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Apple Releases New Sandy Bridge Mac Minis and Thunderbolt Display(macrumors.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
Haha. I remember joking about the name of this game at the Naughty Dog offices when it was like 3 years late -- I swear it was in the 90s! Perhaps during the development of Crash Bandicoot Warped. Never ever pick a title with the word "fore
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by agavin 15y ago
I have some detailed articles on the Making of Crash Bandicoot at my blog: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/category/games or the first of the Crash series: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
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by agavin 15y ago
Mario 64 wasn't itself written in LISP at all. It's models were built in Nichimen graphics, a SGI based 3D design tool written in Allegro CL. As far as I know, the games we did at Naughty Dog (Crash 1-3, Jak 1-3 + X), and later Uncharted we
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by agavin 15y ago
All of the AI and character control in Way of the Warrior and the first 3 Crash Bandicoot games was written in GOOL 1&2, my first and second generation LISP systems: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban... I h
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Game of Thrones – Episode 1 Review(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
3 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 16y ago
The no-OS is certainly no longer valid with the networking services etc. Still, even on the PS2 there are areas where you might or might not want to use the OS, or plenty of ways in which you can tailor your code more tightly to the machine
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Crash Bandicoots 1-3 Compared - Squeezing more out of the same hardware(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
9 points by agavin 16y ago|2 comments
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Crash Bandicoot - Teaching an Old Dog New Bits(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
38 points by agavin 16y ago|2 comments
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by agavin 16y ago
I just posted another technical article on the Crash series: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/26/crash-bandicoot-... or the HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372240
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Teaching an Old Dog New Bits(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
5 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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IPad 2 - Less is More(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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Game of Thrones - The Houses(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on TV: Lost vs The Love Boat(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 16y ago
Ultima was so easy to patch that I wrote my own character editor in basic that worked on II, III, and IV (Apple II versions). You'd insert a disk at the programs's request, load a character and could edit virtually any property or inventor
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by agavin 16y ago
There is now a part 7 and part 8. http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/10/crash-bandicoot-... http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/16/crash-bandicoot-...
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Crash Bandicoot an Outsider's Perspective via Andy Gavin(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
3 points by agavin 16y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 16y ago
NDI didn't ditch GOAL because I left. In fact they used it for JakX and they also ported it to the PSP (successfully). However, the PS3 development didn't get started on porting it early, so they went with a different tact. Christophe (co-p
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Crash Bandicoot as a Startup(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 16y ago|1 comments
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Making Crash Bandicoot(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
44 points by agavin 16y ago|2 comments
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by agavin 16y ago
I would like to add a corollary to this theorem. The best programmers are also willing to work with the annoying technologies -- although they will gripe (healthily) about them. It's all a balancing act. There is a type of programmer who co
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by agavin 16y ago
RSS brings me 90% of my outside information. And by doing it with programs like Reeder that use Google Reader to sync the feeds and what's been read allow me to do it on 3 computers, an iphone, and an ipad without ever seeing the same junk
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by agavin 16y ago
The only programming I'm doing at the exact moment are little hacking projects. But I did a whole bunch of backend "cloud" programming in 2006-2008, and I used Ruby for most of it. This included 90% of the backend for Flektor.com (now decea
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by agavin 16y ago
From the late 80s through the early 2000s Lisp was my language of choice. The post author went through many of its advantages -- mostly true. I even went so far as to write an entire compiler and environment (a several man-year endeavor) to