I have to admit I like Java. I’m not going to go on about it, but it’s something I’d like to code a demo in soonish.. hmm..PC Demo FanClub made its move to Hornet today. Check out the new (DOS)demos Jer has featured there.linuxgames.com has some interesting titbits, especially the announcement of version 7 of Simple DirectMedia Layer, a low level game development API for Linux, BeOS and win32. I’d download it but my net connection is woefully slow 🙁‘Gratz to CPX4 for getting the Beginners Linux Guide up and running again!As all you experimental kernel guys probably know already, […]

A new Linux gaming site has opened at http://www.linuxgames.com. Demos and games people have always been at loggerheads over one thing or another, but keep an eye on this site. It’s good to have a major games site (telefragged.com) supporting Linux games. Anyone notice that the webwatcher doesn’t seem to be watching my site anymore? It’s still listed, but updates haven’t been reported. Now, getting those TBL demos to run in Linux.. Beware that the iXalance executable is a libc6 app. The README file with the iXalance loader only mentions the TBL page (original authors of the iXalance loader on […]

Right at this moment I’m looking at Astral Blur running natively in my X display! I’ll post a link to the two files I needed tommorow. (iXalance loader and ggi 1.3 rpm file.) Wow, it looks cool! Linux not for demos anyone? 🙂 Interesting Quizlet on the PC Demo Fanclub. I voted for the 4k/64k demos. To my mind these small demos show the most skill in writing fast, efficient AND effective code (it’s fast, does its’ job properly AND does the right job).. What will you vote for?

In a recent interview with Linus Torvalds he was asked “Does Linux support multimedia better than Windows 95?”. He was pretty upbeat in his answer, saying, “There are actually game developers who prefer working on Linux and developing all their software on it. When the game is ready, they port it to Windows because that’s obviously the larger market.” , but also practical where he stated, “There are multimedia environments for Linux too, but you don’t have the same choices you have with Windows.” Hopefully that will change. Very good interview.

Last weekend 3 boys lost their lives when their house was firebombed at 4:30am on Sunday morning. The 3 were asleep in their home in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, in Northern Ireland when petrol bombs were thrown into their house. Why do I write about this on Tuesday? I just saw the funeral on the news and I’m sickened by what people do to each other. A radio broadcaster interviewed nationalists and unionists last night in Drumcree and neither side will budge. Both sides are living in the past bringing up old grievences and perpetuating the hate.

Typical. I download some plugins for Photoshop and I can’t get them to work, but they install into GIMP “user filter” without a problem! Take a look at this plugin at the GIMP registry, it’s quite useful. After 2 weeks of using Photoshop to create simple logos and doing a bit of artwork I still prefer the GIMP. If the GIMP had a decent font selector and perhaps file selectors had beem added to plugins to choose textures and background images it would easily beat Photoshop for ease of use. The most annoying thing about Photoshop is the lack of […]