Monday 08 February 2010 at 2:26 pm
I love Sim City. Sim City 2000 was the first computer game I bought. $55 was a lot of money back in the 1990's (I should note the absolute cost of computer and video games has remained somewhat constant). SimCity 4 is considered the prime cute of the city builder genera to this day. Sim City Societies was a joke and Cities XL, well, is not doing so hot. So some of us enthusiasts got together to make
And I am in charge of programming the terrain engine. It is at the point where I think it is good enough to share. (Textures are a work in process)
Here is how to run the thing.
* Install the panda3d runtime (3 MB)
* Head to this webpage to run the prototype in your web browser.
Refresh this webpage and you should see the demo box below. It will warn you that this program is self signed (I made it, it is me! It doesn't have any viruses I promise!), accept the certificate and play away. Right mouse button pans the camera, middle rotates, and it is buggy as all hell.
Monday 08 February 2010 at 09:47 am
HacKey is a website which scans the music you reported to your Last.fm profile and determines what key you prefer to listen to. D major wins for me with 14%!
From Download Squad
Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 12:41 pm
Simple mechanical adding machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
If one were to take a modern CPU and make it mechanical like the video above, the marble cpu would be approximately 200 kilometers in length and width. That is about 125 miles or 15,625 square miles. According to this post, such a cpu would be larger than Belgium, or 59 other countries. It would be the 133rd largest country in the world.
<ThomasEgi> if each marble has 15g weight
<ThomasEgi> and for a full FFFFFFF in all register ..
<ThomasEgi> you'd need up to 2 billion marbles
<ThomasEgi> that makes more than 30thousand tons of marbles
<ThomasEgi> if each marble has 15g weight
<ThomasEgi> and for a full FFFFFFF in all register ..
<ThomasEgi> you'd need up to 2 billion marbles
<ThomasEgi> that makes more than 30thousand tons of marbles
