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Open Computing: 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part Two
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010. 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part Two. When we left off in part one. You should have had a kitten that skated across the screen forward and backward. This would be awesome for a hover ship, but let's animate our little cat so that its legs move while it is walking. (oh, I'm also using the KFu alpha 13 library now). My first attempt at animating my cat was in the middle of the night while I was almost asleep. I'm including it here as an example of what not. We can't just replace kit...
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Open Computing: New Exception Handling Model
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New Exception Handling Model. My friend Derek and I are working on ideas for a new (or revised) programming language. Tonight we discussed exception handling. We're replacing try/catch/finally with something else, which I will demonstrate below as if it were part of PHP (it isn't! Myfile.dat'); error log! Special("Ignore this exception n", 3, '/no perms.txt'); }. Ok, so what is this? Just a couple simple concepts:. Only functions declared with a! On the flip side, you are force...
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Open Computing: Google vs Bing
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. No matter how "evil" Google gets, rest assured that Microsoft has done worse. I should give some of Microsoft's history on here sometime, that would be fun. Let's just say that you don't get to the top of the Business software game by being nice. I did a straight image search for the word rose, and then added the color filter of green, and here are the results:. Google has twelve green roses, two pictures from the movie Green Rose, and ONE rose that is not green. And yahoo o...
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Open Computing: My Experiences with iPhone 4. Part 1.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013. My Experiences with iPhone 4. Part 1. I have been a long-time Android user. But, for reasons too complex to elaborate right here, I've just decided to take the plunge and give the iPhone 4 a try. Yeah, it isn't the newest iPhone, but neither is my Android the newest (it's an LG Optimus Slider with the Ginger kernel installed.). So far, I love the iPhone, but as with most of my past loves, this relationship is complex. Behind-the-Scenes Multitasking and Process Management. I was pre...
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Open Computing: January 2011
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Saturday, January 8, 2011. 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part Three. Alright, so last time. I promised you a second cat and some grass for them to walk on. When I originally got this far in my program I just copied and pasted and created a few if statements in order to take care of the second cat, but instead I'm going to use objects because they are going to be more efficient in this case (where the cats aren't significantly different in how they behave.). Stamp ground("ground.png");. For (int i = 0; i.
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Open Computing: December 2010
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010. 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part Two. When we left off in part one. You should have had a kitten that skated across the screen forward and backward. This would be awesome for a hover ship, but let's animate our little cat so that its legs move while it is walking. (oh, I'm also using the KFu alpha 13 library now). My first attempt at animating my cat was in the middle of the night while I was almost asleep. I'm including it here as an example of what not. We can't just replace kit...
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Open Computing: August 2010
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Thursday, August 19, 2010. Support for older Intel Graphics Chipsets in Lucid Lynx. For those having trouble getting Intel Brookdale G [82845G/GL] and similar chipsets to work on Ubuntu 10.04, I have good news. The Ubuntu Wiki has a page containing workarounds and fixes for the issue. Thursday, August 12, 2010. Linux can do this. Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Tutorial on making colored maps. This Tutorial uses a Python script and free SVG maps to make maps based on csv data files! Video, State of Free Software.
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Open Computing: 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part One
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Friday, December 3, 2010. 2D Games with Kitten-Fu, Part One. As part of the UVOG arcade project, Jeff has been working on a 2d graphics library for C called Kitten-Fu. It's cute and fuzzy like a kitten but powerful like a ninja . I'm going to be using Kitten-Fu (KFu) and other open software to create a retro, side-scrolling game about . what else, ninja cats. First, we need to install the KFu library. KFu has a couple of dependencies, so make sure you install them first:. Which is a great pixel editor...
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Open Computing: February 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. No matter how "evil" Google gets, rest assured that Microsoft has done worse. I should give some of Microsoft's history on here sometime, that would be fun. Let's just say that you don't get to the top of the Business software game by being nice. I did a straight image search for the word rose, and then added the color filter of green, and here are the results:. Google has twelve green roses, two pictures from the movie Green Rose, and ONE rose that is not green.