Tag Archives: Gaming and virtual environments

Best summary so far of iPhone OS 4.0 license agreement vs Unity3D

Posted on 2010-04-11 by frank

tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions! Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight. Edit 12 April … Continue reading →

QuickTime, Texturing, and OpenGL

Posted on 2007-02-26 by frank

The movies I’ve examined don’t have an alpha channel so I’m using RGB and it works fine. // Create an off-screen gworld where QT can draw gworldBuffer = calloc(width * height * 3, 1); QTNewGWorldFromPtr(&gworld, k24RGBPixelFormat, &movieBox, NULL, NULL, 0, … Continue reading →

Gamecubing it up

Posted on 2006-12-08 by frank

That Nintendo Wii, it sure looks shiny and new, at least, the ones you see in the stores bolted to their displays look shiny and new. They don’t seem to be nearly as supply-constrained as the XBox 360 when it … Continue reading →

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Second Life and libsecondlife

Posted on 2006-11-30 by frank

Google’s link to libsecondlife says, ‘libsecondlife is an open source project to reverse engineer the Second Life networking protocol.’ How is it ‘your’, i.e. the community of Second Life residents’, protocol if it has to be reverse engineered? A scalable … Continue reading →