The life of a Games Programmer

So with Christmas comming up it's almost time for my anual direction change. I was hoping that my ATmega devkit would arrive in time, bu...

So it turns out the ZIP file issue I was having is a bug, and SUN have now filed it. This is good as it means I'm not going mad! Someone...

So, I've figured out what was wrong...ready? The ZIP file. And I have no idea why. I unzipped it, then rezipped it, and it all works. Su...

So, back with Minus4j once more. I'm trying to get some ZIP support in here so that more files on Plus4world will work, but once moe=re ...

I've been reading through my PHP for dummies book and I'm actually having fun with it! Its very like C/C++/C# with only minor differ...

We've got SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! Good, proper, BIG snow! This is the view from the Realtime Worlds office, and its great!! I hope it h...

I've managed to get the upload program working once more with the x64 driver, however I now need to press F8 whenever the machine is boo...

I was fixing some sound issues with Minus4j last night, as I suddenly discovered it was actually pretty broken. If both channels went quite ...

I've been having a little trouble getting resources inside JAR files working, I took some code from my mobile phone days and used it ins...

I've just released the latest version of Minus4j, this is the one thats been up on plus4 world for a week or so. Its got some major impr...

I've just installed Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 with Ubuntu running as a VirtualMachine, and its all going pretty well for a first ...

After a marathon day yesterday I managed to get some audio into Minus4j, and it really does make a huge difference. For the moment its TED s...

I've updated Plus4 World with the latest version of Minus4j. I've added a couple of handy features that allow even more games to ru...

So with the release yesterday Minus4j is actually in pretty reasonable shape. Sure it needs the source cleaned a little - theres loads of co...

So, it turns out the Java compiler is fine (I think). My timing code (that makes the game run at a specific FPS) appears to be crippling thi...

Well, I've decided to release what I've done so far so that Plus4world (and anyone else) can get the new bits.so head over to my MIN...

I've managed to fix Mercenary, although it wasn't the BCD mode it was the overflow flag inside the ADC instruction. Anyway...

Albatross!! Albatross!!! Get yar Albatross here! okay... Got slightly side tracked as a beta of Call of Duty 5 came out today so I had to ha...