[Fluxus] port abuse

Mon Aug 23 07:30:33 PDT 2010

Ha!  Great idea.  I like that idea, it's very immediate and playful.

Best
Evan

On 23 Aug 2010, at 12:03, Kassen wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> I made some progress in my quest to make errors more like the "boss warnings" in scrolling shooters (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-iy8507js ) 
> By creating a port and registering it as the "current-error-port" I got the error texts for this;
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/41408203@N02/4919131771/
> 
> This took a lot of trial and error, because both (build-text) and (build-type) lack a means of dealing with hard-returns and the normal (display) way of dealing with port messages makes those hard to notice. Oh, well, it works now (mostly, when there aren't any accidental loops between ports that freeze the whole computer...).
> 
> Just wanted to share my excitement,
> Kas.

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