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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Snapback automatically reconnects calls when your BlackBerry takes a dive

Submitted by admin on February 17, 2010 – 8:02 amNo Comment

376470b3aa23318.png Snapback automatically reconnects calls when your BlackBerry takes a dive

It’s an unavoidable truth of carrying a cell phone in a world full of massive skyscrapers and thick-walled tunnels: Dropped calls happen. It always seem to happen at the worst of times, too. You’re driving along with your Bluetooth headset clamped to your head, when bam! Call is gone. You don’t want to look away from the road to check if the signal has returned, right? Because next thing you know, your front end would be half way through a highway divider. A company called Movius is looking to make the whole dropped call process a little bit less annoying for BlackBerry users with an application called Snapback. While Snapback can’t miraculously fix your carrier’s shortcomings and end dropped calls all together, it will reconnect calls at the first opportune time once they’ve dropped. Snapback constantly runs in the background, monitoring for call failures – once one occurs, it waits until the signal strength has returned to a strong, steady level, then reconnects your call. And …

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