After downloading and burning VS2008 express SP1 to a DVD (it's only 750+ MBs, what a waste of space!), I made an image of the internal 8GB drive to revert to the previous configuration in case something went wrong.
I wasn't able to install VS2008 to my second drive (16GB SDHC), since the operation isn't supported on removable drives. It seems there's a way to force the additional storage to be seen as a permanent disk, but this applies to the EEE and needs a device driver change. I went for drive C.
As for DirectX, I picked up August 2008 SDK (which is the one I use in my notebook) and installed with minimum components.
VS2008 works reasonably well (as expected, compilation times aren't that great.. I suppose the SD is the bottleneck), starts quite fast but it takes some time to close.
I suggest to disable intellisense, there are a couple of methods for removing it.
Change the dll filename located at:
or disable it via macros.
The little baby still works and I can compile/run a a simple piece of network code.
I've been busy at work, but last weekend I took the code for 4kb intros and tried to furtherly optimize it. The exe now is 27 bytes smaller and runs everywhere, while the older one had a lot of compatibility issues.
Speaking about work, hopefully I will be able to release new screenshots later this month. This should include an IOTD submission on gamedev.
I need to write a small framework for testing stuff, and I'd like it to work an AA1.
I'm going to use it for a tiny project which should come with documentation about design choices and implementation details. I could use this blog to comment my work daily, so when it's done I'll just have to copy-n-paste my blog entries.
I hope I'm going to update this blog more often. :)
