Zen-like Thought For the Day

Kick Off was a game for gaming fans who quite like football. Sensible was a game for football fans who quite like gaming.

Has Anything Changed?

Mouse Mat

With a good optical/laser mouse, I'd always thought the mouse pad was obsolete. Wrong! A good pad makes a hell of a difference, and not just for gaming.

I decided to try out a Razer Goliathus and now I'd never go back! Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommend you give this a try.

Personally, I prefer the control edition.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mouse-mats/razer-goliathus-control-edition

Ron Gilbert

Just before he created the greatest adventure game of all time, Ron Gilbert wrote this:

 http://www.grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck

#genius 

RIP

The Amiga always had better graphics and sounds, but the first time I loaded a new season on PC, I knew its days were numbered!

Dad's IBM Thinkpad back in 1994. I installed Day of the Tentacle and Championship Manager 93 and I was hooked!

Words of Wisdom

"Having one less character to type is NOT a good reason to prefer float over double..."

The extra precision can surprise you by fixing a lot of weird buggy stuff that you hadn't managed to trace back to floating point precision and, unless you're targeting some really specific old hardware or trying to simulate the universe or something, doubles don't cost you anything so might as well use em!

That's the problem with taking examples from badly written books - when your focus is on learning a bit of path-finding or something and the fact that the author riddled his code with floats just doesn't register!

Out of interest, switching to double fixed a few bugs like the rounding of vector angles to their nearest 45 degrees.