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May 02, 2000
Workin' on 'Shared' now.
Shared is a base class (probably better described as a pattern) that I came up with quite a while ago for the 'new' games (eventually released as the Cosmi game pack). They were originally designed as a friendly abstraction for networked games, but it turns out that they wer…
Shared is a base class (probably better described as a pattern) that I came up with quite a while ago for the 'new' games (eventually released as the Cosmi game pack). They were originally designed as a friendly abstraction for networked games, but it turns out that they wer…
April 26, 2000
Sorry about the lack of updates. Been doing other stuff.
Following up on my news-post a few days ago, you can order the CD with the free CE developer tools here. The tools are free, but it's $7.50 for S&H.
If you don't wanna pay for the S&H, you'll be able to download it for free eventually. …
Following up on my news-post a few days ago, you can order the CD with the free CE developer tools here. The tools are free, but it's $7.50 for S&H.
If you don't wanna pay for the S&H, you'll be able to download it for free eventually. …
April 13, 2000
Just a note that my wife, the lovely and talented Civilgrrl, has finally made some long-awaited updates to her engineering diary.
If you ever wondered what programmer technobabble sounded like to ordinary people, it's worth a read just to see some hardcore civil engineer technobabble.
Welcome to my w…
If you ever wondered what programmer technobabble sounded like to ordinary people, it's worth a read just to see some hardcore civil engineer technobabble.
Welcome to my w…
April 11, 2000
OK, it appears that some busybody gossip sites are doing more rumor-mongering. Lemme make another official announcement:
*ahem*
Richard Garriot is not hiring on with The Code Zone. He is not planning to put together a collection of small-format persistent-world games. He is not planning a new product…
*ahem*
Richard Garriot is not hiring on with The Code Zone. He is not planning to put together a collection of small-format persistent-world games. He is not planning a new product…
April 09, 2000
The rumors are not true.
Richard Garriot is not hiring on with The Code Zone as head of the design team for small-format games.
Stop calling me.
Richard Garriot is not hiring on with The Code Zone as head of the design team for small-format games.
Stop calling me.
April 08, 2000
Saw it in the theater a while back. Rented it this week. Thought it bore mention. . .
Lessons I learned from The Phantom Menace
Lessons I learned from The Phantom Menace
- If your method of transportation has lost power, no matter how badly damaged it is, you can get it working again by twisting two wires together or pressing a sequence of but…
April 05, 2000
OK, in the spirit of everyone else posting their "developer desktop" pictures, here's mine. I didn't do anything to "sweeten" the picture. This is pretty-much what my world looks like. Here's a description of what's on the screen. . .
- That little start-menu that's hanging in the middle of the screen…
April 04, 2000
Howdy howdy. Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I was spending the weekend in fabulous Lost Wages with a couple of friends who were getting married. We had a great time, but it's one of those things I can't do too often. Hiking for miles, 99-cent shrimp cocktails, and free beer does take its to…
March 27, 2000
A couple of people asked me about the new "rewrite" of Windows CE that's just around the corner. I pretty-much figured all along that it was just gonna be a redesign of the UI and not really a ground-up rewrite of the OS itself.
Bits and pieces of stuff I'd heard seemed to be bearing that out. Final…
Bits and pieces of stuff I'd heard seemed to be bearing that out. Final…
March 24, 2000
Found another good book. It's a bit tough to get, but it's worth it. This one is Dice Games Properly Explained by uberdesigner Reiner Knizia. It's basically broken into two sections, games of pure luck and games of skill. Between the two sections is a section on dice theory. This book, though, is a…
March 23, 2000
I'm happy. I got all of my cool library working as a DLL. That oughta prune the size of the individual games down quite a bit. Only major pain is that I had to get rid of a lot of my C++ templates, as they don't work with DLL's :-(
Shelly says that I'm generally much more pleasant when I'm working o…
Shelly says that I'm generally much more pleasant when I'm working o…
March 20, 2000
Wow
First thing this morning, I got a knock at my door. Standing there was the Airborne Express girl who picked up my laptop, holding a familiar-looking box. In it was the z50 I sent off, only with a new motherboard.
I repeat, wow.
I only wonder how fast it would've been if it hadn't been over a weeke…
First thing this morning, I got a knock at my door. Standing there was the Airborne Express girl who picked up my laptop, holding a familiar-looking box. In it was the z50 I sent off, only with a new motherboard.
I repeat, wow.
I only wonder how fast it would've been if it hadn't been over a weeke…
March 18, 2000
Got another photo. While at the GDC, I also poked fun at the fact that Mason's "game over" bitmap was the skull from the Windows Wingdings font. Here's my own particular interpretation of the Wingdings skull on my rocket, the Perfesser Fate II. . .
I flew this a couple of months ago at North Texas H…
I flew this a couple of months ago at North Texas H…
March 17, 2000
Great big kudos to IBM's hardware support.
As you recall, a few days ago my z50's screen stopped working. Well, last night I finally got around to calling the tech support number in the manual. The operator was able to determine that my machine was under warranty from the serial number, and got my p…
As you recall, a few days ago my z50's screen stopped working. Well, last night I finally got around to calling the tech support number in the manual. The operator was able to determine that my machine was under warranty from the serial number, and got my p…
March 16, 2000
I saw an interesting movie the other day. It was an old Corman film from 1963, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. It was campy, creepy, and thoroughly entertaining. It was also made for $100,000, half of which reportedly went to the star, Ray Milland.
After watching it, I realized something. Even trans…
After watching it, I realized something. Even trans…
March 15, 2000
My pal Bryan's working with me on the 3D rotation bit. He's a 3D kinda guy, so I figure he can cure all my ills.
Gotta add another "Ugly" to my GDC list. . .
