Bill Kendrick - Slashdot User

Comment Club Drive on Atari Jaguar did it 14 years ago (Score 1) 507

by Bill Kendrick on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @03:50PM (#26284001) Attached to: Avoiding Wasted Time With <em>Prince of Persia</em>

I started playing Club Drive on the Atari Jaguar (pretty crappy game-wise, but interesting enough, and it really entertains my 2 year old son). It has a Rewind feature where you can rewind the action at any point. (It also auto-rewinds to bring you back onto the road if you fall off a cliff and into the ocean, in the San Francisco world, for example.) This game was from 1994. "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" came 9 years later.

Sorry, the Atari fanboy in me is showing.

Submission + - Trolltech bringing KDE multimedia to Windows, Mac (businesswire.com)

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Bill Kendrick

on Thursday December 13, 2007 @12:14PM

Bill Kendrick writes: "Back in October, Aaron Seigo mentioned that KDE 4's "Phonon" multimedia API will gain Mac (QuickTime) and Windows (DirectX) backends, and now it seems Trolltech is working on it, too. In the meantime, Ars Technica reviews KDE 4 rc2. I, for one, welcome my new K Desktop Overlords!"

Submission + - Tux Paint gains plug-in support (tuxpaint.org)

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Bill Kendrick

on Friday November 23, 2007 @06:33PM

Bill Kendrick writes: "This week a new release of Tux Paint shipped. (For those not yet familiar, it's an open source drawing program for kids, which runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.) This time around, all of the so-called 'Magic' effects (blur, mirror-image, smudge, etc.) were stripped out of the main code base and turned into plug-ins that are loaded at runtime. Along with Pango-based text rendering and new input methods for Thai and Traditional Chinese (and the previous version's addition of Japanese and Korean input methods and SVG vector graphics support), this paint program "for kids 3 and up" just might be on its way to becoming a contender with the likes of Gimp and Photoshop! Aside from making it easier for us to develop new Magic tools, we are hoping that the new plug-in feature will used by high school students to learn the basics of graphics programming."

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