Io, Io, Io!
Game Genie!
2010-10-13 20:46:37 As promised, I've committed the Akihabara 1.3.1 version (Link), that adds the famous IE9Beta and Konqueror support I've talked about. I've not tested the IE support very well, so I'm expecting reports in 3...2...1... ;)
I've spoilered everything, so there isn't anything to add.
Meanwhile, do you remember the Game Genie (Link) for the insert here your golden age console name?
Well... Akihabara has Game Genie too! Don't you believe? Just add Firebug in your Firefox plugins (Link), run your favourite game and start a new game. Then enable the Firebug console and, on the prompt line (that one with three arrows) write down:
For Leave me alone and Solitude
999 lives
maingame.hud.setValue("lives","value",999);
99999 points
maingame.hud.setValue("score","value",99999);
For Legend Of Sadness
99 small keys
maingame.hud.setValue("SMALLKEY","value",99);
Gain boss key
maingame.hud.setValue("BOSSKEY","value",1);
100 coins
maingame.hud.setValue("cash","value",100);
Pseudo-unlimited energy
maingame.hud.setValue("health","value",999);
I still hear the blow into the cartrige... Aaah... the old good times :) Powering on my Wii and playing the original Super Mario Bros. purchased on Virtual Console... ~ . ~ Long time no see, other OS!
2010-10-11 22:17:04 Hi all! Excuse me for the long silence about Akihabara - I'm still working on in my spare time as usual and I'm progressing quite well.
I'm working on small resource file editor, that will help you on editing tilemaps stackable like layers, logic objects position and various meta values.
I was simply tired of writing long lines with numbers - it was fun for small maps but, since I'm trying to work on something larger, an editor is a must.
I'll write something about when I'll have something working - meanwhile interesting things are happening at Boston Game Jams (Link) and on the community forums (Link) so keep the eyes open!
Distractions are everywhere, so I tried to have a look to my first love of Linux GUIs, that is KDE (Link) (Link).
The 4.5.2 version was launched days ago (Link) and I decided to download the Live-CD for dropping a pair of tears.
KDE is progressing very well but what is really surprising is how KHTML is kept up-to-date. It supports canvas and audio tags too! Obviously for me, adding compatibility was a must, so:

Larger image here: (Link) It still needs a bit of work, since audio is working in "iPad like" compatibility mode (i.e. background music only) but I'm going to give it a shot during the week.
And another browser is going to be added to the bunch.
Ok, a little of background.
Internet Explorer 9 is going to support HTML5 specs and, recently, was launched the first beta. That works on Windows 7 only.
Finding a Windows machine is quite difficult in my home: I use MacOSX daily on my iMac, my GF uses Ubuntu from years and I've an "old" Windows XP laptop in a drawer.
I've tried to find out how to test IE9 on my Mac and only two days ago I managed to install and run IE9 using Parallels.
So, finally, uncle Bill's browser is going to join the Akihabara supported browsers group.

Larger image is here: (Link) Performance are really surprising - it is smooth on a virtualized environment and without hardware acceleration (*cough* *cough* please, Parallels, fix...) and audio works pretty well too without any particular hack. As usual, it was harder to make IE9 working and change the HTML to center the canvas in the page than making games running... but finally, I've to say that Internet Explorer will be a modern browser.
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I hope not to regret :) ~ . ~ Against the fear of script
2010-10-07 23:00:09 I've decided to start a campaing against the fear of scripting. Probably there is still someone out there that thinks that Javascript and DOM handling is something for l33t Powerful Hardcore Masters Of The Code.
I'll try to explain that's not entirely true with a little snippet of code (Link) for creating an editable table without any particular framework. It is nothing special but could be handy (or funny ;) ) for someone. And yes, the rest of this post is in the table editor comments in the sources. Feel free to leave a message, if you find a bug, typo or anything! ~ . ~ « Pagina precedente | Pagina successiva » |