Those little business-card sized CD's that hold about 40 meg. Several places were giving 'em away with demos. I asked the guy at the Diskmaker…
Gotta add another "Ugly" to my GDC list. . .
Those little business-card sized CD's that hold about 40 meg. Several places were giving 'em away with demos. I asked the guy at the Diskmaker…
March 14, 2000
I'm finally recovered from the GDC. Just trying to wrap up a couple of projects here.
FWIW, I'm really not trying to be down on the other GameDev.net guys for the lack of coverage. I was just hoping that we could do better. Personally, I knew we had a problem when my pal Bryan sent me an email askin…
FWIW, I'm really not trying to be down on the other GameDev.net guys for the lack of coverage. I was just hoping that we could do better. Personally, I knew we had a problem when my pal Bryan sent me an email askin…
March 13, 2000
Well, I'm back. If you haven't seen my GDC handiwork, check it out here and here. Yes, I know that the interview with MathEngine was awfully short. I just wanted to give the readers a quickie overview of what MathEngine was, not really an in-depth discussion of how it worked.
Since I did it last yea…
Since I did it last yea…
March 06, 2000
Just going over my last-minute to-do items before the GDC. I've got skeletons of all of the pages written up. I've got the z50 dialing in to my local account, so Shelly can post updates as I email 'em to her. I've got everything done but printing business cards, and I'm about to get to that. I even…
March 02, 2000
Well, just because I'm a complete wannabe who lives vicariously through his college-pal Bryan, I wrote my own The Bench strips.
They're here and here.
They're here and here.
March 01, 2000
After a couple of delays, our Dilberitos finally showed up. Here's a review.
General:
Size - Smaller than an average Taco Bell burrito, but larger than an egg roll. They're quite filling, though. One of 'em with a soda would make a reasonable meal.
Consistency - Not very burrito-ish. Lots of whole bea…
General:
Size - Smaller than an average Taco Bell burrito, but larger than an egg roll. They're quite filling, though. One of 'em with a soda would make a reasonable meal.
Consistency - Not very burrito-ish. Lots of whole bea…
February 29, 2000
Well, since Geoff decided to show off his new cards, I figured I'd show off mine too. Since I go through about 20 business cards a year, I'm not screwing with a printer. I'm just printing 'em here on Avery business card sheets. Performated edges be damned.
Card Front
Card Back. I just thought it was …
Card Front
Card Back. I just thought it was …
February 28, 2000
There's an interesting article about Cosmi, my new publisher, here.
It doesn't surprise me that a discount publisher can do so well. Expert was in a position to do even better a few years ago, but they decided that they wanted to be a top-shelf publisher and got caught up with giant money-losers lik…
It doesn't surprise me that a discount publisher can do so well. Expert was in a position to do even better a few years ago, but they decided that they wanted to be a top-shelf publisher and got caught up with giant money-losers lik…
February 22, 2000
My IBM z50 just arrived, and it is seriously cool!
For the uninitiated, the IBM z50 was IBM's first (and probably last) Windows CE device. Going against the other palm-clones and baby laptops out there, the z50 was almost a full-size laptop. It had a very nice screen, a good keyboard, and still coul…
For the uninitiated, the IBM z50 was IBM's first (and probably last) Windows CE device. Going against the other palm-clones and baby laptops out there, the z50 was almost a full-size laptop. It had a very nice screen, a good keyboard, and still coul…
February 21, 2000
In a last-ditch attempt to be trendy, Shelly and I invested in some Dilberitos.
For the uninitiated, Dilberitos are a harebrained idea by Scott Adams. He was worried about those poor geeks out there who were living in their cubicles and surviving on Ramen noodles, so he took some of the money he mad…
For the uninitiated, Dilberitos are a harebrained idea by Scott Adams. He was worried about those poor geeks out there who were living in their cubicles and surviving on Ramen noodles, so he took some of the money he mad…
February 18, 2000
Ya know, nobody's made a fan-site for my games yet.
How does http://www.planettopfiftyblazingwindows95games.com sound?
:)
Got the 2000 bugs squashed. . .I think. I'll probably be playtesting today to make sure.
I'm looking at several patch programs so I can distribute a fix. Current favorites are Fund…
How does http://www.planettopfiftyblazingwindows95games.com sound?
:)
Got the 2000 bugs squashed. . .I think. I'll probably be playtesting today to make sure.
I'm looking at several patch programs so I can distribute a fix. Current favorites are Fund…
February 15, 2000
Sorry about the lack of updates. Looks like Windows 2k broke my games. I'm currently humping it to squash the bugs.
I've already stomped one bug. In one function, I'm passing a reference to a pointer. Unfortunately, what gets back is not my an updated pointer, but a pointer to random memory. Worked …
I've already stomped one bug. In one function, I'm passing a reference to a pointer. Unfortunately, what gets back is not my an updated pointer, but a pointer to random memory. Worked …
February 07, 2000
My comp copy of Win2k pro just arrived. I guess I've got a week to brag that I've got a copy and you don't :)
Found an interesting article on the internet. A guy in C++ Report managed to build a pretty robust persistance engine into about 300 lines of code. You can read the article and download the…
Found an interesting article on the internet. A guy in C++ Report managed to build a pretty robust persistance engine into about 300 lines of code. You can read the article and download the…
February 05, 2000
Got another good game recommendation. This one's Lord of the Fries, and it's by the same folks who came up with Give Me The Brain that I mentioned earlier. My wife and I have been playing this one with some friends for the past couple of weekends, and it's a real winner. It's got a bit more strateg…
February 04, 2000
Quick note. Still on the bookshelf-clearing frenzy, I've put a set of three good programming books out on eBay here. If you're just starting out with C++, this is honestly a good way to start out cheaply. I also put out an old copy of How to Copyright Software out here. It's a bit long in the tooth…
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