more ;-)

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[Tuxmath-devel] meeting

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

Hey all,

Met with the math dept at St Catherine elementary here in cinti.
Had to actually take a pc with me since they ony have Macs. I left it
there for a week or so so they'll have a chance to try some students
out on it...

Showed off tuxmath and tuxtype (gave them three cd's w/tuxtype [win32])
bookmarked the tux4kids sites after giving a tour...

Hopes it helps...

We have permission to use "The Staff of St. Catherines of Cincinnati"
on the credits page... 


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[Tuxmath-devel] My thoughts

[David M. <ma...@si...>]

It's been over a week since the tragic events of 9/11, so here's my 
thoughts:

I think we should carry on with TuxMath - Bill and Sam have obviously 
both already put in a large amount of effort, and I think it's already 
an enjoyable, very profesional looking app.  Besides, any resemblance to 
the tragic events of last week are totally accidental, and no shame 
could possibly be attached to naybody, or the premise behind the game.

In terms of replacing/modifying the city graphics, I was thinking about 
it on the way home from work last night, and came up with the following:

how about using jam jars - the glass receptacles used to keep the sticky 
stuff in that you put on toast - as replacements for the cities.  They 
would be empty on start-up, and slowly fill up with "goo" as the comets 
(or lumps of goo) land of them.  This way, there would be a much better 
visual indication of how close the base/city/whatever was to being "used 
up".  Sam, you could also use this for your idea of allowing the 
"damage" to the bases to regress if the player does well (i.e. the jar 
would become less full of goo).

What do you think??

---
David


P.S.   -  i really like the new music :-)

[Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath video perfmance

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

I tested tuxmath on Peanut 9.0b2

the comets actually go fatser than the comet-anim.gif
the comets only take 10 secs to complete the fall.

Pnut 9 ships with the latest XFREE 4.1.0 w/dri & glx
linux 2.4.10

the video performance improvement is very-very impressive

XFREE comes with an app called glxgears that displays framerate
copying that app to my RH7.1 drive allowed me to document the
improvement.

on my rh 7.1 box framerate averages 53fps
this same system reports 80fps under Peanut 9.0 beta a 66% improvement.

this video card is a Trident 3DImage 975 agp non-hardware accellerated
card. I have heard of some reports of 3-4 hundred fps on some voodoos
so the need for limiting animation speeds may be needed


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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

I tried it. Its pretty clear to me.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

> On Friday 14 September 2001  8:47am, Jacob Greig wrote:
> > something i thought of was that the comits look like they could pass as
> > spit or something. mAybe we should change the animation so that instead
> > of the cities blowing up, they just get covered in blue goop (from the
> > comits)

Alright, I have Jake's idea partly done and am ready for input. You can get 
my test images here:
http://www.geekcomix.com/dm/tuxmath/splat.tar.gz

Basically, this contains replacements for  cdead-*.png (for all the colors) 
and replacement explosion animations for blue and green. It also contains my 
original GIMP XCF source. These should go into "data/images/cities/" (except 
for the GIMP source).

I am posting this partly done because I'm not sure I like the animation now 
that I've done it. I know we can tweak it as we go along, but I'm not sure if 
it's clear what's happenning to the cities. So I wanted people's comments 
before I proceed.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  8:47am, Jacob Greig wrote:
> something i thought of was that the comits look like they could pass as
> spit or something. mAybe we should change the animation so that instead of
> the cities blowing up, they just get covered in blue goop (from the comits)

Just reposting Jake's idea.... because I did like it, and I haven't heard 
anyone else's thoughts on it.

Another thought (along the same lines as Jake's) I had was  what if these 
comets were ice-balls (which is actually what I originally intended them to 
be). And what if instead of blowing up the city, they froze the city.

One thing that could be done in this case would be to have problems on the 
frozen cities. If you solve a problem on a frozen city in a certain amount of 
time, you can actually save the cities (perhaps even use the lazer to melt 
the ice or something.)

Idunno... it's another thought.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

> (These things being said, I'd just like to add that I think the first
> places 
> where we would see wide-spread Linux/Open-Source software use in the 
> classroom will most likely be in the private, charter, religious,
> etc. 
> schools, simply because they usually have less overhead technology 
> infrastructure to deal with. ;-)

That being said Sam, I was extremely suprised to hear from the
parochial school, of their lack of trouble getting funding for PC's.
I'm used to the public schools situation which is exactly the opposite!



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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  1:39pm, Samuel Hart wrote:
> Just a quick FYI (from my experience):
>
> Public Schools may have a problem (the paper-work involved in getting
> permission for "non-preapproved" software installed is usually a nightmare
> in school districts) simply because if an individual administrator (or
> teacher, or even simple tech-head) is using the software on a testing
> basis, they may not necessarily have permission to do do.

