ERROR Blogs have had comment submission forms for years. The ability to comment gave blogs an element of interactivity. Readers could respond and interact with the author and other readers. It was great!Then along came spammers, submitting links to their websites in a desperate bid to get more visitors, and trick the search engines into […]
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 […]
