YOU THA MAN!!!

about unicode typing: my keyboard just has them keys O_O

however, a catch: I'm not sure if the construct-provided text-field reads unicode or it uses latin-1.

Any text file with characters outside ASCII can be turned into unicode with notepad. Just Save As... Unicode (little endian) or Unicode Big Endian.

Don't mess with UTF-8, it's difficult and has variable character width. It's mainly used for compatibility with legacy ASCII libraries or to reduce memory footprint. It's good for storage but bad for runtime.

Edit: action to override spacing with kerning is fine I guess... one could always loop and load offsets from a file manually.

Is there a baseline?

Actually to me the reasoning behind Nintendo is quite clear:

Last generation GameCube was the most advanced (before XBox came out anyway) gaming machine out there and it didn't get the sales the technically inferior PS2 continued to have.

Labs come up with dual screen "gameboy". Nintendo sells it as DS as to not tarnish the Gameboy brand if it fails (virtualboy!). Sells like hotcakes.

Nintendo has a look at labs again. What goes along these lines for home console? Wiimote with pointer and motion sensors. What do consoles lack that PC's have? pointer. What does DS have that gameboy didn't? pointer. What is the new thing being introduced? motion.

Can we do it as a Gamecube add-on? yes we can... but developers would have to support it. This usually means 2 to 3 titles TOTAL (look at eyetoy support on PS2) since 3rd parties don't count on customers having add-ons. Also, Gamecube never really took off.

Solution? bump the Gamecube hardware a bit (like DS is a bumped GBA) and make the new controller the default one. Make it cheap to expand (the connector at the base is pure genius, means no extra wireless hardware). Market motion controls heavily. Make the whole thing really cheap to regain market share lost with Gamecube.

ALSO: Most people pointed out the Gamecube looked too 'kiddy'. Take a page (or the whole book) from Apple, make it sexy.

Now, �is it 'gimmicky' ? those who say that now will soon change their tune, when Sony and Microsoft are singing the same song. (Natal, motion controls for PS3).

Me, i'm all up for innovation. I have a WHOLE BUNCH of ideas for motion control. Go play Metroid or Conduit on WII and you'll see the worth of the pointer. Motion also has it's advantages but they'll be a hard sell here so I'll just point out that I feel they've been badly used so far (mostly).

It just saddens me to see what ISN'T being done on Wii.

Anyway. I just purchased a controller to fool around with on PC get some experiments done.

Aw.

I just go through "new posts" and sometimes it shows me old stuff I haven't read.

Plus I don't get to post every day now no time

OpenCL should run anywhere where there's more than 1 processing core.

Of course, for video cards this will be implemented in the driver. I expect adoption rate to be similar to modern OpenGL, as it's also a khronos thing.

Nope. You can use a 360 controller on the PC Version of GTA4, but not a standard or PS2 USB controller.

argh. Just Argh.

this sound very nice and usable.

Also very much like the way its done in 3D.

Me likes.

Please! spacing specified by character PAIR as you wouldn't place AM the same distance apart than AV

that's kerning, by character pair!

Sweet.

True motion blur is invariably too expensive, except for very simple 2D at smallish resolutions.

Velocity buffer isn't hard to do but I can't think of a way of doing it with fx.

I suggest using my motion blur effect

Big dog Beta

only watch this if you already have seen Big Dog before.

Yes!

I actually tried one of those thinking that it would work.

Wow, it's a very simple but effective... effect.

I could easily see it being used in a silent-hill-ish game or for procedural vines on walls.

Oh and it crashes .99.3

\o/ it's bug report time!