Also, to add to what I've already said, because there have been soooo many 
legal and financial attacks on schools in the last five years, public schools 
in particular are very paranoid (and rightly so) about installing software 
that isn't "approved" simply because they dont understand the licenses 
involved.

(PS: we have some massive work ahead of ourselves to convince schools that 
not only can they find quality software in the Open-Source/Free-Software 
worlds... but that they can trust the licenses will give them more freedoms 
and less legal worry than the licenses they are familier with ;-)

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001 11:44am, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> > Ahh... Good point.  :)  Ok, can someone check for me? :)
>
> All I can do is to add that to my agenda (they are at this point
> scheduling a meeting with the math depts for me)
>
> However I don't see a problem...

Just a quick FYI (from my experience):

Public Schools may have a problem (the paper-work involved in getting 
permission for "non-preapproved" software installed is usually a nightmare in 
school districts) simply because if an individual administrator (or teacher, 
or even simple tech-head) is using the software on a testing basis, they may 
not necessarily have permission to do do.

Private, charter, religious, etc. schools may or may not have problems 
depending on their circumstances (private and charter schools will likely not 
have many problems, rather they'd like the PR.... religious schools may have 
a problem simply because they might not want to be affiliated with 
non-corportate groups [this is a very if-y area... some may have problems, 
other may not...] )

(These things being said, I'd just like to add that I think the first places 
where we would see wide-spread Linux/Open-Source software use in the 
classroom will most likely be in the private, charter, religious, etc. 
schools, simply because they usually have less overhead technology 
infrastructure to deal with. ;-)

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:47:55AM -0700, Jacob Greig wrote:

> dont beat yourself up. the animation was inocent enough, and you (no one) had any way of anticpating this.

I guess I'm really glad my girlfriend suggested we change the UFOs
(which were pretty much crashing into the buildings) to something less
violent.

Shudder.

-bill!

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

> 
> Ahh... Good point.  :)  Ok, can someone check for me? :)

All I can do is to add that to my agenda (they are at this point
scheduling a meeting with the math depts for me)

However I don't see a problem...

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:49:00AM -0700, Samuel Hart wrote:
> On Thursday 13 September 2001  6:22pm, William Kendrick wrote:
> > I'd like to add info. on the playtesters to the credits screen.
> > I know some folks (Greg and Calvin) are having teachers/students test
> > it.  At the very least, it'd be nice to include the school names.
> >
> > Please send 'em as you get 'em, and I'll add them to src/credits.c
> 
> Actually, from a legal standpoint, we may want to verify with the 
> administration of these schools that we can include their names in the 
> credits.

Ahh... Good point.  :)  Ok, can someone check for me? :)

Thanks!

-bill!

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  9:42am, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> I believe your graphics at this point are abstract enough to seperate
> the program from reality.

Thanks, that's what I am starting to think. But Idunno.... Jake's idea of 
goop covered cities does seem more palettable at this point also.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  8:47am, Jacob Greig wrote:
> --- Samuel Hart <cri...@ge...>
>
> > wrote:
> >My wife feels that it may be too soon after this horrible thing for us to
> >decide. She feels that we may want to wait, giving ourselves a bit of time
> >and hopefully some sense of closure before we make this decision.
>
> <snip>
>
> >So what we may want to do is put this project on hold for a bit, and
> > return to it sometime in the future, when we feel ready, and
>
> make the decision then.
>
> I think this is a good idea aslo.
>
> something i thought of was that the comits look like they could pass as
> spit or something. mAybe we should change the animation so that instead of
> the cities blowing up, they just get covered in blue goop (from the comits)

That's a good idea.... But we would probably want to avoid calling the comets 
"spit" for ... erm... obvious reasons ;-)

> but I agree we should give it some time before we decide 100% what we want
> to do.

I am actually feeling much better today than I did yesterday (I've been at 
the computer most of the day, and have been playing Rune for a bit of it 
[ug... I was hoping for more from this game ;-) ] so I've avoided the TV).

I think that we will probably be able to recover from this shock, and make 
appropriate decisions within a week or so.

> >If we do put it on hold, there are several other possible projects in the
> >pipeline we could work on. There are many ECD (early childhood
> > development) titles we've been talking about for a few months now, and we
> > could work on them.
>
> would this include "Catch the Goblin?" :)

We could do that one....

The only problem there is that I am yet to contact the creator of the song we 
wanted to use for it (and, this is kind of important, as most of you know, 
because the game was really inspired from the song ;-)

I have tried, but I can't seem to get through to this Skaven person (if 
anyone else has had any success, please let me know).

