X-ray crystallographers, radio astronomers and fans of distributed computing efforts alike – rejoice! distributed.net has successfully completed it’s long running “OGR-25″ project to harness the spare capacity of thousands of computers around the world to exhaustively determine the optimal 25-mark Golomb Ruler.
(more...)I recently upgraded my main computer, but the ventilation capabilities of my existing case couldn’t deal with the increase in waste heat coming from the new components and the system “ran hot”. Adding more fans wasn’t really an option as the system was already quite noisy so a new case with better cooling was in order. After some research on the interbeams, I decided on the Antec P182…
(more...)Warhammer 40,000 is a rich, detailed universe and, after playing the Dawn Of War real time strategy game set in this universe for a bit, I see two other Warhammer 40,000 games just gosh darned crying out to be made…
(more...)Back in 1999 I created a version of Daleks in Javascript. It’s been offline for some time as, by today’s standards (if not 1999′s) it uses some very, very bad Javascript and HTML. But I’ve now hammered it back into some sort of working order for modern browsers and it kind of mostly works. Sorta. You get it…
(more...)Noldor from CPC Zone has posted some clever source to automatically decrypt Appleby Associates Amstrad CPC tape loader (a.k.a. the “GO! Loader” as it first appeared on U.S. Gold “GO!” branded games). Outwardly these loaders are characterised by a three digit counter smoothly counting down to zero, usually in the bottom left corner of the screen.
(more...)If your youth was misspent dodging “ghosts” in the 1980s video game Pac-Man … you may be bemused to learn that a computer program has learned to play just as well, using tactics that it developed by itself.
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