August 20, 2006
I haven't really progressed much since my last post due to lack of time. However I have done some stuff. I've hooked up a composite video connector so I can display stuff on my TV, connected a SNES pad I got off eBay (decided I didn't need the ps/2 connector for a keyboard, I may add one at a lat…
July 22, 2006
So I've decided to build my own console of a sort. Originally I was going to buy a Spartan-3E starter kit and do something with an FPGA however Xilinx won't sell me one due to EU regulations about hazardous materials in electronics. So I've gone and bought a Propeller chip instead. It's an 8-co…
December 18, 2005
Well the December 2005 update to the DX SDK came out a few days ago, and you're probably aware it came with a preview of D3D 10 which will run on Vista using the reference device (no actual hw is available yet unfortunately). D3D 10 is quite a big change from D3D 9, the entire API has been revampe…
November 19, 2005
Recently I've been thinking about visual programming languages, or rather how to get away from doing programming using just a load of plain text files.
Computers are all about abstraction, you can take a computer at look at it from many levels of abstraction, right now I'm typing in open office whi…
Computers are all about abstraction, you can take a computer at look at it from many levels of abstraction, right now I'm typing in open office whi…
October 06, 2005
Well I haven't written anything in this journal for several months and seeing as I'm paying for GDNet+ I may as well start using it [grin].
I've just started doing computer science at Cambridge university (Fitzwilliam college) which has been good so far, though I've only had one day of lectures so I…
I've just started doing computer science at Cambridge university (Fitzwilliam college) which has been good so far, though I've only had one day of lectures so I…
December 31, 2004
Well I finally got round to seeing The Incredibles a few days ago and I thought it was a (dare I say it) incredible film. It's rather different from Pixar's previous work (think James Bond rather than finding Nemo) and my favourite Pixar film to date. Technically it's got some really nice stuff i…
December 12, 2004
Well the Full HL2 SDK came out just under two weeks ago so I've started doing the coding for the HL2 mod I'm working on Valandil which is comming on rather slowly mainly due to my unfamiliarity with the HL2 SDK codebase which could really do with some better documentation and commenting. Valve hav…
September 19, 2004
Well it's been ages since I've written anything in here, mainly because I've had nothing to write about [smile] now I'm back at school I've got loads of work and less time to spend on other things. Anyways here's a nice screenshot of the editor for my 2D RPG engine (alluded to in my first journal …
August 24, 2004
Well due to my continual slacking I haven't really done that much since I last posted here [smile]. I've had a go at making a journal template which I don't think looks too bad. I'll probably change it sometime soon though.
I tried out the Rome: Total War demo today, it's pretty good fun. It look…
I tried out the Rome: Total War demo today, it's pretty good fun. It look…
August 14, 2004
Well today I've been doing some work on a C++ GUI library I'm writing. I ended up spending several hours trying to fix a bug and as always when I spend a long time trying to fix a bug the solution is stupidly easy (in this case I forgot GL textures had to have dimensions that were a power of two[g…
August 11, 2004
Well I've just got GDNet+ so I guess I better start using my Journal [smile]
Well currently I'm doing far too many projects. The first one, which is actually going somewhere, is an HL2 Mod Valandil which I'm the lead coder on (or at least will be when the HL2 SDK is out). Valandil is a medieval-th…
Well currently I'm doing far too many projects. The first one, which is actually going somewhere, is an HL2 Mod Valandil which I'm the lead coder on (or at least will be when the HL2 SDK is out). Valandil is a medieval-th…
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