Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why!?

I have been trying, for some seven years now, to get into this technically advanced and totally impressive and Free new operating system, without success. I made my first real attempt in 2004, when I installed Fedora Core 4 on my then-laptop, a cheapo Presario that stole 1/8th of my RAM and God knows how much of my memory bandwidth for the video.

I fiddled around with it for a while but never accomplished much and didn't enjoy it....

During 1987 I have developed a script language to code music for the Amiga.

The project was called Musicode. My idea was to create something similar to a “Basic” like programming language, which will focus in music. The Amiga was known by it’s ability to play polyphonic sound, based on 4 seperate tracks (which was a lot these days…). At that time I was involved in computers and music projects, such as music based on random numbers or representing digital artwork as music.
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Today it is quite obvious to most of the computer users to open a word processor or a text editor and be able to perform various tasks such as inserting / editing text with different fonts, colors and styles, and combine them with graphics, photos, etc.

When I started working on Rashumon, nothing of these functionalities were available, not as part of the operating system level and not...

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Today i abandoned sdl.
Now i'm on cairo way.
I'm going mad. But it's fun to go mad discovering scancodes...