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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Ripple Look Ion 330 Nettop

Submitted by admin on August 27, 2010 – 5:46 pmNo Comment

6a3a9dfa1a80x178.jpg Ripple Look Ion 330 NettopAll the way from South Korea comes a new nettop developed by Ripple and codenamed Look Ion 330 which doesn’t have a price tag yet, nor a release date.

Anyway, there are some known specifications of the Ripple Look Ion 330 Nettop, including:

- an Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor running at 1.6GHz;
- nVidia GeForce 9400M as the graphics card with DirectX 10 support;
- 1GB of DDR2 RAM memory;
- a hard-drive with 160GB of storage capacity;
- DVI, HDMI, and S-Sub on the connections;
- a 6-channel audio system;

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