I’m sorry.
I thought the Wii was supposed to be region free. (It isn’t - Doh!)
I know you trusted me and ordered your US version of Paper Mario because it was agonising to have to wait until November 2007 for the UK version!
I know you didn’t check for compatabilty because you believed your dumb husband [...]
Filed under: ramblings | No Comments »
Nice image, follow the jump for more; from Edwin Tofslie’s blog:
“A great visual I created to show the evolution of most all Apple products created over the past 30 years. This was created to show the evolution of the form factor and industrial design of the products, not to show every single model or upgrade [...]
Filed under: mac | 2 Comments »
Okay, so this isn’t a new notion [link] [link] and it depends on how you interpret it [link] and some Wag will let you vote on the issue, but n seems quite small at the moment [link].
But from the point of view of its verbosity then Java is dreadful and has become worse in the [...]
Filed under: Java, rants | No Comments »
The very fact that this boilerplate code was needed forked a rant [link]. Regardless, I have been away from Java for a little while now and getting an applet up and running, particularly one taking advantage of Swing compononents, is more complex and, sadly, more verbose than it used to be.
As The Java Tutorials explain [...]
Filed under: Java, game framework | No Comments »
Apple Insider has some depressing news about the imminent demise of the mac-mini. [link]
I can understand the business model behind the decision but without the mac-mini I, like many others, would never have ‘made the switch’.
If it had not existed I would not have then gone on to buy 2 mac books and be [...]
Filed under: mac | No Comments »
[Buff Dis @flickr]
Filed under: art/graffiti, music | No Comments »
This blog and flash game site is superb [guimp.com] it all takes place inside a tiny 21 x 21 pixel square.
Get close to the screen for this pixel sized flash pac-man game [link]
I love the pong game too [link]
Filed under: game, reviews | 1 Comment »
I have just taken a break from playingViva Piñata after over 8 hours! This game was such a surprise. I have picked it up and put it down so many times at the game store. It looked like it had potential for eye candy but seemed to be to ‘kid’ orientated and so the game [...]
Filed under: game, reviews, xbox 360 | No Comments »
With the impending completion of a major piece of work, and some long overdue free time, thoughts return to Java game programming fun. One of the major decisions is how to update the screen and where to do it.
An event driven screen refresh would suit a card or board game scenario whilst arcade genre [...]
Filed under: Java, game framework, specification | No Comments »