I finally changed the blog’s theme today to match the theme of my old website. I will be doing some tweaking on it for a couple of days, but most of it is done. Because both Internet Explorer and Firefox cache their websites, it might be possible that you’re seeing half old and half new theme. Just refresh the page and you’ll be fine.
When it’s allmost 30 degrees celcius outside, you can’t help that your computer gets hotter then usual. But this time it got hotter then I expected. My processor went to 70 degrees, my BIOS warned me about it, and the computer shut down.
I first thought that there must have been something wrong with my system, but that wasn’t the case. Everything worked fine. I moved my computer to a more open space and ended up with having it in the middle of my bedroom. I removed the side of my case and figured that the PCI cards were way to close to my videocard, so I moved them all to the other end. Now there’s a space of 2 slots between my videocard and my PCI cards (instead of no space there was before). This really seemed to help. My videocards core temperature wasn’t 80 degrees anymore, but about 70. That really helped (no, I dont do overclocking 
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My next step would be buying a better VGA cooler for my Radeon.
I guess I’ll just keep my case open for a while; I dont want my motherboard to fry 
After I installed MSN on my laptop, my Internet Explorer starting page was msn.com. There is this part on msn.com where it will give you tips (message of the day). It literally said (translated from dutch):
“Did you know?: A webcam can be used to show your contacts who you are”
Well DUH!
I was looking around the internet for 3D engines again and stumbled on the Unreal 3 engine. You would think, isn’t that Unreal Tournament 2003/2004? That’s what I thought, but it’s not even close to true. It’s higher then Doom 3 quality on an Unreal Tournament 2004 speed.
Per-pixel lighting, bump mapping, real time lighting, terrains… this list goes on and on. Just look on this website:
But I guess this will remain nothing more then a dream. The prices for the Unreal Engine 3 are not yet released, but the prices of version 2.x are high enough to know that 3 would cost a fortune. I quote:
” US $750,000 for one of the available platforms, plus US $100,000 for each additional platform.”
Sigh…
Ever found yourself looking all around the internet for that specific version of a linux distribution? You want it in ISO format? Download, burn and install? Well the search is over. LinuxISO.org has allmost all Linux distributions alphabeticly listed on one website.
I know there’s Linux on your xbox, but Linux on your playstation 2? Now I’ve seen all. I would really love to try it, but I dont have one 
. Here’s a link for who’s interrested:
Ever wanted to work on the moon? Google has job opportunities for future moon missions: Google Lunar Job
Haha… Nice april fools joke 
I’m not sure if this is legal, but I think that if you own a playstation and original games it should be no problem. It’s possible to play playstation games on your computer. Even on high resolutions (up to 1600×1200).
ePSXe is a great emulator for playstation games. I’d say one of the best. It supports multiple plugins. You can choose your own video and sound plugins. Depending on your plugin you’ll have lot’s of features to choose from.
You can download ePSXe from their original website for free: www.epsxe.com
Plugins are easy to get. But finding the needed playstation BIOS binaries might be a little harder. You can find those here:
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?type=begins&file=scph
Different BIOS binaries to choose from. There are a couple of others, but with these you can play allmost any game.
I run my games in scph7502 because that’s the version of my own playstation, so all my games work fine.
PSX Final Doom in ePSXe (In window mode, 2xSal enabled)
After you downloaded and installed your BIOS, you can move on to plugins. I’d recommend the following plugins (these are for the so called “high-end” machines):
Pete’s OpenGL2 Driver is by far the best because it has so many features. One neat feature is 2xSal. It’s a technique to smooth pixels (takes up a lot of video ram though). Just look at it’s settings window:
Should you have any more questions, you can allways email me.
Ever wanted to record a demo of youself playing? Or in my case: make a trailer for your game (and/or engine)? I’d recommend fraps for that. Fraps is an easy to use program to record such things with sound, high video quality at about 25-30 fps.
Fraps is not free, but it’s worth it: Fraps.com
Ever wondered how to create your own “smart” calculator? A program that can solve a mathematical formule given as string? I found a couple of functions made by Muhammad Abubakar which would come in usefull for that. Just call the function Parse.
The visual basic 6 module can be downloaded here.