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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Speck TuckPack Sleeve Review–Great For Just Laptops

Submitted by admin on May 28, 2010 – 9:14 amNo Comment

We’ve got one more bag to show you, provided to us by the folks out at Speck Products, and it’s the simplest, smallest, and most compact of its class. For those of you out there with netbooks, brace yourselves because today we’re talking about the Speck TuckPack Sleeve.

The Speck TuckPack Sleeve is a notebook sleeve designed for use with thirteen inch or smaller laptops, notebooks and similar devices. It’s got a quilted and fleece-lined compartment for your notebook, an outer slip pocket for cords and similar small items, a handful of organizer pockets inside for other gear, and detachable shoulder straps.

It’s a spare and compact system–ULTRAcompact, in other words–that won’t give you a lot of utility, but it really isn’t supposed to. This will carry your laptop, and not a whole lot else. It carries less than even yesterday’s offering, but that’s a plus for a lot of people. In fact, this thing is so small that it can be easily tucked under the arm.

And when you consider that it’s being offered for forty dollars, it’s a great solution if you’re ONLY looking for something to carry your smaller notebook or similar mobile gear. The Speck TuckPack Sleeve may not be the greatest bag we’ve covered here, but it certainly does the job.

The Good

Absolute devotion to task

Highly compact

The Bad

Zero utility beyond its basic function

Score 6 / 10

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