We have so many interesting things going on. IE8 will be out soon, we've got Silverlight 2 in beta. Mozilla are working hard on TraceMonkey (huge Javascript speed-ups).
What I'd like now is two things... The first is a decent, stable DOM style interface to OpenGL (pref something like ES). The second is the ability to push and pull data from OGL. Given the amazing stunts even an old GPU can perform (operations on vectors and arrays of floats - often programmable but "simple" stuff like Multiply Accumulate and lovely matrix methods... SOoooo, what can't we have that?
The best thing to do is this... 1 - Read the OGLES spec carefully. 2 - Kill all the crap you don't need (all that old GLU type stuff). 3 - Describe the interface carefully in a format that JS will love. 4 - Release it as a standard FF plugin.
PLEASE!
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Sunday 17 August 2008
Wednesday 13 August 2008
Mediawatch UK - FAIL! Daily Mail - FAIL!!!
Because of this...
Parents horrified as most violent video game ever to launch on 'family friendly' Wii
I now REALLLLLYYYY want 'MadWorld'! For a start it's Sega. Secondly... look at that style. Gotta love it. I'm not a huge fan of "realistic" graphics. Some of the sexiest games ever simply don't bother like (Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, F0X, Rez etc...
John Beyer was quoted as saying "I've never seen this game for real or even heard of it but I think the authors should be hung from the nearest lamp post and all their women handed over to me for debriefing"
Quote the Mail "Nintendo's Wii has enjoyed phenomenal success as an innocent alternative to complex - and often violent - role play video games."... errr like Zelda? It's pretty violent when you analyse it... how about Boxing in Wii Sports, not exactly knitting practice eh?
As for the "Parents horrified"... well, amazingly not a single one was cited in the article.
I suspect the connection between the Mail and Mediawatch is some form deviant homosexual, Satanic pact to control all that we see and hear. Time will tell...
A representative from Sega left the following message "HAHHAHHHAAA Thanks for all the free publicity fuck face!"
Parents horrified as most violent video game ever to launch on 'family friendly' Wii
I now REALLLLLYYYY want 'MadWorld'! For a start it's Sega. Secondly... look at that style. Gotta love it. I'm not a huge fan of "realistic" graphics. Some of the sexiest games ever simply don't bother like (Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, F0X, Rez etc...
John Beyer was quoted as saying "I've never seen this game for real or even heard of it but I think the authors should be hung from the nearest lamp post and all their women handed over to me for debriefing"
Quote the Mail "Nintendo's Wii has enjoyed phenomenal success as an innocent alternative to complex - and often violent - role play video games."... errr like Zelda? It's pretty violent when you analyse it... how about Boxing in Wii Sports, not exactly knitting practice eh?
As for the "Parents horrified"... well, amazingly not a single one was cited in the article.
I suspect the connection between the Mail and Mediawatch is some form deviant homosexual, Satanic pact to control all that we see and hear. Time will tell...
A representative from Sega left the following message "HAHHAHHHAAA Thanks for all the free publicity fuck face!"
Saturday 9 August 2008
Retro fitting a Sony T1XP with an SSD HD.
MY (lovely) Sony T1XP _has_ had it's problems over the years. Mostly the result of excessive use and travel! Although only a 1.1Ghz Pentium M it still sharp and snappy running Win2K Pro or XP Pro. My machines run "odd" software. I'm not a regular user being a bit of a hacker. The sort of things I like to run on it are Dev Studio, MingW or similar, Photoshop, Firefox + debugging extensions, Cool Edit Pro/Audition and various control panels for outboard gear.
In the past the 40 gig 1.8" PATA drive (not ZIF) died and so was "upgraded" to a 60 gig drive. Turns out that the 1.8" drives in these things were also used on the iPods.
That HD is OK but spins _very_ slowly too save power so latency and throughput aren't great.
What can I do to A - stop the HD dying again and B - speed things up a little?
The answer I've come up with and, should, be answering over the next couple of weeks is "Can I retro fit an SSD drive into this machine"?
The first problem we find is that nearly all SSDs on the market ATM are SATA based - no go, simply can't plug it in. So, where do we turn for cheap flash storage. Well, CF (Compact Flash) card are cheap and replacable.
To plug that in we're going to need some sort of adapter (CF to 1.8" IDE). This transform actually turns out to be very easy as the only difference between CF and 1.8" EIDE is a 5 volt to 3.3 volt interface difference (sometimes) and a slight difference in pinout. We go to ebay and search for "1.8 compact flash adapter". That gets us that far.
Next we need a compact flash card. A 32gig card could cost as little as 60 quid. How fast/reliable they are I don't know. Others around 85 offer 100x speed. After that we get anything up to 300x but these are 130ish quid. Pricey (the 60gig replacement cost a little under 100 quid).
32gig isn't masses, but, think about this a little more. Maybe we could have swappable boot storage to switch OS's... I've got a use for that.
So, I'm going to charge my Paypal account and get hold of some of these bits and pieces.
In the past the 40 gig 1.8" PATA drive (not ZIF) died and so was "upgraded" to a 60 gig drive. Turns out that the 1.8" drives in these things were also used on the iPods.
That HD is OK but spins _very_ slowly too save power so latency and throughput aren't great.
What can I do to A - stop the HD dying again and B - speed things up a little?
The answer I've come up with and, should, be answering over the next couple of weeks is "Can I retro fit an SSD drive into this machine"?
The first problem we find is that nearly all SSDs on the market ATM are SATA based - no go, simply can't plug it in. So, where do we turn for cheap flash storage. Well, CF (Compact Flash) card are cheap and replacable.
To plug that in we're going to need some sort of adapter (CF to 1.8" IDE). This transform actually turns out to be very easy as the only difference between CF and 1.8" EIDE is a 5 volt to 3.3 volt interface difference (sometimes) and a slight difference in pinout. We go to ebay and search for "1.8 compact flash adapter". That gets us that far.
Next we need a compact flash card. A 32gig card could cost as little as 60 quid. How fast/reliable they are I don't know. Others around 85 offer 100x speed. After that we get anything up to 300x but these are 130ish quid. Pricey (the 60gig replacement cost a little under 100 quid).
32gig isn't masses, but, think about this a little more. Maybe we could have swappable boot storage to switch OS's... I've got a use for that.
So, I'm going to charge my Paypal account and get hold of some of these bits and pieces.
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