Warping it up! » Gaming http://www.bytefarmers.com/log Fini Alring's Glossy Tech Zine Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:42:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Cam Tracking: Wii Style http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/2008/06/17/cam-tracking-wii-style/ http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/2008/06/17/cam-tracking-wii-style/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:49:32 +0000 Fini Alring http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/?p=724
CamSpace Creates a Wii For Everyone (Minus the Nintendo Console)

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The system that launched a thousand games …

Worms (Amiga)When it was unveiled 22 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was instantly recognized as a groundbreaking multimedia machine.

The computer’s consumer price point belied the Amiga’s prowess as a rendering tool for realistic audio and eye-popping visuals. Its usefulness in the field of animation — from Babylon 5 and Wallace & Gromit to Andy Warhol’s You Are the One — was equaled only by the smoothness and realism the computer brought to games.

The heyday for Amiga games was the late ’80s and early ’90s. The computer’s custom chipset and advanced (for the time) graphics capability led to sumptuous 2-D titles in a variety of styles, and even some basic 3-D games. Here’s a look at some of the more innovative entries in the Amiga game canon.

By Simon Carless

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In order to lock out both copied games as well as homebrew software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, Microsoft built a chain of trust on the Xbox reaching from the hardware to the execution of game code, in order to avoid the infiltration of code that has not been authorized by Microsoft. The link between hardware and software in this chain of trust is the hidden “MCPX” boot ROM. The principles, the implementations and the security vulnerabilities of this 512 bytes ROM will be discussed in this article.

The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox – Xbox-Linux

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Who’s the n00b?


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“The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story on Peekaboom,
a two-player on-line game in which one player tries to get the other player to guess a word associated with an image, by revealing parts of the image one click at a time. From the article, ‘The process of revealing objects, or highlighting images within the larger context of the photo, is the sort of thing that researchers in computer vision must do to teach computers to see.’”

Slashdot | Teaching Computers to See with Games

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* Real Life Tron

Also see
* Human Pacman
* Mixed Reality Pacman

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* Brave Space
* Tetris Shelving | www.inhabitat.com

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Slashdot | Nintendo DS Wireless in Freefall

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It seems many people are angry because they feel that ‘Knights of The Old Republic 2′ (KOTOR2) was rushed out to have the game released before Christmas of 2004.
This pretty much sucks, since I’m more than half thru the game…

TheForce.Net – Video Games – KOTOR2: The Incompletion Controversy

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(Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) team released version 1.0 (Azathoth). OGRE is currently the premiere open source graphics engine and is used in several commercial projects and hundreds of academic and hobbyist projects. OGRE has an active user community and features advanced shader support, multiple shadow techniques, and much more!”

Slashdot | OGRE 1.0 Released

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