I’m back home again and enjoying my second week of holidays. Unfortunately it’s so incredibly hot and humid that it’s making life difficult to work in front of the computer. I decided to spend a few hours working out my schedule of what I need to do before I’m ‘feature complete’ for the tech demo. Read More
This message is a little belated as I’ve been without the internet for the past week. My parents computer is now virus free and everything is back to normal so I can surf and email at a speedy 42Kbps.
Again a lot has happened since my last post and I’ll try and remember everything I’ve been doing since I last reported in. Firstly, with Cliff’s help I tested CIC over the internet and it worked without a hitch. All the messages were passed around correctly and considering I haven’t put any timing code in Read More
I’ve made quite a bit of progress over the past week and have completed the core implementation of both the offensive and defensive states. Along with the ability to choose the path and type of missiles to fire the player can now select incoming groups of missiles and choose which counter missiles to fire at Read More
I’ve been wanting to get a website for quite some time now. On Friday I went into negotiations with my credit card and we decided a website was finally worth the time and money. Cliff from work suggested Dreamhost as he’s been with them for a while and hasn’t had any problems at all. I Read More
I’ve finally finished the first pass over my missile interception code. It took me quite a while to iron out the remaining bugs, but it’s all done now. I ended up having 3 bugs which were causing the missile to miss slightly, however now they’re fixed it’s looking quite good.
So I just finished my first game of Civ IV. It took a little over 8 hours and I ended up loosing closely to the Germans in a space race. The game is simply amazing. I’ll need to have a few more games before I can make a detailed description of exactly why it’s so Read More
Well it finally happened. I’ve been using computers for about 15 years now and today I lost my first group of files due to not backing up. I had the bright idea of reinstalling windows over the weekend as it was becoming quite slow and freezing for 10 seconds whenever I opened “My Computer” (you’d Read More
I’m experimenting with an idea for the movement of the missiles in CIC. Rather than having the missiles move independently using their speed and direction I’m pre-calculating the missile paths. The missiles still use the movement under constant acceleration equations (suvat) to have correct movement speeds, however my new approach comes with a lot of Read More
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