.:11·13·35:. «+JaJa_» if you can cram 4Tbyte of RAM into stick form i'll be amazed
.:11·13·44:. «+parrot_» That'd be amazing!
.:11·13·50:. «@sgstair» JaJa_; shall I clip that, so we can laugh at it in 5 years? :)
.:11·13·59:. «+JaJa_» sure
… I guess we’ll see :)
I finally broke down and bought an Xbox 360 – I’ve been wanting one for a very long time now and I finally had a good opportunity and excuse to get one :)
No, this doesn’t mean my projects are going to go slower – I probably won’t play it a whole lot – right now things are moving slow because my work is taking a lot of my time and I haven’t worked out a nice balance to keep all my projects moving smoothly yet.
Anyway, if you’d like to add me as a friend on xbox live, please feel free, my username/gamertag is ‘sgstair’.
If you do add me, I’ll look forward to seeing you online.
Okay, finally I’m getting around to posting some pictures and stuff here.
Coming back from E3 was just tiring, and since then I’ve been busy, but here’s what I’ve got.
On wednesday (as reported earlier) I stood in the line to see the Wii – that was the highlight of the show; the line itself was pretty interesting (they had talking posters, namely large tvs with a videoconferencing system so it looks like it’s a talking poster or something) – the line was very long, about 2.5 hours or so before I managed to get in, but it was a lot worse on other days (up to 5+ hour wait on friday, according to nintendo’s E3 media.
I of course watched almost all of the games, and most of them look really interesting – the games I played were the warioware game, excitetruck (which is a heck of a lot of fun), and a stupid dragonballz game (just to see how they did the only apparent fighting game there – unfortunately it was not very good.)
I have a number of videos taken from my camera (640×480, 15fps with no sound) that I will try to convert and upload in the near future, just for the heck of it :)
Besides the Wii, there were a few other things that caught my attention…. Here they are listed in no particular order:
Gametap was doing a live space-ghost interview, which was pretty neat (additionally, I’ve also seen a particularly funny interview with peter more – but you have to ignore the crazy laughing in the background :P)
nVidia had seating, which we used frequently and watched some of their presentations (such as microsoft flight simulator X, and many others) – the two things I saw there that really stuck out at me though were the Robo-blitz demonstration (looks like a ton of fun) and Timeshift (which looks interesting due to somewhat unique gameplay)
I also saw geometry wars for x360 for the first time (heh heh) – color me uninformed ;)
Well, I still very much want to get an xbox 360, this just strengthens that desire.
Besides all that I visited most/all of the other booths and wasn’t incredibly impressed… I even played lumines 2 and didn’t like it very much :P
I’ll post some pictures now, and will work on converting my videos sometime…. maybe this weekend? dunno.
Bored…….
bored bored bored.
I’ve managed to see all the stuff I want to, and my feet hurt too much to just wander around aimlessly ;)
Still haven’t met many people, and didn’t take many pictures today; maybe tomorrow will be better in both of those regards.
anyway. still looking into why my images aren’t working how I think they should, I hope to get them working soon, or at least once I get home (saturday evening) – ya I know I’m late, I want to post the pictures anyway. Yesterday with the Wii was thrilling though, and I still can’t think of anything else.
Ok… there were a *few* interesting things I saw today ;)
The gametap booth had a *live* space ghost coast to coast interview, hehe – that was really entertaining, I’d imagine it’s somewhat downloadable somewhere if you want to see it.
Well, stay tuned, tomorrow I’ll update my blog with more info tomorrow.
Augh, well – I’m back from the first day of E3 in one piece… or at least I seem to be – don’t quite feel that way.
Started out the day with some wandering in Kentia hall, got to meet a few people I previously knew.
Then went over to west hall, saw the nintendo booth (it was REALLY neat), and the other fun booths over there (stopped by the sony booth briefly and some of the others…)
Then over to south hall, to see nvidia, microsoft, and another load of others who I don’t care to name yet.
Then I went back to the nintendo booth to wait in the Wii line… :)
After about 2-2.5 hours, I managed to get in – it really is amazing.
I do have pictures and videos that I will try to post later, but for now, my feet feel like they’re about to fall off and I don’t feel like doing anything else.
Keep watching, I’ll update this blog entry in a few hours.
(oh, another side note, there are apparently no DS wifi demos this year…. nintendo’s getting smart ;) )
(Update: Ha! I got some images loaded :) – I still have a bundle of gameplay videos (really bad quality, heh) that I need to convert & upload.)
(Gah, images still not working how I want, will update later -_- now sleep….)
Ah E3… I’m going to E3 this year, it will be my second time :)
That being said, I’m more than happy to meet any of you people who aren’t too scared to meet me. I’ll be staying at a hotel a few blocks from the LACC, and I’ll be hanging out in the Nintendo booth monopolizing their machines quite a bit I think… I’ll probably be wearing either a dswifi shirt, or a thinkgeek “reverse engineer” shirt, and should be pretty easy to spot ;)
If you do want to meet up with me or anything, feel free to email me (see here for the address) or just leave a comment in this thread – I’m not planning much at the moment so I’m more than happy to meet anyone who wants to bug me.
(I might post a picture later but for now I’ll spare you ;)
Ok, I’m proud to now publicly unveil My Wiki
This wiki has been put into place to make it easier for me to create and maintain documentation on a number of subjects that I have worked on in the past and will work on in the future. This wiki is a little different than normal, only a select few will be allowed to edit main pages but anyone is free to modify the discussion pages and provide feedback :)
As of right now there is very little on the wiki, but it’s going to expand very rapidly soon, as I transcribe my current documentation into it.
(And for those of you waiting for the ds wifi lib, it is still coming, but it’s not ready yet.)
*Stephen hides in his dark corner of the internet*
Yeah, I know, I’ve promised a new wifi lib soon and it hasn’t materialized yet….
FYI, progress is being made (often on a daily basis) but I’ve promised other things lately too, so my time is being quite thoroughly eaten.
Here’s hoping for a release soon though :)
*hides from the internets*
Anyone want to be linked on my page? I’ve got a few places in mind to add, but if you’d like to be linked here and aren’t presently, please let me know in a comment :)
The fine print: posting your link here doesn’t guarantee that I’ll add it (Muahaha), and doesn’t guarantee that other people won’t add it (well, I guess this is obvious) – that said I probably will add most/all of the links posted.