Our hometown Wellington is having its anniversary this coming weekend (well, Jan 22, actually, but we turn it into a long weekend), and we’re celebrating by giving you a 33% discount on the e-book “Modern Graphics Programming Primer.” This deliberately short e-book is well worth getting if you want to learn how to write graphics/games […]
The results are in for this year’s AmigaOS graphics card survey and they’re quite interesting. For starters, 467 people contributed this year vs 348 in 2017. That’s a 34% jump. Maybe the community is growing…What are people using as their main graphics card? There are two clear trends:People are slowly migrating toward newer cards. Use […]
A brand new game that takes full advantage of Warp3D Nova has just been released by the AmiBoing/Entwickler-X team. Called Spencer, it’s a classic Jump’n run platform game with a bright and colourful cartoon 2.5D style.From a technical standpoint, its graphics are rendered in 3D with shaders providing advanced per-pixel 3D lighting. Having put a […]
This website has been moved to a new server. The LTS version of Ubuntu it was running on reached it’s
Spam and captchas; two really annoying things. One (spam) is the reason why the other (captchas) exists. Today I made the switch from Mollom to Google’s reCaptcha, and here’s why.Last week I asked people to post their Cow3D benchmark results in the comments, and that exposed a problem. Some reported that it was impossible to […]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. I wish you all a wonderful and Merry Christmas and a happy new year.I have no idea what your year has been like; what fun you’ve had and what challenges you’ve faced. Hopefully you can look back on 2016 and have many things to be grateful for. May […]
This post is a bit random because it has nothing to do with technology. It’s about a South Island parrot that the NZTA spotted setting up road cones in front of the Homer tunnel. How is this relevant? Well, it’s a Kea, and this company is called “Kea Sigma Delta.” Yes, the same Kea that […]
I’ve just come back from the AmiWest show. It’s the first time that I’ve attended, and it was great to be there. I got to:Meet and chat with other Amiga users & developers Listen to Bob “Kodiak” Burns (one of the original developers) talk about developing the Amiga and working for Commodore Hear Colin Proudfoot’s […]
You’ve probably heard the old adage that you “learn more from mistakes/failure than success.” But is it true? I’ve seen arguments for both sides, including neuroscientific research which concluded that success has a greater effect on the brain. My take: success is the better teacher, but failures are absolutely necessary.Success Teaches What Works; Failure Teaches […]
