Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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No-power Boogie Board LCD tablet wants to replace paper

Submitted by admin on January 22, 2010 – 9:00 pmNo Comment

11cf13e5af32630.jpg No power Boogie Board LCD tablet wants to replace paper

Kent Displays has been working on its no-power reflex LCD for a while now, but now the company has sprouted a new arm — Improv Electronics — and that arm is clutching the new Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet.

It’s not a tablet computer meant to take on Apple’s upcoming offering or HP’s Slate. Instead, it’s a clip you can write on and erase on its pressure-sensitive display, and it only uses power — from a watch battery — when it needs to erase. It’s good for 50,000 erase cycles, the company says.

The Boogie Board already sold out at Amazon, but when they returned Imrpov will be selling each Boogie Board for $30 — or “15 times less” than a sheet in a steno notepad all things considered, the company says.

Read the full press release after the jump, if you’re into that.

Via TFTS

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