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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Apple posts $3.07b profit in Q2 2010

Submitted by admin on April 21, 2010 – 12:39 amNo Comment

85c4b04f2eplelog.jpg Apple posts $3.07b profit in Q2 2010

Do you ever wonder how much money Apple really makes? What, with their large lineup of ridiculously popular products it must be a ton, right? Yup, you’re exactly right. Apple has just posted their Q2 2010 financial results that they they earned a $3.07b profit with revenues of $13.5b. Of that, Mac sales were up 33% while iPhone sales were up 131% with iPod sales decreasming 1% (probably because people are buying so many iPhones).

These numbers are sure to increase with a new iPhone just over the horizon, not to mention the iPad 3G which will be released at the end of this month.

via engadget

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