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Up until now, NPS has been a Windows-only application. But thanks to the Mono framework, this very well may change.

Mono, which is more or less a drop-in replacement for the Microsoft .NET Framework, allows .NET applications to run on all sorts of platforms – from x86 Windows to PowerPC Macs. I've known about it for a long time, but it wasn't until a few days ago that I seriously tried getting NPS to run on it. And it worked after several hours of "hacking" and rewriting code I hadn't tou [...]

Well, it's finally here... NPS codename Obsidian, Alpha 2.

This version should have been released months ago, but I ran into various problems and ended up not having enough time to complete it. But that's all in the past now. Alpha 2 is available, and it's just waiting for you to click that "download" button.

Alpha 2 finally fixes that nasty half-pixel offset bug, among other things; its most notable improvements are the brand-new welcome screen, the beginnings of a new help system, Ob [...]

NPS Obsidian Alpha 1 represents the culmination of several weeks of work on the existing Milestone 3 code. This release is not yet feature-complete, but it has most of the features used on an everyday basis – zoom, pencil and brush, resizing functionality, and filters.

Please download Milestone 3 here.

NPS codename Obsidian, Milestone 3, was released today. Milestone 3 shares the same UI appearance as Milestone 2, but also boasts more features. Most toolbox items are now at least partially functional, including rectangular selection, brushes, shapes, airbrush, zoom, and flood fill.

The NPS Color Picker dialog in NPS 3.0 will follow the tradition from early versions of NPS in its general appearance, though its look will be updated. More color selectors will be added, potentially including a Ph [...]

NPS codename Obsidian, Milestone 1, was released today. The Milestone 1 release (version 3.0.15, build 253) is a fairly significant step in the history of NPS, as this is the first build from the Obsidian codebase to be released to the public. The Obsidian codebase is written from scratch using VB.NET (VB 2008), and does not contain any code from the RatTamer-Lagoon codebase (which is written in VB6).

The user interface in Milestone 1 is more or less functional, and a few tools (specifically th [...]

For the past month, I have either been busy with school, or busy with something else, and I more or less neglected to post anything on my blog. But here it is... the long-awaited February blog post.

If you haven't already noticed, I've added a few things to my website. Most notably, Computer Bloopers. I have been collecting somewhat humorous computer-related incidents that I have experienced for several years now, and am now putting some of them onli [...]