Archive for the 'Games' Category

Crysis, STALKER and my new nVidia 8800 GT

0 Comments Published August 12th, 2008 in Games, Hardware

I know that I’m a nutcase, you don’t need to tell me. Didn’t I once say that the main reason why I bought the Xbox 360 was not to have to upgrade my PC/Mac again only to play computer games? Well, here I am, the living contradiction: My new nVidia 8800 GT graphics card arrived [...]

Far Cry, Vista and my Mac Pro revisited

0 Comments Published August 8th, 2008 in Games, Hardware, Software

Maybe I was having a little bit too much on my hands in the last days, but I’ve re-installed Vista Ultimate Edition 32 Bit SP1 on a 160 GB disk on my Mac Pro (which is what people nowadays call ‘running Windows in BootCamp’).
My Mac Pro has 8 GB RAM, and that’s too much for [...]

What programming language do I use to write a game?

4 Comments Published May 6th, 2008 in BlitzMax, Games, Programming

The net is full with questions like that, and usually all the kids asking them get the same idiotic answer: C++. Sure. As if they all had the skill set and the will to write their own Quake 5 engine from scratch. As if using the object-oriented abomination of the low-level system language C would [...]