August, 2007

Installing Valve’s STEAM and Counterstrike on Ubuntu

Posted on Aug 30, 2007 in All Blogs, Applications, Games, Linux, Tutorials | 104 comments

This is only my experience downloading and installing Steam and Valve games like Counterstrike 1.6 and TFC on Linux. Your experience may vary.

Guide to Roms (console game emulation) on Ubuntu

Posted on Aug 27, 2007 in All Blogs, Applications, Games, Linux, Tutorials | 1,270 comments

Gaming console emulation on PC is nothing new. An emulator is a program that mimics the hardware and firmware from a gaming console (such as the Super Nintendo), to play roms. Roms are just computerized copies of console games. For PSX and other CD-based systems Roms are called ISOs. This guide is just my personal notes on emulating the different game consoles on Ubuntu Linux (Feisty 7.04 in this article).

Ubuntu Linux Games – Top Picks

Posted on Aug 25, 2007 in All Blogs, Applications, Entertainment | 532 comments

If you’ve switched to Ubuntu (as I have) or any other Linux distribution, you may consider the following free (and in most cases open-source) games, as they’ve been favorites of mine for some time now.

Graphics from the Command Line

Posted on Aug 24, 2007 in All Blogs, Tutorials, Web | 21 comments

ImageMagik is something nearly all developers can all appreciate. It’s a little software suite that allows you to create or modify batch images on-the-fly from PHP, C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and several other languages. It can be tricky getting used to, but I’ve located a guide that explains the basics. Once reading through this, you should be pretty familiar with ImageMagik, and how you might apply it in your applications:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428

Colorization Using Optimization

Posted on Aug 24, 2007 in All Blogs, Applications, Etcetera, Tutorials | 5 comments

This is a bit advanced, but the outcome is very cool. This process takes a black and white (or color) image, lets you scribble in some colors, and the colorization application accurately fills in and shades the rest. It can even do animated clips, as shown below.

Attention GIMP Image Editor Users!

Posted on Aug 24, 2007 in All Blogs, GIMP, Tutorials | 11 comments

For those of you not familiar with the GIMP image editor., it’s a powerful cross-platform image editor licensed under the GNU GPL. Out of the box, GIMP is pretty powerful, but it can parallel (or as some might claim – exceed) the usability of Photoshop once you add some community-created plugins or scripts.

In 2006 a thread started at nintendo.com detailing some very useful tricks for the GIMP image editor. While the tutorials on this site are geared towards creating and editing video-game related images (signatures, banners, avatars, etcetera), the tips can be quite useful for all GIMP users.

Stencil Revolution

Posted on Aug 24, 2007 in All Blogs, Tutorials | 91 comments

I stumbled upon an interesting thread on stencilrevolution.com

Check it out. It outlines a process to inexpensively “tattoo” your clothes with a stencil and some bleach. The outcome can be really neat: