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Comment Re:Children's Books (?!) (Score 1) 363

by The employee can cho (#33783572) Attached to: I typically read about __ books per year.

In the great green room there was a telephone
and a red balloon and a picture of....
the cow jumping over the moon
And there were three little bears, sitting on chairs
and two little kittens
and a pair of mittens
and a little toy house
and a young mouse
and a comb and a brush
and a bowl full of mush
and a quiet old lady who was whisper hush.
Goodnight moon.
Goodnight cow jumping over the moon.
Goodnight bears and goodnight chairs.
Goodnight kittens and goodnight mittens.
Goodnight mouse and goodnight house.
Goodnight clocks and goodnight socks.
Goodnight comb and goodnight brush.
Goodnight nobody and goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady whispering hush.
Goodnight stars.
Goodnight air.
Goodnight noises everywhere.

My daughter is 13 months old.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Code Review of Doom For the iPhone 161

Posted by Soulskill from the old-dogs-new-tricks dept.
Developer Fabien Sanglard has written a code review for id Software's iPhone port of Doom. It's an interesting look into how the original 1993 game (which he also reviewed to understand its rendering process) was adapted to a modern platform. "Just like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom was rendering a screenframe pixel per pixel. The only way to do this on iPhone with an acceptable framerate would be to use CoreSurface/CoreSurface.h framework. But it is unfortunately restricted and using it would prevent distribution on the AppStore. The only solution is to use OpenGL, but this comes with a few challenges: Doom was faking 3D with a 2D map. OpenGL needs real 3D vertices. More than 3D vertices, OpenGL needs data to be sent as triangles (among other things because they are easy to rasterize). But Doom sectors were made of arbitrary forms. Doom 1993's perspective was also faked, it was actually closer to an orthogonal projection than a perspective projection. Doom was using VGA palette indexing to perform special effect (red for damage, silver for invulnerable...)."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Posted by Soulskill from the be-careful-they-cheat dept.
Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.
Games

Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-anger-your-base dept.
mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 159

by The employee can cho (#27833109) Attached to: First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC
FYI: Reardon's production was capped with regulations because other Steel Firms could not compete in the open market. Rather than better their own products, they leveraged relationships in Washington to enact regulations to level the playing field.

It had nothing to do with safety, although they tried to play that card as well.

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 159

by The employee can cho (#27832307) Attached to: First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC
Rearden is a reference to Atlas Shrugged. However, in this case the reference is to the Rearden Metal that was named for character Hank Rearden. His product was stronger than steal and cheaper to produce.

In Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden makes a fortune selling bean-bag chairs filled with rearden metal shards in an unregulated market. When heavy soft-chair regulations are imposed, Rearden refuses to sell his chairs to the people responsible for the new restrictions. Finally, he trades the love of his life, Dagny, for a case of $ cigarettes.

Great story.

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