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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Toshiba Terca A11 and Qosmio X500

Submitted by admin on January 21, 2010 – 4:38 pmNo Comment

8a4aaaa6460 tiny.jpg Toshiba Terca A11 and Qosmio X500It feels like Toshiba has been going full speed ahead since CES 2010 as far as its laptops are concerned, but who can blame them?

For example, they are shipping the Tecra A11. The A11 has a 15.6 inch screen, integrated number pad, NVIDIA GPU, Intel CPU, and retails for $879.

They are also shipping the Qosmio X500 (seen in photo). The X500 has a Core i7-720QM processor, GeForce GTS 360M GPU, 8GB of memory, 18.4 inch display, 500 GB hard drive, and Blu-ray. This has a price of about $1,549.

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