http://siwu.info sir, i'm certified cpr ! Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:51:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey folks! Long time no see! Disclaimer: I do not condone piracy and/or stealing. Use at your own risks. Also continue to use the real SeeqPod service, as they are doing a great job. Just a quick post to let you guys know about a small library I did yesterday. With this ... http://siwu.info/82/seeqsharp-use-seeqpod-from-c.html Lately with friends we've been having some multiplayer fun at GTA 2 Classics Edition (the free one that you can download at Rockstar Classics). I'm amazed to see how cool this game still is in multiplayer. BUT, there was a but. As of now it was impossible to make it ... http://siwu.info/80/gta2-classics-stuck-at-640x480-and-fix.html It's been a solid 3 months since I've last worked on DWMaxx. I am just posting this quick post to tell everyone that I'm resuming work on it. I've had a LOT of computer problems (my 2 computers died), and a lot of real life stuff to take care of. Moreover, ... http://siwu.info/79/dwmaxx-back-to-business.html I know you folks pretty much don't give a damn about my computer problems, BUT I feel like I need to say it anyway. Since yesterday I started having problems again with my computer. It would not restart in a loop, but this time, just freeze, usually after 10-15 mins. ... http://siwu.info/78/computer-outage-2-the-psu-strickes-back.html So saturday night some friends and I went to see Black Bomb A, a french metalcore band, in concert. How was it? Well, I almost broke my nose (I took some guy's head in the face), my thumb is hurting, my arms/neck/back muscles are soared, and I slept 13 hours ... http://siwu.info/76/meh-body-be-hurtin.html There may be a stall in the development of DWMaxx for the next two weeks, because I think my motherboard is dying (Asus P4P800 Deluxe). I spent the whole weekend trying to revive it, it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.... Well, after 3 days and nights and 100€ on a ... http://siwu.info/75/computer-outage.html I've decided that for the good of this project, I may be best for it to go open source. So that's it, DWMaxx is open sourced! It is distributed under GPLv2 (to prevent people from using it for commercial purposes). Of course, it doesn't mean that I'm letting this project ... http://siwu.info/74/dwmaxx-going-open-source.html So yesterday I spent most the evening and night rewriting some of the low level code, to interact more directly with MIL (on which DWM sits). The result is a much faster code, and thus creates smoother animations. This also allowed me to implemented Z Rotation :) Once again, pardon my ... http://siwu.info/73/dwmaxx-z-rotation.html Quick video of one of the first shots of Sinapse running in pair with DWMaxx, hope you'll like it ;) http://siwu.info/72/sinapse-running-dwmaxx.html So tonight I tried to make Sinapse run with DWMaxx. The two mains issues were that Sinapse is old, and that I was running into some kind of lags. Basically, when I would resize the window in the animation loop, the window would not resize. After tweaking everything in my code, ... http://siwu.info/70/dwmaxx-another-quick-tech-demo.html