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at long last, I am pleased to announce the "touchHLE app compatibility database"!

https://appdb.touchhle.org/

instead of a manually curated "app compatibility list", there's now a database that anyone can contribute to. if you find an iPhone OS 2.x app that works, you can add it!

some notes:

• all reports are moderated before they become public
• as a precautionary measure, you can't submit a new report if your previous report hasn't been approved yet. I know this is annoying, sorry. I may adjust this down the road if all goes well.
• you can upload screenshots! yay
• please bear in mind that it's more useful to know about working apps than broken ones, and you should only test apps that have a chance of working (iOS 2 apps)

btw, I wrote the web app over the last 10 days and it's open source ^^ https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/app-compatibility-db

on an instance with broken federation, nobody can hear you scream

i have no working fediverse instance and i must scream

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME (suffering from federation problems again)

so uh, I should probably make microblog accounts for touchHLE already. I already run my own fediverse instance, but it's enough of a hassle to host my own posts, I don't want to host the touchHLE Brand Account™'s as well.

so uhh… are there any emulation-themed or emulation-friendly instances you could recommend?

so, a friend has been trying to learn to program for the past year and a half or so, by doing coding puzzles. I've helped her a bit! when she wanted a bigger project, she started writing QR code generator entirely from scratch, in Rust, which is incredibly tricky. and look!! 😭

https://twitter.com/cirkelnio/status/1711445213460173043

you have no idea how excited i am that a version of touchHLE can run Rayman 2. i loved that game as a kid, it feels like an incredible honour

https://twitter.com/ciciplusplus/status/1711106534925582769

I'm one of those people who is technically skilled in a non-artistic discipline, but hasn't developed enough skills in more traditionally artistic things, despite having a deep love of art. I'm sure it's a tale as old as time. It defines a lot of my life choices…

i have decided that i must learn dutch because [ɣ] is simply too much fun to pronounce

touchHLE status update, not prompted by anything in particular: I've spent most of my time the past week working on the new application compatibility database, that will replace the current manually maintained list of supported apps. I'm hoping to put it live in a few days.