Just had a nightmare finding a binary for windows that wasn't cygwinized... eventually found it here
http://www.hackosis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nc111nt.zip
[update]
Jon Craton has mirrored this file in case the other link goes down
http://joncraton.org/files/nc111nt.zip
(Cheers :)
[update 2]
It …
While I'm greatful for examples like this J2Me GameCanvas example I'm not so happy about this bit of it:
/** Starts the canvas by
firing up a thread
*/
public void start() {
Thread myThread = new Thread(this);
// Make sure we know …
The Wine project has been going since 1993, and has got to the point where a large percentage of windows programs run well in linux.
A perennial question is when 1.0 will be released, excitingly it looks like this will be sooner than we thought - as seen from their …
I’ve recently been learning python and decided to note down the *very basics* that took longer to find out than I would've liked.
Without furtherado, heres my 5-minute-python.
It can be useful to test sounds in your current engine (esp for testing MOD support), so I've made a tiny sound player for pygame. The code is just this:
import sys, pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame.mixer
if __name__=="__main__":
pygame.display.set_mode((120, 120), DOUBLEBUF | HWSURFACE …The good news is, my laptop can run the Blender game engine at a decent framerate.
The bad news is I found out that is the Vista taskbar that more than halves it. I run without Aero, as Aero completely borks OpenGL (quite apart from the fact that Vista limits …
My dad found this old advert for the Osbourne I... at only £1250 + Vat (and with a free 12 Inch amber for a limited time), this is The One To pickup... or not as they were never popular. Weighing in at "below 24lb" (10 Kilos!) this was a proper computer …
As our washing machine broke, I was in the Laundrette where I saw this on the wall -
The writing on the bottom says
£1000 Reward!
Will be given to any person who can prove that this soap manufactured
by Lever Bros.
Port Sunlight on Mersey
Contains any form of adulteration …
While trying to find some good freeware to use the flash on my phone as a torch, I stumbled across a couple of nice apps
Obex Commander for sending files to your phone over bluetooth.
YBrowser a Series 60 file manager (you can do useful things like send multiple files …