I don't have the proper ratios calculated, but for instance, if you were to make every sprite narrower by X% you could fit more on the screen width. When the widescreen TV stretches from 4:3 to 16:9 then the result is that the sprites end up being the aspect ratio you desire, but you were able to f...

Is there a simple explanation to the function of Cathodic Ray Tube? I can have a go at it, but you probably need a decent knowledge of physics to make any sense out of it... CRTs consist of a large vacuum tube, with a screen on one end, and an electron gun on the other end. The screen is coated wit...

KOS handles disc swapping mostly automatically. If the disc has been changed, the file system will be reinitialized as soon as you try to open a new file handle. You can also spin down the disc by calling cdrom_spin_down, and you can check the drive's status using cdrom_get_status, like so: int stat...

From the look of it, that .rar DCDayDreamer posted contains a modified Hacx IWAD file, and a modified version of nxDoom. It seems to have the Dehacked patch embedded in the WAD file (with the lump name of DEHACKED). I don't recall if nxDoom itself had the ability to load Dehacked patches from a WAD ...

I can vaguely remember getting it to work, but I can't remember exactly how I did it. I also can't seem to find the version I released anywhere. As far as I remember, I used the Hacx WAD file from the website, and loaded that as an IWAD. I may have filled in some of the missing pieces from FreeDoom....

If it is one of the first nine on the taskbar you can use windows key+number to shift between windows in that application. Better than nothing, but it still requires you to know whether the app you're using is one of the first nine, and which number it is. Nowhere near as quick as Cmd+~ on a Mac. M...

I think the task bar and quick launch should be merged, if they are doing the Mac Os X thing they should do it right. Because it is a tad bit inconvenient now, to have half the items on one side and half on the other. Err... It already does that. It behaves kind of like the Mac OS X Dock. Icons for...

I just checked a video uploaded on April 30th. As expected, it had the current standard (format 34) and high quality (format 35) versions, a 720p version (format 22). Those are all the h.264 based formats, two of which are in an .FLV container, and one was in an MPEG-4 container. It also had format ...

I have a hard time believing that it's totally unrelated, considering that the vast majority of YouTube's users use the Flash video player and that Flash support for H.264 appeared publicly a couple months after the iPhone launch. Without Flash supporting H.264, they'd presumably have to keep the v...

It's not specific to SD cards, but Recuva works pretty well.

I take it from the 'no robots.txt' that BA doesn't want anyone raiding the site's archived pages for missing binaries, or other downloads..? The what? As I recall, all those files were hosted one someone else's web space. Which then vanished, taking most of the files with it. I'll see if I've still...

Yes, there does seem to be a lot of visual noise. It's really hard to tell without seeing it in motion, but I don't think the distant backgrounds are going to be much of a problem. They never were in the original Sonic games, after all. The near backgrounds... might be a problem. It's really hard to...

BoneyCork wrote:The handful of people who here who are well-educated enough about the outside world to understand the censorship issue just use google.com anyway.

Assuming the Chinese government don't just block it, or redirect it to Baidu. They've apparently done it before.

So i na few words I understand that contrary to most of the "modern" consoles, it is common on the DC to use more or less directly (thru memory mapping, DMA or SQ) the framebuffer. Not usually. It's generally only used in homebrew, as a quick-and-dirty way to display something on-screen. ...

The Dreamcast's video hardware doesn't work like the PSP's. In fact, it doesn't really work like anything else. Blitting first, using only the 2D hardware. Your first option is directly writing to the framebuffer. This is incredibly slow. The SH-4 is connected to VRAM through a fairly slow bus, and ...

As far as I can remember (I stopped caring about Windows licensing years ago) there are several types of OEM Windows discs / licenses. The first is the pre-activated kind that major computer manufacturers (Dell, for example) use. This one uses generic product keys (not the one on the sticker attache...

On other games, video is all messed up. I have found no racing games that have playable video. The road is not even visible, and the top half of the screen is just covered with a still picture of the road. Some other games have video problems too. Frogger, for example, has a big black bar going thr...

Any tutorials I've seen suck. Basically, they tend to teach you how not to write decent PHP code. A good example would be teaching you to do database access like this: mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password'); mysql_select_db('database'); $name = addslashes($_GET['name']); $sql = "SEL...

Hmm... On the blog post they made on the first day, they said: Remember: It’s all about momentum. This statement holds as true with this challenge as it did in the Sonic games that many of us grew up playing I said something similar a few months ago : The first (and, in my opinion, most important)...

What exactly is LuaPlayer? Any relation to the LUA based Dcplaya? Aside from using the same scripting language (Lua), no. No relation. http://www.luaplayer.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_Player Basically, it's a Lua interpreter for the PSP, with built-in wrappers around some of the PSP's har...