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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HTC HD2 One Step Closer To Running Google Android

Submitted by admin on May 18, 2010 – 8:29 amNo Comment

2dbbfdce79ndroid.jpg HTC HD2 One Step Closer To Running Google Android

While we’ve seen Google’s Android OS ported to many mobile devices out there, one of the devices that folks really want Android to be running on is HTC’s powerful HD2. There have been various attempts before this, and now another person has managed to get the Linux bootloader up and running on the HD2, even allowing the device to play a 720p video. While it’s still quite a distance from getting Google’s Android to be running perfectly on the device, it’s certainly a step in the right direction, and something that we’ve got no complaints about. Check out a video of this hack in action after the jump.

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