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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Isabella’s Vizit touchscreen, cell-connected photo frame goes hands-on

Submitted by admin on March 25, 2010 – 2:22 pmNo Comment
9f9a146ffa01 top.jpg Isabellas Vizit touchscreen, cell connected photo frame goes hands on

Buying and pre-setting up a $280 touchscreen photoframe for your mom (Isabella calls the target market “parents of parents”) sounds like a tall order, and you add in the $6 a month service fee on top of that and you’re really buying in here with the Vizit photoframe. So, how does it perform? In a word: sluggish. Shuffling through pictures or the mystery-meat carousel is an exercise in patience, thanks to some slow Flash Lite UI performance, but at least the menus are simple and friendly, and the touchscreen is responsive enough that if you’re prepared for the pace, it’s not that frustrating of an experience. The actual service aspects are much more impressive, pushing and pulling photos all over the place, with an integrated web app for managing a white list of contacts. The advantage of the AT&T service plan is that your mom won’t have to do any work setting this up — when you buy the device it’s tied to an online account that you can set up for her before she even gets it — and that the device can also receive OTA firmware updates, so expect further functionality (like video playback, for instance) going forward. There’s a video after the break with the CEO of Isabella, showing us what’s what.

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