> >again... And possibly with time, I wont feel ashamed I made the city
> >animations for TuxMath that I did.
>
> dont beat yourself up. the animation was inocent enough, and you (no one)
> had any way of anticpating this.

Thx. Yeah I'm sure there are a lot of designers who have been faced with 
equally (or even more) depressing thoughts because they have created things 
that hit so close (I'd imagine that whomever made the final levels in Twisted 
Metal Black is probably wracked with grief over the whole thing.... And I 
would be most surprised if the levels weren't removed in the upcoming 
internet version...)

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

> things have taken over TV... you can't escape it... Tonight I would
> have sold 
> my right arm just to watch a sitcom (something inane and
> light-hearted... 
> something other than these live shots of the rubble!) I feel like I'm
> 
> drowning in it.

Sam,

Same here Sam. thats why I went bowling last night with my brothers. I
don't bowl sam, i just watch. Sam take the advice thats all over the
networks right now. Its actually for our kids...

TURN THE DAMN THING OFF...

But aren't we kids too???


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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

My thoughts,

When I first saw tuxmath I didn't see cities.... Indeed I saw cactuses!
It wasn't till later hearing Bill call them "cities" that I connected.

I agree with Sams wife we should wait... maybe.

I believe your graphics at this point are abstract enough to seperate
the program from reality.

One more thought, If you did make a change. In my experience boys are
attracted to games with this type of plot, but girls lose interest very
quickly. I would also like to see a plot that girls interest could be
held better, maybe colaterally with what we are doing...



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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Jacob G. <bom...@fi...>]

--- Samuel Hart <cri...@ge...>
> wrote:
>My wife feels that it may be too soon after this horrible thing for us to 
>decide. She feels that we may want to wait, giving ourselves a bit of time 
>and hopefully some sense of closure before we make this decision.
<snip>
>So what we may want to do is put this project on hold for a bit, and return 
>to it sometime in the future, when we feel ready, and 
make the decision then.

I think this is a good idea aslo.

something i thought of was that the comits look like they could pass as spit or something. mAybe we should change the animation so that instead of the cities blowing up, they just get covered in blue goop (from the comits)

but I agree we should give it some time before we decide 100% what we want to do.

>If we do put it on hold, there are several other possible projects in the 
>pipeline we could work on. There are many ECD (early childhood development) 
>titles we've been talking about for a few months now, and we could work on 
>them.

would this include "Catch the Goblin?" :)

>again... And possibly with time, I wont feel ashamed I made the city 
>animations for TuxMath that I did.

dont beat yourself up. the animation was inocent enough, and you (no one) had any way of anticpating this.


==
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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Thursday 13 September 2001 10:45pm, Samuel Hart wrote:
> I will be back online tomorrow. I will be on the #tux4kids IRC at
> openprojects.net as soon as I get up (pssobliy 8-9am MST) and online if
> anyone wants to talk. We can also discuss it on this list (but please let's
> stay focused).

Just wanted to clarify when I was going to be online for the chat. When I 
said "tomorrow" I meant "Friday, 9-14" (or today, since I wrote it yesterday).

Basically, I will be getting in the channel in about ten minutes from right 
now.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Thursday 13 September 2001  6:22pm, William Kendrick wrote:
> I'd like to add info. on the playtesters to the credits screen.
> I know some folks (Greg and Calvin) are having teachers/students test
> it.  At the very least, it'd be nice to include the school names.
>
> Please send 'em as you get 'em, and I'll add them to src/credits.c

Actually, from a legal standpoint, we may want to verify with the 
administration of these schools that we can include their names in the 
credits.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Repost??? sdl & fullscreen

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Monday 10 September 2001  5:57pm, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> heres a picture of it on this system taken with my camera its not a
> good
> shot the screen is very clear but you can see the two lines thick one
> running down left side of screen and thin one running across top...

This is because your modelines aren't set correctly under XFree86. (As I said 
before)

> this is across the board on all sdl apps I've tested! It does seem to
> be
> specfic to hardware since the video cards it does it on , it always
> does it
> on, sometimes these line are left on the screen after the programs
> exit...

It is not specific of your hardware, but due to your set up.

