Introduction At the start of the pandemic I started to see a lot of videos on the topic of buying older hardware, and how old hardware is sometimes more performant for the…
Tag: Linux
Cheese removed from Computer Recycling Xubuntu installations
What is Cheese? Cheese is a picture-taking program for computers with webcams built-in (laptops) or attached (external via USB). Cheese is also capable of recording small videos (for larger videos, a program…
Squishy and the Fishes – Linux Game Development
Introduction I’ve previously written about the state of game development on Linux. While Unity, Unreal, Gamemaker, Godot, and a slew of other tools exist for Linux, it’s pretty rare to see someone…
Knights of Pen & Paper II
A dice game with a sense of humour If games like Torchlight II, Diablo III, and Grim Dawn are your thing, Knights of Pen & Paper II will seem like a snooze-fest…
Fasteroids – August Update – Bugfixes
Silence? Back on July 7th I wrote about Fasteroids, the game I developed a few years ago. In that post I mentioned that I had some significant changes in mind for a…
Initial Gamemaker experience under Xubuntu Linux
Previous Gamemaker experience I bought version 1.4 of the Gamemaker game engine on a Humble Bundle many years ago. At the time Gamemaker ONLY ran under Microsoft Windows. It was possible to…
First experience trying to learn Unity on Xubuntu Linux
The king of game engines Unity is considered the big kahuna of game engines. It is often cited as the best engine to learn if your end goal is to work in…
Fasteroids – An Asteroids-like game for Linux and Windows
Today I realized that, since redoing this web site, I still haven’t added any information about the game I made back in 2017-2020. Recently I revived Fasteroids, and made some changes to…
Findmonitor BASH script – identify and price monitors with one script
Note: This script is NOT compatible with systems running Wayland. We use Xubuntu Linux at our project. The idea for this BASH shell script was born out of the need to process…
Legend of Grimrock – a better Bard’s Tale III
Bards Tale III – my introduction to 3D like adventure Back in the late 1980’s I worked for Simcoe Computer Consultants at the 400 Market, outside of Barrie, Ontario. The 400 Market…