barrettcolin

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by barrettcolin 16y ago
"I'm a little embarrassed to admit that until seeing the first photo just a few minutes ago, it never really occurred to me that they would have had to film the opening crawl that way." I recently discovered (from browsing around the bonus
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
Whether it was a mistake is rather a matter of perspective: I'm sure the Microsoft folks didn't think it was wrong. But that aside: I realize that it may not have read that way, but I think what Mono does is an elegant solution to an unfort
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
Right, understood. My particular beef was that the function to create a managed Mono string from a UTF-8 encoded unmanaged string was Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (which is even more confusing if you are familiar with the Windows string encoding
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
There are quirks here and there; I use mono through unity3d, so that informs the things I notice. Specifically interop with unmanaged DLLs is: well, more guesswork than I would like. For instance, Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (function that crea
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
I think at one point the survey listed the number of samples; now it just seems to be percentages which isn't as useful. Anecdotally the survey has a lot of respondents (as in, a majority of the Steam userbase) but you never know.
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
The Steam hardware survey: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey now includes software, which includes Silverlight.
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
Your observation is likely correct, but I was talking about sorting two or more independent sets, not partitioning the sort of one set; assuming that a "proper" (non benchmark) application will have several workloads waiting to be processed
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
Outside of a benchmark- that's latency you can hide though, right? Without reference to the specifics of this situation, which I don't claim to know much about, the co-processor can be sorting one dataset in it's local memory while the CPU
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
This happened to me too just this past week; the only resolution was a full system restore. Pretty shocking.
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
They've already purchased another browser game company; Jolt Online, based in Ireland: http://www.next-gen.biz/news/gamestop-acquires-jolt-online-g...
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
That "billion euro company" wouldn't happen to be a bookie, would it? The prospect of a thin wall between the proven addiction machine of "social" games and actual cash money gambling makes me a little queasy.
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by barrettcolin 16y ago
Does the color scheme (of things like the SMS app and menus) remind anyone else of CGA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Standard...
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by barrettcolin 17y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here: Java is bad because of "dirty little secret(s) of JIT technology". But doesn't LLVM IR need to be JIT-ed as well?
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by barrettcolin 17y ago
The idea (for the interpolating case) is that drawing occurs between two physics states; say at time0 physics has state0 (position, orientation etc) and at time1 physics has state1. Then the state at draw time is an interpolation of the sta
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by barrettcolin 17y ago
Also also: the readme that comes with the download is missing the '.tech' section available here: http://pouet.net/nfo.php?which=52938
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by barrettcolin 17y ago
IQ posts some comments about the implementation of Elevated in this thread on gamedev.net also: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=5...
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by barrettcolin 17y ago
Check out 'Elevated' - winner of the 4k PC demo category at Breakpoint 2009. It's a fly-through of a realistic looking procedurally generated terrain model with music and some fancy post processing effects all squeezed into a <4096 byte
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by barrettcolin 18y ago
Spooky: there is an almost identical iPhone game called 'The Plateau'. Screens here: http://www.tuaw.com/photos/the-plateau/1270610/
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by barrettcolin 18y ago
Slick though both Versions and Cornerstone look, neither of them support svn merging. Does anyone know of a GUI subversion client on Mac that does?
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
> it must have some interesting physics code inside. You can check it out for yourself: http://box2d.org . You can also download several of the Game Developers Conference presentations given by the original author here: http://www.gph
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
Have a look at this article for some useful links on VGA tricks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X If you really want to pick up where you left off, I'd suggest downloading djgpp (gcc for dos - http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.h
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
My Irish is a bit rusty, but I think this is the gist of it: "...is Patrick Collison from County Tipperary who won the top prize at the Young Scientist Competition in 2005. Even though he was only in transition year in Colaiste Chaladh an T
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
You can use the SPEs just fine under PS3 Linux - plenty of information on cellperformance.com; access to the GPU (and possibly other juicy parts, like certain IO devices) is restricted (so no hardware acceleration for graphics).
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
techcrunch mentioned "...Flektor is custom code built on Flex..." in this article : http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/15/myspace-to-acquire-flek... . Which one might take to imply at least a healthy chunk of it is Flash/Flex/Actionscript.
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by barrettcolin 19y ago
The tutorial here is really good: http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc Introduces the command line compiler and has the source for several simple SWFs.