Mac P2P
Just my bloody luck, I finally get ADSL in and two days later Audiogalaxy gets taken down by the RIAA. Macslash are here to help though with a Post-Audiogalaxy round up of what the P2P community has to offer Mac OSX.
All entries from 27 Jun 2002
27 Jun 2002
Eternal Darkness
If like me you own a Jap/US Gamecube you'll have been suffering from the dearth of A Grade titles from Nintendo since Christmas. Well the flood gates are about to open over the next couples of months with more potential classics on the way than you can shake a stick at. First out of the traps is Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Nintendo's first atempt at taking on the "mature" gaming market. The couple of reviews i've read so far have both used the words "one of the best games we have played..ever", so fingers crossed for when it turns up from DVD Box Office.
The 5k
This years entries are up at the5k.org. Unfortunately it looks like the efforts to shave off those last few bytes have meant an end to any cross-platformification. The current leader of the pack is an awesome windows IE only version of Wolfenstein 3D. This tiny, jerky little bitmap miracle has to be seen to be believed.
I'm not even sure how it's done, it appears to be redrawing a single graphic on the fly and the code looks like javascript. Some of the comments mention xpm and xbm, but googling for those doesn't turn up much other than that they're graphics formats. Can anyone satisfy my curiosity?
Update: I've put a slightly de-obfuscated version of the code here for anyone who wants a look, and click comments below for a little bit more detail on how it seems to be done.
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