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BGBTech: The Status Update

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Software OpenGL Rasterizer + Quake 3 Arena

Software OpenGL Rasterizer + Quake 3 Arena

second test with Quake3 Arena, this time in 1440x900...differences from before:* More performance tweaks / micro-optimization;* Now the rasterizer...

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Software OpenGL Rasterizer + Quake 2

Software OpenGL Rasterizer + Quake 2

basically, lacking much better to do recently, I wrote a basic software rasterizer and put an OpenGL front-end on it, then proceeded to make Quake 2...

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misc: BTLZA (LZ77+Arithmetic), ...

misc: BTLZA (LZ77+Arithmetic), ...

recently threw together this thing:http://cr88192.dyndns.org:8080/wiki/index.php/BTLZAwhat is it?...basically, an extended form of Deflate, intended...

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misc: added more features for BTIC1C...

misc: added more features for BTIC1C...

well, the BTIC3A effort also kind of stalled out, mostly as the format turns out to be overly complex to implement (particularly on the encoder). I...

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misc: dungeon test...

misc: dungeon test...

basically, example here:essentially went and added basic procedurally generated dungeons and a new weapon (the "rocket shovel").the dungeons are...

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random: codec drivers, more testing...

random: codec drivers, more testing...

well, I had tried recently initially to write a VfW codec driver, but alas, it didn't work (initially).I had a little more success writing a VLC...

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random: blue-screen, video compositing, ...

random: blue-screen, video compositing, ...

so, off in this strange place known as the physical world, I recently set up a blue-screen.technically, it is just a blue bed sheet, as this is...

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random: video upsample and enhance...

random: video upsample and enhance...

well, this was another experiment... (possibly a waste of time, but oh well...).I had an idea for a tool idea to experiment with:a tool which will...

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new experimental video codec, BTIC1C...

new experimental video codec, BTIC1C...

[font='-moz-fixed']Reused text...[/font][font='-moz-fixed']Once again, it is a codec intended for quickly decoding into DXT for use in animated...

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Planets, and Apple Video...

Planets, and Apple Video...

Planets:I have decided to change my voxel engine from being an "infinite" 2D plane, to being a bounded 2D region, which I will assert as being a...

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complexity and effort-budget...

complexity and effort-budget...

idle thoughts here mostly:project complexity is not nearly so easily estimated as some people seem to think it is;time budget is, similarly, not...

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otherwise: new codec, BTAC 2A

otherwise: new codec, BTAC 2A

Some info available here:http://cr88192.dyndns.org:8080/wiki/index.php/BGBTech_Audio_Codec_2Athis is basically a codec I threw together over the past...

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