More #Scala on #PS2 updates.

This time I wrote an InterIm backend for AthenaEnv.

I also had to work a bit on InterIm's performance to get it to work, as I can't really use Doubles and my text layout algorithm was a bit inneficient. The frame rate still gets a bit choppy when there's a ton of text on screen, but it kind of works.

To test the whole thing, I ported my Quiz game example. This part was quite easy - just had to replace the HTTP calls with hard coded questions/answers and reimplement the RNG (I'm still not sure why scala.util.Random doesn't work... I suspect it's something related to Long math).

However, after testing this for so long on PCSX2, I was quite shocked on how bad things looked on real hardware. I know I'm using a crappy €20 HDMI converter instead of a propper upscaler, but god damn, the text is pretty much unreadable.

Something to keep in mind in the future, I guess.

Lately I've been playing around with getting #Scala to run on my #PS2 (using Scala.js and AthenaEnv, no Scala Native... yet).

I finally got the Minart snake example to run on real hardware with minor modifications to the code (uncap the FPS and read the input from the gamepad).

It does run quite poorly, and it seems to crash if I get an apple, but it's a start, and good enough for a video.

I do have some ideas on how to improve the performance, but it will require a non-trivial amount of work, so I need to build up the courage first.