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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Microsoft presses ‘A’ to sue Datel over supposed copycat controller

Submitted by admin on April 2, 2010 – 1:48 pmNo Comment

0f31c3027f28 am.png Microsoft presses A to sue Datel over supposed copycat controller

Microsoft reckons that third-part peripheral maker Datel’s unlicensed Turbofire controller (Wildfire in the company’s native UK) comes just a little too close to the design and tech of its own Xbox 360 pads for comfort. So, according to a Reuters report, it’s suing. Specifically, Microsoft is said to be seeking monetary compensation (including profits Datel has made selling the controller in question) along with an injunction preventing the company from manufacturing any more of the infernal devices.

This isn’t the first time the two company’s have resorted to the courtroom to settle peripheral-related beefs: Datel filed a suit against Microsoft late last year when the console maker blocked the use of unlicensed memory units on Xbox 360.

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