20110930 RegExpert & its postmortem

I finally published my first game ever! It’s called RegExpert, and if you like regular expressions, you’ll love it! If you don’t, you’ll learn to love them both! Also, since every game must have one, I’ve also written a lengthy postmortem. It’s the first game postmortem I ever write too, so I’m not sure if [...]

20081202 The BBC accidentally reveals some source code

… in this recipe (scroll to the bottom), and here’s the question: Which programming language are they using in that piece of code? My vote goes for Perl, because… It’s a well-known, public fact that they use Perl. In fact I have even heard someone complained the version of Perl they use is so old [...]

20061105 At Game On!

Yesterday we went to the famous and highly anticipated Game On exhibition at the Science Museum. We spent like two hours and something playing frantically with all sorts of systems, from old coin-ups to newer consoles; at the end my hands hurt like when I spent hours and hours playing videogames some years ago. Vectrex [...]

20061013 How about a nice game of chess?

Warning: if you haven’t seem this movie don’t keep reading – lots of spoilers below! Don’t remember how, but I ended up in the page of the manufacturers of the computer which Mathew Broderick used on the mighty War Games, called IMSAI 8080. That page has plenty of trivia and funny facts about the equipment, [...]

20060529 Real time Fairlight

I was coming back home past wednesday by St James’s Park and I suddenly found this scene which reminded me to something I had seen before: What it was, I couldn’t remember, until yesterday that I was feeling like playing some old games and downloaded some Amstrad CPC games. Then I remembered, when opening “Fairlight [...]