Archive for the 'Computers' Category

What's goin' on

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I think I should sum up what has happened the last few days.
I have… (In no order whatsoever.)
* …been wanting more money so I can buy myself an Archos Gmini 402. (It’s just perfect.)
* …been longing for Christmas (I long for Christmas all year round, so that’s no news :P )
* …driven a car alone [...]

SSSSnake, twisted

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I just finished the latest version of my console based Snake game made in C++, SnakeC3 (Snake Concept: Phase 3). Now it’s a real snake game (SnakeC2 wasn’t, it was more like “keep going”), with a twist. Unfortunately, I’ve only gotten it to work on Windows (WINE doesn’t work), mainly because of extensive use of [...]

Quake 1 betterness

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

I can’t make up my mind too easy…
Well, I just got Quake 1 (glquake) running, and remembered how good it was. Gameplay better than DOOM II, but yet levels as simple as it… Q2 is WAY too complex for me, I just get lost in the levels… :/
Let’s get through Quake 1 before doing anything [...]

Quake II goodness

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Yes, I know Quake II was released ages ago (back in 1997), and I also know that it’s 2005 now and that Quake 4 was released some days ago, but anyway, I fell in love with Quake II yesterday. :)
It even runs flawlessly on my computer that certainly isn’t designed for games (Celeron 2.4, 256 [...]

Kubuntu Breezy

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

I upgraded my Kubuntu Hoary (5.04) install to Kubuntu Breezy (5.10) during the weekend and I couldn’t be much happier with the results. Breezy is just great, it works a lot better than hoary which had a lot of glitches that gave it a betaish state. Let’s hope it gets even better in Dapper (6.04), [...]