My wife and I bought the Aion collector’s edition and managed to get in to head-start before the main horde of players joined in later on in the week. It’s a great game so far, I must say. The attention to detail is very nice and the fights feel fast paced and dynamic.
Archive for September, 2009
Dodgy OS X File Sharing
Posted by arcana on September 19th, 2009
I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour, while trying to copy files from my iMac to my Macbook Pro across my network.
Sudo and Mac OS X Applications
Posted by arcana on September 3rd, 2009
Occasionally I need to edit system files that belong to root and I found that it can be quite annoying as I always end up using nano in the terminal as it doesn’t seem possible to elevate the privileges of an application from Finder. For example if I wanted to edit my /etc/hosts file then [...]
Optimus Maximus
Posted by arcana on September 3rd, 2009
I just came across the Optimus Maximus keyboard today. I don’t know how I managed to miss such a cool gadget. I don’t usually rave about keyboards but this thing is insane! Each key has a 48×48 pixel 65,536 OLED display, meaning the keyboard can be made to display any letter or image on any [...]
Fixing the iTGB 1.2 Memory Leak
Posted by arcana on September 1st, 2009
I recently purchased Torque 2D for the iPhone and came across a large memory leak in their iTGB 1.2 release whenever I ran the game on my iPhone 3G. I had a very basic platform game running with no engine modifications to the source code at all. The game would run for about 4 minutes [...]
Posted in Programming 
Tags: Garage Games, iTGB, Memory Leak, Torque, Torque 2D for iPhone 
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