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Gregg
Will try to watch sometime Nick. Thanks for posting. All sounds good.
Endo
Thank you Nick, looks interesting.
Bo
NickA: WinXP! I'm not the only one still using it (on two computers)!
I also run:
- Win8 for my work office computer
- Win7 on one home media computer
- Android 4.4 on an ODROID running another home media computer
- Ubuntu 12.x on my laptop
- Ubuntu 14.x on an ODROID on my home file server, and
- Android 5.x on my phone. :-)
WiseGenius
Bo: I reacted to seeing that in the same way. I'm also running XP on 2 computers. I run many other OSes, including Win7, in a VM on one of them.
NickA
Yep, I still keep the Win98 install files on a thumb drive 'just in case' - and every piece of software I need still runs on it :)
Arnold, as soon as I get time, I'll put up a much more terse written tutorial with some additional example apps.  I just felt like sharing this thing because it's been useful.  With about an hour of play time, posting a video was just simpler to complete.

Arnold
Nick, I am just a bit  envious, wanting to make the small video of compiling my Xiangqi game, and finding out I have no time and place to make it., and here you come and do a video of over an hour :-)
Reichart
Arnold, I use Screen O Matic, it only allows    5 minutes (free verison) but I sort of like being forced to sum up talks in under 5 minutes.  
What I often do is write a simple script of bullet points.  Wear a headset, and do a dry run.  It forces me to hear and see the timing.
Then I reset, prepare windows and data so I can jump right to things, and just keep doing it over and over until I make no mistakes.  I usually can present something that is 3 minutes long in about 5-7 takes.
So, one hour all said.

Bo
I made a "selfie helmet" so I can record videos hands free. But nobody wants to be seen wearing it.
NickA
That video was made with Debut video capture software:  http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/   If you try it, encode to mp4 and turn up the video bit rate.  Even with a 2048 bit rate, that whole video was 120megs.
WiseGenius
szeng: Since they are symmetric, do the curley braces need to be escaped like that?
Reichart
Bo, a friend of mine that does a Podcast  does teh same thing, so that the Mic is always directly in front of him.
Yes, he looks like an Angler Fish.

Reichart
Arnold, cool, I will attempt to do this, but from a PC.
Arnold
I wrote the entire script, prepared how to find the sources. First a short run to remember how to it worked, (turns out Quicktime is the easiest for me) where I filmed myself instead of the screen. Next during the second short run I faced an internet connection problem that I solved by using Safari and let that connect. Then I cleared up the cache and did the whole video in one take. Showing the red-lang.org site and the github compilation info during compiling was a lucky shot.
Arnold
And after the second run I also did a soundcheck. Would be a nasty surprise if there was nothing to hear.
Arnold
The real thing that puzzles me is that I could make such a program using a PL that is in (pre-)alpha stage. I could not have done it using a well known language that is production ready for decades.

szeng
@WiseGeni Probably not. I didn't know that you don't have to escape brackets if they are symmetric. But I would probably just do it in case I might add some asymmetric brackets later
WiseGenius
You could always just escape those ones. :P Exciting progress you guys are making!
szeng
Uh, that's a neat trick. Thanks!
szeng
Updated
Bo
Arnold: Nice video! You did a nice job of laying out how to do the whole process from start to finish!

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