As I recall, you have X 3.3.6, which means that setting up your modelines is 
a bit tricky (so it's no wonder that they aren't set correctly... this is one 
of the last great arcane X issues to be resolved by the 4.0 release ;-)

But basically, you want to look in your XF86Config file (which is usually in 
/etc/X11) and find the "Modeline" lines. What you should have is a serious of 
settings for various resolutions (really, any resolutions you want to 
support). Here's what mine used to look like in X 3.3.6:

Modeline "1152x864"    135.00   1152 1456 1584 1760    864  864  876  908

Modeline "1024x768"     65.00   1024 1068 1212 1248    768  779  785  870 
-hsync -vsync

Modeline "800x600"      50.00    800  820  940 1068    600  601  607  622 
+hsync +vsync

Modeline "640x480"      31.50    640  652  716  840    480  481  484  500 
-hsync -vsync

Then you want to check and make sure that all resolutions you want to support 
are listed in your "Screen" section. Again, mine looked like this in X 3.3.6:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "Sam's Card"
    Monitor     "Sam's Monitor"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Now, figuring out your modelines is the real hard part, and I'd recommend 
taking a look at the "Video Timings Howto":
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.html

You might also want to try and learn how to use "xvidtune" (which should 
already be installed) which can allow you to tweak these settings and which 
spits out the modelines ready for you to insert into your XF86Config file.

However, if you update to X 4.0, you probably don't need to worry about all 
of this junk. X 4.0 is supposed to take care of this for you.

> IMHO perf or not (and at 500mhz perf is not an issue) windowed is
> better!

If your fullscreen mode was setup properly, and if your hardware is 
supported, you'd see a noticable difference in performance.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Wednesday 12 September 2001 10:11am, William Kendrick wrote:
> In light of the horrific WTC attack yesterday, I think that at this
> momemnt, it would be in bad taste to keep the game as-is.

I am sorry I haven't responded to this sooner. I have been reeling from the 
horrors of the last few days, and have not even touched my computer since 
Monday.

Tonight as I was trying to sleep (I'm an insomniac under "normal" 
conditions... and practically a zombie now, so forgive any typos) I actually 
realized this unfortunate connection between animation I drew and recent real 
world imagry.

> Sam, would it be possible for you to adjust the 'city' graphics to
> something, ermm... less disturbing?  The only thing that I can think of
> is, perhaps, Tux is defending some herring.  Perhaps a set of little sheds
> full of them.

I don't know what to do... I really don't.\

My wife had a great idea, that I think we may want to consider (I'd like 
everyone's thoughts on this).... 

My wife feels that it may be too soon after this horrible thing for us to 
decide. She feels that we may want to wait, giving ourselves a bit of time 
and hopefully some sense of closure before we make this decision. She seemed 
to think that the graphics are sufficiently cartoon-like that if it weren't 
for the proximity of such terrible historic events would not be of much 
concern. She asked if we felt the imagery was too disturbing a week ago. If 
we felt it was, then we would probably want to change it. If it didn't 
trouble us then, then we probably want to distance ourselves from this event 
before we make decisions such as this.

So what we may want to do is put this project on hold for a bit, and return 
to it sometime in the future, when we feel ready, and make the decision then.

If we do put it on hold, there are several other possible projects in the 
pipeline we could work on. There are many ECD (early childhood development) 
titles we've been talking about for a few months now, and we could work on 
them.

At any rate, I want to gauge everyone's thoughts on this. I really don't 
think I am in a proper state of mind to decide what to do..... Heck, one of 
my favorite games in the last couple of months (Twisted Metal Black for the 
PS2) has now become my least favorite (I can't even look at the box) because 
it has a final level that is now excruciating disturbing in light of what's 
happened. However, I feel that with time, I will be able to play the game 
again... And possibly with time, I wont feel ashamed I made the city 
animations for TuxMath that I did.

I will be back online tomorrow. I will be on the #tux4kids IRC at 
openprojects.net as soon as I get up (pssobliy 8-9am MST) and online if 
anyone wants to talk. We can also discuss it on this list (but please let's 
stay focused).

> (extremely disturbed by yesterday's events...
> I slept well last night, but am not doing very well now that I'm awake :^/
> )

I haven't done well atr all.

As many of you know, I have been unemployed for a while now... which means I 
have been home all day long everyday to watch the horrors unfold. And these 
things have taken over TV... you can't escape it... Tonight I would have sold 
my right arm just to watch a sitcom (something inane and light-hearted... 
something other than these live shots of the rubble!) I feel like I'm 
drowning in it.

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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] testers

[Calvin A. <cal...@ya...>]

St. Catherine
Westwood Elementary
Both of Cincinnati, Oh

Bill have we dedicated this work to anything?


--- William Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> I'd like to add info. on the playtesters to the credits screen.
> I know some folks (Greg and Calvin) are having teachers/students test
> it.  At the very least, it'd be nice to include the school names.
> 
> Please send 'em as you get 'em, and I'll add them to src/credits.c
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -bill!
> 
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[Tuxmath-devel] testers

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

I'd like to add info. on the playtesters to the credits screen.
I know some folks (Greg and Calvin) are having teachers/students test
it.  At the very least, it'd be nice to include the school names.

Please send 'em as you get 'em, and I'll add them to src/credits.c

Thanks!

-bill!