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It feels like XSRDice is getting pretty close to feature complete. At least, I feel that the basic and advanced rollers are done. Although, if you have any comments on how something is handled, please feel free to file a bug report or just email me.

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Release Notes:

• Refactored code for improved readability and feature support
• Upgraded random number generator to the use of the Mersenne Twister
• Added support for rolling Edge and adding to the previous roll
• Added support for rerolling dice that didn’t score a hit
• Some layout changes to the UI

Another bugfix release. I did a little cleanup of the code, though not that you could tell. Fixed the bug where the Rule of Six checkbox on the Basic roller doesn’t turn off when you uncheck it. That should work properly now. Also, fixed Longshot Tests on the Advanced roller. Edge should work properly in all cases now on the Advanced roller.

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The next features I add in will be rerolling dice that didn’t score a hit and a way to add in Edge after the initial roll. It really should be part of this release, but I’m still working on some of the UI changes that will happen. I may be jumping the gun doing this release, so hopefully 0.3.4 will follow shortly.

If there are any more basic roll mechanics you’d like to see implemented in the program itself let me know.

Opposed and Extended Tests are next on the list to tackle.

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So, I’ve redone things yet again. I seem to let this sidetrack me quite a bit. Either way, there were some things I wanted to be able to do on the site and using the tools I was working with before have been a little too limiting for me.

The site is again running on WordPress and it should let me do quite a bit with regard to various things. I’ve brought over the posts from the tumblr blog I was using for update before, as well as restructuring some of the content.

In addition to the website changes, I’ve also decided to move all the code and file hosting over to GitHub. The source control, hosting options, and bug tracking should come in handy.

I think that about covers it for now. Hopefully I can concentrate on coding again now that I’ve got this out of my system.

Just released another minor bugfix update to XSRDice. This one fixes the issue of spawning multiple windows when the dock icon is clicked. Apparently that’s the default behavior of an NSPanel, which I had been playing around with using early on to see if I was going to go with the HUD-style window.

Seeing as I’ve decided against that awhile ago, it seemed that reverting back to a good old NSWindow would do the trick.

If you notice any more bugs, or have any feature requests please let me know.

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To start with, the PDF is beautiful. It may end up being my first hardcopy purchase of SR4, having gone the PDF route so far. The additional fiction, that I’ve read, has been great at painting a picture of the SR universe and bringing thing up-to-date from 3rd edition in some cases.

Going through the SR4A and prepping for a new game is getting me motivated to code again, Now to just make the time for it.

So, I did get around to purchasing Anathem, as mentioned previously, and I haven’t been able to put it down. So far, it seems like the Kindle app for iPhone is going to increase my reading back to levels it hasn’t been in years.

Highly recommended.

Now, if there were just some SR sourcebooks that were reformatted for iPhone…

Although I haven’t fully tested it yet, I think this is the ebook app for the iPhone that I’ve been waiting for. If you haven’t checked it out yet I highly recommend that you do.

It’s not a perfect app, but having the entire Kindle library available at Amazon’s reasonable ebook rates is hard to pass up.

I do believe that I might be able to catch up in my reading now. And a copy of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem should be easier to carry around now.

Decided to integrate a simple tumblr blog into the page. Should make it easier to keep the blog updated, yet simple at the same time.

Also, I’m pounding away again on some updates for XSRDice, so hopefully I can get that put together and another (mostly) bugfix release out. Maybe even get some additional features in there while I’m at it.

That’s all for now…