Apple open-sourced libdispatch

September 17, 2009

A quick note to point out that Apple recently open-sourced libdispatch, which is a library providing Grand Central Dispatch.

Here is Apple’s introduction to Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch, and the ars technica writeup on GCD.

Note that this isn’t the kernel or compiler support code. However, it will be interesting to see where it goes from here.


Wolfenstein 3D arrives on the iPhone

March 25, 2009

id Software has released an iPhone port of Wolfenstein 3D. Released on the MS-DOS platform in 1992, the game has 16 years of history and has been ported to a variety of platforms in the years since.

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