note for later: overclock the NES to stop it from slowing down due to too...
How To Overclock the NES We’ve been playing the NES we purchased earlier this year a lot lately. While we do have an Everdrive ready to help us get some homebrew going later (I’ve worked through a...
View ArticleSome future “big walk” suggestions
I don’t walk every day, but I do consider myself a walker. When I lived in Toronto, I would often walk from Bloor and Dundas West up toward Sheppard, catch the subway back down to Bloor, then walk...
View ArticleLink dump: distributed systems and video games
I googled “distributed systems masterclass” on a lark today, and ran across a nice looking free course (no affiliation), and it got me on a bit of a roll for related content. I found some new stuff...
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Rewriting An Old OpenGL Minecraft Clone
(strains of piano drift across the lake) Years ago, for a university project, I made a minecraft-like game in C with some already-very-dated OpenGL toolkits and versions. It was a color-by-numbers...
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Screenshots! Minecraft Clone Rewrite Update
I went with “Path 2” from the previous blogpost, and here are the bare beginnings: the dirt really catches the sunlight! You may notice that this image bears some extraordinary similarities to the...
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