MOD Monday #30

March 29, 2010

Here is “Deadly Jammin II” by Watchman, part of the Finnish demogroup then known as Deathstar, in 1989. Download MP3 Download MOD

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Asura Engine Extractor Beta Release

March 28, 2010

I have just released a beta version of the Asura Engine Extractor. Please go to the project page for more information!

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Lost S06E09 – Ab Aeterno – Smoke Monster Flashing Eyes Screencaps

March 24, 2010

In the past, viewers of the show have commented that the shape of the Monster has a physical form similar to a creature, with a body and a prominent head and while we’ve had various characters in the show throughout the series, including this episode, mention that they looked into the “eye” (presumably) of the [...]

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XNA 4.0 2D Point Sprite & Custom Texture Particle Demo

March 23, 2010

Here’s a quick XNA 4.0 particle demo. It can use a custom texture or if no texture is passed, it’ll emulate point sprites by using a 1×1 similar to my previous post regarding SpriteBatch based lines. Check out the source code and take a look for yourself. Download Source Code

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MOD Monday #29

March 22, 2010
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Here is “Klim’s Theme” by Jim Young, also known as U4ia, who wrote the music that featured in the game LineWars II. This song is somewhat different to the majority of the songs I’ve posted so far in that it heavily features a piano. It also has a great bass line later into the song. [...]

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Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP First Impressions

March 22, 2010

What I should have mentioned was XNA 4.0 was just a part of the download mentioned in the last post. It also allows the writing of Silverlight applications and under the Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition. It’s been a while since I’ve used XNA in any form whatsoever, so coming into XNA 4.0 with a [...]

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Getting Started with XNA 4.0

March 22, 2010

I’m going to get started with learning XNA 4.0 especially as it allows development for the new Microsoft Phone 7 device, which for me, to leverage such an existing technology that I understand, at least to a small degree and can basically get straight into, is quite an exciting prospect. Here’s are the goodies: MSDN [...]

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Alien Versus Predator (Asura Engine) Extraction Utility

March 19, 2010

I’m currently trying to extract some stuff from a .PC file. These are ZLib encoded files and the data within seem to be uncompressed files of various kinds (.DDS, .WAV, etc). I hope to extract some of the model files and textures, probably of the Aliens, and have them rendered in either an XNA or [...]

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Website Development – Internet Explorer Versions Testing

March 17, 2010

While searching for how to check Internet Explorer 5.5 / 6.0 and so on in Windows 7, I came across this invaluable little tool called IETester. This application allows you to test a website on IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, IE 8.0 as well as whatever version you currently have installed all from within [...]

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MOD Monday #28

March 15, 2010

Here is “Ch2” by Vital. Download MP3 Download MOD

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