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. Also worth noting are the comments in the MOD file (also preserved in the MP3 in the ID3v2 comment tag). They are quite deep and thought provoking. Download MP3 Download MOD

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 half-cocked memory of what was what and finding out a great deal of it "actually wasn’t” was something of an experience. I decided to knock up a quick and dirty missile game, and the first thing that…

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 OpenGL application.

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 the application. Here’s a test showing Google with each version of Internet Explorer on a separate tab with the IE 5.5 tab selected. This will certainly save a lot of hassle.

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