eric.toadscastle.net

eric.toadscastle.net
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Welcome to eric.toadscastle.net, the personal homepage of Eric Marcarell. Here you can find out a bit about me and my interests. This page was last modified on January 12, 2007.

Random Quote

The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots. -- P. Ginsparg

Websites

The websites I work on currently:

Toad's Castle: My current Mario fan site.
SMBhq: One of the best Mario sites - I work on the game idea section and answer questions to the mail bag.
Get Your IP: My IP Chicken competitor.
PicUp: My Image Shack competitor.

Some of my older sites:

Tanuki Tools: Tools for webmasters. (RIP 2006)
C Programming Central: My old programming site. (RIP 2005)
The Vengeful Genie: My short-lived online comic. (RIP 2006)
Thoro RPG: An online RPG. (RIP 2002)
The Home of Mario: My second Mario fan site (RIP 2003)
Programming Central: My attempt at a general programming site. (RIP 2003)
mIRC Script Land: A site covering mIRC scripting with tutorials and downloads. (RIP 2003)
Multimedia Fusion Land: A site with help and downloads for MMF. (RIP 2002)
Harry Potter RPG: An online RPG. (RIP 1999)
Zelda and Mario RPG: My first fan site. (RIP 2000)
Free Video Games: A site that hosted free games, including some made by me. (RIP 2002)
mIRC Script Land: A scripting help and download site. (RIP 2003)
History Info: A history questions site. (RIP 1999)

Programming

Some of the things I actually finished. I'm always looking for new ideas / challenges - contact me if you have some!

Projects under active developement or planning:

Besides some work on TC I have no current projects. Suggest something!

Projects that are either done or have had developement "paused":

Bitreen 2: A 2d platformer.
Rectangle War: A shoot em up.
cIRC: A GUI IRC client for Linux. Semi-old screen shot. (Developement currently halted)
platEn: The game engine for a 2D sidescrolling shooter like Commander Keen (unfinished)
Character Battles: A script for automatic voting in battles.
Super Simpletron: A simple computer simulator/emulator that started as a solution to programming challenge in a book. Instead of 100 memory locations it has a million, instead of entering programs every time, it loads the simpletron machine language file, and I've added string support and a few other things. Also included is a simple assembler for SML.
xSkIM: A Linux SkIM client. Since SkIM service was discontinued, I halted developement of this program in the middle of an update. If you decided to try it, this is still probably the most stable version.
FreePad: A Notepad-like editor for Windows.
Bitreen: A 2D platformer game for Linux and Windows. Also have most of a sequal done, but no plans to finish.
Paddle: My pong copy for Windows and Linux.
Blocked: A "falling block game" for Windows and Linux.
addbr: Adds BR tag to the beginning of each line in a file. Incredibly simple yet very useful for long submissions.
addlink: Let users automaticly add links to your site. Still needs work before it can be used on a real site.
Hexview: My simple hex viewer.
Solutions to programming challenges: 3n+1 Problem

Art

View some of my paintings here.

Photos

Future collections will be posted on my gallery page for easier viewing. Most of these existing collections will be moved there eventually.

Writing

The List: A short story.
The Secret Order of the Slingshot: A play.
The Robbery: A one scene play.
A Trip to the Zoo: A play.
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A poem.
The Mouse: A short story.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the Myth of National Security
A Look at the Evening News
The Anonymous Gift: A short story.
Ian's Thanksgiving: A short story.
The Return of 2D Platformers
Portable Super Mario RPG: A Cause Worth Fighting For?
Miyamoto: The Man Behind Mario
Apple Picking: A poem about a childhood memory.
The Highest Branch: A poem about nature.
The Fort: A poem about a "fort" in the woods.
The Hidden Room: A list poem about a hidden room.

Cooking

Reading

Send me your suggestions.

My five favorite books:

1984 by George Orwell
Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You can see a somewhat complete list of the books I own here.

My favorite magazines:

Reason
Nintendo Power

Politics

I am a minarchist libertarian who supports minimal government in all areas.

Contact

You are welcome to contact me for any reason except spam, unless you are an annoying idiot.

Email: eric@toadscastle.net
AIM: eam1187
YIM: e_a_m11
MSN: eric@toadscastle.net
On the TC forum: supertoad