I've Been Immortalized!

I’ve been immortalized in webcomic format, thanks to Raven Perez over at God Mode.

Check it out!

I had no idea I was so pale and… well… vampire-like, but I think I can live with it. Funny stuff (based on a true story, in fact). Thanks, Raven!

2 Comments September 7, 2007

Vista and the Old Games

It has come to my attention that Vista doesn’t play well with my older games, i.e. everything before The Dishwasher.  ZSX3/Manic Space, which I’ve ran on Vista successfully, uses DirectX 8.0, but the older ones (ZSX 1 + 2, SCZ) use DX7, and I’ve had no luck with that.

Here’s a nice technical discussion/flamewar on the msdn boards about the topic.

The gist is that some developers are feeling spurned by Microsoft for dropping support for old technologies, but Microsoft has stated that the technology has reached its planned end-of-life, and it’s time to move on.  I tend to side with Microsoft on this one–technology does not age like classic novels.  It is a shame to see old games die, but honestly–we shouldn’t have to bury each new OS release in piles of legacy support.

So, long story short, if you want to play SCZ, ZSX2 or ZSX, use a Windows 2000/Me/XP box.  If anyone figures out how to get the older ones working on Vista, let me know.

6 Comments August 29, 2007

Seattle Ho!

I just reached Seattle!

They charge $10/day for Internet.

More info to come!

8 Comments August 12, 2007

The Incredible Blog Relaunch

Anyone keeping tabs on me will notice some things:

• The original blog somehow died
• The site has become extremely minimal (geocities-esque, even)

I think I know what happened, but I’m not sure. My guess is that somehow someone got some malicious whatnot on my simplePHP blog, which resulted in timeouts for any IP trying to connect to the site after the first attempt. Weeks of timeouts, even.

Well, we can all stop panicking now. I’ve decided to use a wordpress blog because it’s got a robust editor and is most likely more stable than my site.

Anyway…

The big news is that I’m going to GameFest. I’m currently in the Syracuse airport, headed West. The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is a finalist in the dream.build.play competition, and we’ll see how it does on Monday.

For anyone who hasn’t seen The Dishwasher in action, here’s a (slightly dated) video:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lscKqMsnpJY]

6 Comments August 12, 2007

Zomberman screenie–

Check it!

8 Comments November 14, 2005