Thread: AMP v1.0 Worklog

lol... haha it got deleted too

Originally Posted by Biggles

Hi!

I'm getting together the parts for my car Mac. For CPU I have butchered an 933 MHz iBook G4 with a dead screen which I am now trying out together with a 7" touchscreen monitor.

However, I seem to be getting a fair share of application crashes with AMP while navigating it, playing songs and movies (there is a total of one song and one movie on the machine).

Are there known issues with AMP on PPC hardware or are there any general instability issues with AMP? Im running 10.4.8.

Cheers,

/Erik

Solved it! I thought that the iBook i butchered up for this mission was an iBook G4 but as it turns out is acutally is a G3.

After fetching the source and rebuilding with code generated for G3 instead of G4 AMP (or Kindling) seems as stable as can be.

btw was with "kindling"? Like what is the reasoning behind it, where it came from? To be honest I don't think it conveys what this awesome app can do. I duno, I can't really think of a better name so I guess I should not be complaining...

Originally Posted by Sharkbite86

btw was with "kindling"? Like what is the reasoning behind it, where it came from? To be honest I don't think it conveys what this awesome app can do. I duno, I can't really think of a better name so I guess I should not be complaining...

Well, AMP was always named by accident. If you remember, I started AMP just to get a bit of code out there for MacUsers to use for interfacing iTunes and CoreData. I needed a name for the project and just said "AMP" as an acronym for "Aychamo's Media Player." I guess it kinda stuck!

Kindling meant a bit to me. I really like words that have multiple meanings. Kindling can be the embers that help start a fire. Medically, it refers to the phenomenom in which a repeated stimulus doesn't need to be as intense to cause a seizure, etc. Also, it's the name of a really great song that I was into at the time. It also represents where I'm at in my life right now, at the start of a (hopefully!) long career.

I dunno. A rose by any other name is still a rose, right?

I think AMP is more recoginized by the community as short for Amplifier(to make larger or greater (as in amount, importance, or intensity) . Like a car amplifier that takes a small signal and makes it more intense, you are taking something small and making it worthwhile and amazing! I guess kindling is cool b/c is kinda has a background story and something more to tell.

Originally Posted by aychamo

Well, AMP was always named by accident. If you remember, I started AMP just to get a bit of code out there for MacUsers to use for interfacing iTunes and CoreData. I needed a name for the project and just said "AMP" as an acronym for "Aychamo's Media Player." I guess it kinda stuck!

Kindling meant a bit to me. I really like words that have multiple meanings. Kindling can be the embers that help start a fire. Medically, it refers to the phenomenom in which a repeated stimulus doesn't need to be as intense to cause a seizure, etc. Also, it's the name of a really great song that I was into at the time. It also represents where I'm at in my life right now, at the start of a (hopefully!) long career.

I dunno. A rose by any other name is still a rose, right?

Haha well thats cool. I can totally understand. You should put that on Kindling's website (when it's up) in like an about section or something so other people can understand ....

edit: HAHA wow I totally just had a thought... you should give it a sub-phrase like "Kindling, the mac car app that started a fire(! or . depending on the tone you want)" . Totally corny but I kind think its awesome :P hahahaha.

fantasticcccc....
bravo!!

Ill add that to another about section later but just for everyone to check out,

www.jakobmetzger.com/misc/sites/kindling/

Im still working on it but just wondering what everyone thought of it.

i like it jakob, very "this is an osx application" type of feel to the website. well done on the dock magnification in flash.

i know the site isn't live and is still in development, but were you going to add anymore features to that list, or are those the 4 features that are planned for the first release?

once again, good job.

-rep