ABox242 Download

[Andy Turner]

ABox242 is available here: http://sites.google.com/site/analogbox2/download

Download the abox242.zip file, unpack, have fun!

[Keith Blackwell]

On 5/7/2014 1:58 PM, Andy Turner wrote:
> ABox242 is available here: http://sites.google.com/site/analogbox2/download

BTW, I've noticed lately a freeze-up that is relatively repeatable,
which occurs when I switch from one circuit to another while it is playing.
Never noticed it before, but that's no guarantee that it's a new problem.

--
Keith W. Blackwell

[Andy Turner]

Just checked and it froze up exactly once, then started working
correctly .... frustrating. Naturally I blame Win 7, which I barely
understand. Would dearly like to develop on a different OS.

Spent a couple weeks exploring CLang / LLVM, as well as MS CL64 /
ML64, dabbled in JWasm, and re-discovered SSE / AVX C intrinsics ...
the goal is to specify ABox objects with a DSL description and have a
compiler do the bulk of the optimization ... heavy stuff, lots of
acronyms, language design, compiler front ends ... maybe I could
start a wiki thread on the code site if anyone is interested.

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[Lorne Covington]

GPU? I have a lot of code that does processing of point-cloud data from
depth cameras (like Kinects), and I just started moving it to the GPU.
Went from being able to process 1,000 XYZ points @ 60fps on an i7-3.5GHz
to 10,000 @ 120fps, same code, 20x speedup, and there's more code in the
pipeline to convert. In my case I'm using DirectX-11 compute shaders,
but there's CUDA and more cross-platform solutions like OpenCL. Just
sayin'.

Thanks Andy for all your work!

- Lorne

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[Keith Blackwell]

On 5/24/2014 6:18 PM, Andy Turner wrote:
> ... heavy stuff, lots of
> acronyms, language design, compiler front ends ...

What -- no C++ AMP?

:-)

BTW, the system I am seeing the freeze on is still Win XP. :-(

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[Andy Turner]

CUDA, Open CL, AMP -- all would make wonderful back-ends -- with so
many nodes, how hard do we have to work to keep them all busy ?

I'll put together some starter examples of what I'm considering for a
front-end language ...

Hmm, couldn't get ABox242 to freeze on Win XP, but I just launched
simple files. How long does the freeze last? Do you have to do
anything special to unfreeze it ?

[Keith Blackwell]

I've never waited more than, maybe, 20 seconds for it. SO I kill the process.
It might be related to the spanning tree (?) issue I raised earlier -- some
of the circuits I've been messing with lately will kind of go out to lunch for
a half a minute or two minutes if you move a connection. But this *seems* to
be different, though I can't say why at the moment. Maybe they're the same?

BTW: You might also consider Faust as another translation option. Or something
like it.

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[Andy Turner]

I'll keep an eye out for slow downs when a file starts.

Faust: neat ... but ... process = + ~ _;

<http://xkcd.com/1306/>
<http://xkcd.com/1319/>
<http://xkcd.com/1312/>

Other front ends I've considered are PSPice -- too sparse
and Verilog --- hmmm interesting

[John Paul Burtell]

Anyone else have a problem with ABox 2.42 disappearing completely from their computers? I'm on Windows 7 and this is the first time I have seen anything like it. I went to run the program and I got an error message saying that Windows cannot find the .exe, the application then disappeared from the computer altogether.

What's even stranger is that when I downloaded the .zip file to put it back on my computer, the "unzipped" folder is empty - although I see the app if I click on the zipped folded. I event tried to transfer it from a flash drive to the computer and the same thing happened.

I have a gut feeling it's a virus (nothing contracted from the ABox site, of course). I only figured I would mention it here because ABox 2.42 is the only program or file that this has occurred with so far.

[Andy Turner]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:58:18 AM UTC-7, John Paul Burtell wrote:

Anyone else have a problem with ABox 2.42 disappearing completely from their computers? I'm on Windows 7 and this is the first time I have seen anything like it. I went to run the program and I got an error message saying that Windows cannot find the .exe, the application then disappeared from the computer altogether.

At least one other user has reported anti-virus software complaints against ABox242.

I checked the downloadable ABox242.exe in a disassembler: nothing out of the ordinary. So it must be a false positive. It's not the first time that has happened. I'm not certain what to do about the issue ...

... I guess small, self-contained, personally created software is no longer welcome ... ha ha fine, I'll just take my toys and go play somewhere else :-)

--A

[Sevendy]

ABox 2.42 is the first version that doesn't trigger Windows 7 DEP--any connection?

[Andy Turner]

I guess it's possible that the fix for the DEP issue could raise
alarms ... but I shudder to think of the deep level hooks that
anti-virus software would have to impose in order to detect it.

... after some messing about at virustotal dot com, where ABox242 did
indeed frighten a few of the 53 scanners, I _may_ have fixed the virus
detect issue ... all I did was rebuild the app, which (hopefully)
gives it enough of a different signature that it doesn't alarm the
anti-virus robots. Or in other words, I wiggled my fingers and mumbled
to the overworked security droid, "These aren't the bits that you're
looking for ... "

See if the new version
<https://sites.google.com/site/analogbox2/download/abox242.zip> works
for you.

Also, not to worry, the Google site for ABox will stay here until
Google decides to erase it :-)

--A

[Sevendy]

I saw that Virustotal reported no detections for the previous scan, but when I rescanned it, now "Qihoo-360" is reporting a positive for "HEUR/Malware.QVM20.Gen".  For what it's worth, I added Abox242 to the EMET apps, and it runs fine.

[Andy Turner]

Ya, I think the virus scanners are being deceitful. I just compared
the recent as of a few minutes ago download file (supposedly dirty)
with the one I uploaded several hours ago (supposedly clean) and
they're byte for byte identical. There are also conflicting reports
from the same AV software (mcafee in this case) on exactly which
Trojan is being detected. Moreover, searching the online mcafee threat
list for the exact name reported by mcafee reveals no hits. ... so the
AV software is reporting a threat that it knows nothing about? Arghh!
Many negative adjectives come to mind :-)

In any event, I'm glad people finding work-arounds for this issue.
--A

[Lorne Covington]

Solution: Don't use Macafee, it's bloatware. ClamWin is free, and
Malwarebytes has an excellent free scanner. Both of those say 242 is clean.

Cheers!

- Lorne


http://noirflux.com

[John Paul Burtell]

Thanks for all of the effort and information everyone. I decided to go with ClamWin as Lorne suggested (I had Avast! which I have heard others users having issues with). All seems to be fine now.

Thanks again!

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