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DP.Challenge #2

modchip — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:46:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who tried/solved my DP.Challenge #1. Your solutions were so inspiring that I decided to create another one....(read more)

DP.Challenge #1

modchip — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:51:00 GMT

Welcome! I had nothing to do, so I decided to put up a very newbie challenge. Please read specifications....(read more)

Holy Mother of... It's Finally Here!

modchip — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:56:00 GMT

Hey, you've just won Mother 3!...(read more)

Norton Security 2009. But wait, there's more...

modchip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:35:00 GMT

Norton Security 2009. But wait, there's more......(read more)

Gamer Girl Friday: I Tried to do a Review!

modchip — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:49:00 GMT

Since its release last Fri, 16 May 2008 10:01 am, it gained a huge following. People from all over the world got excited... Read more....(read more)

Mega toolbar my...

modchip — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:16:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to download something, but you just found out that the file was hosted in MegaUpload (One example is from http://gewdlooks.multiply.com -- shameless plug) and sadly you're greeted with the no available slots message....(read more)

Retro: 2004MBit Competition

modchip — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Hell, I want one! :D...(read more)

Nothing Techie About this Post

modchip — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:59:00 GMT

Nothing techie here......(read more)

Yahoo! Messenger Beta 9

modchip — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:11:00 GMT

Have you guys tried the new beta of the famous instant messenger?...(read more)

Zipping Files Individually -- Pain in the ***!

modchip — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:10:00 GMT

Picture this, you have 9,999 .doc files. You decide to zip/rar it to save space. But you thought, "I want them individually archived so that I wouldn't have to open a huge zip/rar file just to find a file." But doing that could each up your time, doesn't it? Want a solution, read on!...(read more)

Maligayang Bati

modchip — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Sorry but I just can't help it....(read more)

Dark_AleX Strikes Back!

modchip — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:36:00 GMT

We thought DAX was retired. We thought M33 was the new king. We thought 3.71 was the last M33/DAX release....(read more)

M33 Going Bye Bye!

modchip — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:01:00 GMT

Regarding lamia's blog entry Dark_AleX Going Bye Bye ... hey, I think we've been had. Remember when Dark_AleX said "goodbye" -- another team called M33 emerged from the scene right? Now, rumors in circulation says that M33 is actually...(read more)

Round 'n Round We Go!

modchip — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:40:00 GMT

After a year I posted my rounding question in the forums, I finally got it working. Here's the original post I made; http://devpinoy.org/forums/t/915.aspx.

Just this morning, I had nothing to do, so I excavated some of my unsolved sources from my archive. Then I remembered this problem about rounding stuff in assembly. I thought, maybe it's time to solve this, so I did.

The original problem I had was I did not know how to round to a specified number of digits. For example, I have the value 3.1456825863, which I wanted to round to 3 decimal places like this 3.146. For my original code, it always outputs 3. Then it hit me! I already had this problem in flash before, the function Math.round does the same thing, but I already solved it there. So again, excavated the FLA project... and the rest was rounding history. So here's the code using the FPU.

01     .586
02
03     ...
04
05     .data
06     buffer   db    1024 dup(0)
07     fbuffer dq    0
08     pi        dq    3.14
09     rdigit    dq   10000.0
10
11     ...
12
13     .code
14
15     ...
16
17     invoke GetDlgItemText, hWin, IDC_EDIT_INPUT, addr buffer, SIZEOF buffer
18     invoke StrToFloat, addr buffer, addr fbuffer
19            fld         fbuffer
20            fmul      pi
21            fmul      rdigit
22            frndint
23            fdiv        rdigit
24            fstp       fbuffer
25     invoke FloatToStr2, fbuffer, addr buffer
26     invoke SetDlgItemText, hWin, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, addr buffer
27
28     ...
29
30     end start

The most important parts for this are lines 09, 21, 22, and 23. Line 09 (rdigit) is the one responsible for controlling the number of significant digits to be displayed, depending on the number of zeroes in it. Example, the input is 3.1456825863 and rdigit is 100.0, the output will be 3.15, since there are 2 zeroes in 100 (My code above will output 3.1457). Lines 21 to 23 simply means that Math.round(ST(0)*rdigit)/rdigit), which is responsible for doing the trick.

So there it is, I hope this helps anyone who will encounter this problem. Please feel free to comment if there are errors in this. I tested it with my scenarios and it worked like a charm, but who knows...

Creds goes out to cvega for the help I got with this piece. Thanks!

Spam Scam #2: Different Subject, Different Content

modchip — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:30:00 GMT

Another one of those. It's really fun analyzing these spams, so let's rave.

First of all, check out the subject, alright! Rod Stewart marries a model? Very catchy, who's the model?

But wait, what's that, it's addressed to a certain Zhirnov Stansislay. The surname is really cool, Is-tan-is-lay, hehehe. So it's not for me eh... but the address is my address? Oh well.

Then let's open up the mail (But I suggest that you don't for safety measures, I'm just doing this for fun). What the... :-o

Just having fun here! ;)

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