Hello again, today I will touch upon 2 games I created using an easy to use development platform called Construct. These were done using version 2 (today, they are in ver 3). They were just for my personal learning and fun. It’s mobile and all-platform friendly and there’s nothing to install. Just open the browser and […]
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Ventured into new arts wizardy today
Today was my first “encaustic” art workshop! Here’s my output from 2.5 hrs of tinkering with ideas and materials. It’s like sending me out to a hardware/hobby store with nuts, bolts, tools, and motors…you know I’ll build some working contraption when I’m done! This is analogous to that, except in the softer arts sense. No […]
My Disco Lemonade!
This was one of my biggest personal development project that was never published to the world (until now!)…Media Impact. Back in 2001, I abandoned it due to other obligations, but it certainly holds the place of a Disco Lemonade in my portfolio because it has pretty much EVERYTHING and it’s tasty 🙂 Multimedia, concurrent audio, […]
Pet Management – A very early Windows 3.1 program
Now, I’ve always loved having fish as long as I remember. Still have fish 🙂 Ok, this isn’t really about a fish, but rather a coding exercise (in the 90s) while I was splashing around in Windows coding (pun intended). The idea is simple: You have a character (Goldfish in this example), and you have […]
Recall- One of my earlier Windows 3.1 programs
Hello again! So, here’s another of my older software programs I wrote for fun, education. This one’s a “simple” Windows 3.1 program I wrote back in 1995 while learning Windows coding myself (school taught me C, Pascal, COBOL LOL!!). This is a type of a memory game. You have to match at least 2 tiles […]
Throwback to God in ’95
Hello again! I was going through my floppy disks (what’s that?) in my vault and re-discovered many of my older software programs I wrote for fun, education and some were actually sold worldwide (one native DOS program and several Windows applications complete with installation, help and all). This one’s a relatively tiny program that’s big […]
Where can you play arcade games online?
In keeping with the nostalgic theme, I did a quick internet search to see what’s out there. One of the most interesting and most effective way to run all the classic games natively is through an open-source DOS version called FreeDOS. You can download the system from their site (link below) and then you’ll have […]
Nostalgia (80s-90s) – Pt 3
It was early 90s…very early. I was in Berkeley, not attending Cal but working at a high-tech company located next to the campus as a support engineer to help pay my student costs. A product manager if you will wanted to show us the first-ever browser, forums, etc. fully working with actual UI! It was […]
Nostalgia (80s-90s) – Pt 2
In this part, let’s explore (or recall if you like) some of the life-defining sounds of the games of the times. Here’s my short list (there are more, but that’s not the idea here…you can always go seek out more after this on your own) of the games and their sounds I gathered in my […]
Nostalgia (80s-90s) – Pt 1
Feeling nostalgic…you know, the sounds of the classic Atari and NES games I grew up with (and some of us even coded parts & mods of them later when we learned “shi+”). Alas! Despite the latest xbox and ps4 and PC games, I get a little hit on my diaphragm when I hear the sounds […]