Earlier this year, around March, I purchased a brand new Toshiba Portege convertible, the one with the twisty screen. It works great for what I need it for, and it gets abused on a regular basis two and three times a day, thrown in a laptop bag, bounced off of restaurant tables and seats, and… Craving to get the rest of “Yet Another New Notebook?” Click this link!

So I just wrapped up the review of Macromedia Director MX for Game Developer magazine. To be honest, I was not kind. I was expecting great things. The last time I used Director was in the distant past when it was still version two. Read the review for more information. I’m also working my way… Click here to read the remainder of the article

I’ve been toying with the idea of re-installing my Windows XP on my notebook, it’s beginning to creak after a year of having software installed & un-installed and I don’t really relish the task, it means two whole days of downtime spent installing, configuring and tweaking to put it back to a usable state. I… Need to read the rest of “Another New Notebook?” Click here!

I am currently working on my fourth piece for Game Developer Magazine. You can find the current piece in this month’s issue and also on the Gamasutra website. I don’t know when the full 3,800 word article with data tables will be made available, currently only the shortened 950 word cut-down version has been published… Craving to read the rest of “More Game Developer Reviews?” Click on this link!

On Monday night, 24th February I attended an IGDA meeting at the Los Angeles Institute of Art. Tom Sloper, an ex-Activision, ex-colleague of mine; Jim Charne, another Activision alumni from the Atari 2600 days; and Jeff Lander who all graciously presented a “sneak preview” of the panels they will be hosting at Game Developer’s Conference… Click here to read the remainder of “Pre-GDC 2003 IGDA Meeting.”

I just junked the old 800MHz 512MB Sony VAIO PCG-FX215A with the ATI Rage Mobility M-1 graphics for a shiny new laptop. The new laptop is identical to the Alienware system but without the funky colour-scheme, though I’m thinking of getting this one sprayed bright yellow. This Alienware surrogate is a rather speedy Sager Ultra… Needing to get the remainder of “New Notebook?” Click the link!

A few months back I dropped my Palm IIIc on to concrete. An expensive slip of the hand unfortunately. I had done the same thing a half dozen times in the past with little effect but this time the Universe conspired against me and it shattered the LCD screen. The Palm Pilot still worked and… Continue reading the remainder of this article

I need to change that damn waving flag on the right hand side, and “Yes”, it is a real-time physics demo using spring tensors, drag and derived wind coefficients and it eats up all available CPU power. And freezes older versions of Netscape running on Linux so at least it’s good for something then. Back… Continue reading the remainder of this post

This is a brief update to a previous article I posted about porting M.A.M.E. to the Microsoft XBOX. I have managed to remove just about all of the bugs in the rendering code. It’s even a little faster than it was before. I’ve fixed all the blown out colour & gamma problems and the sizing… Need to read the rest of “M.A.M.E. Emulator for Microsoft XBOX Update?” Click this link!

So some loony let me loose on a Microsoft XBOX development kit a month or two ago and I had some spare time on my hands this last weekend so it was only natural that I do something “creative”. M.A.M.E. for the XBOX is the result, and it was a lot easier to port to… Needing to get the rest of “M.A.M.E. Emulator for Microsoft XBOX?” Use this link!