Posted by Greg Walsh on Jan 31, 2008 in
Games,
Random,
Welcome to the Future As I’ve been playing with MythTV, Ubuntu and the like for a year now, I keep coming up with the idea of an open source game console. I’ve figured that someone would have thought of this before, but, I can never find anything on the interweb about it.
My idea is (relatively) simple: come up with a list of hardware and a Linux OS that can play games out to a TV/HDTV/Monitor. The kind of games I’m talking about are the quick arcade games (Extreme Tux Racer), RPG (Westnoth), fighting (Paintown), etc. I’m not sure exactly what games, but, the eventual goal would be for teams and indies to make games that run on the console. Maybe even a way to buy games via digital distribution.
Here’s my guess at what it should have to keep it affordable:
2GHz Processor
256 MB Video card with TV/component/DVI out
Wireless internet
160GB Hard drive
Wireless joysticks-up to four (GUI is controlled by joysticks)
DVD-ROM drive
The OS would need to support all of that and be driven by the joystick.
What am I missing? Again, the point is to create a reference design for people to build it themselves and be able to run certain games. I’m not looking for an MP3 playing, divx-serving PVR set top box. Just a fun way to play some good games while building a computer.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Jan 23, 2008 in
Creative,
Games,
Welcome to the Future This looks like the best use of a Nintendo DS until Final Fantasy Tactics DS comes out. As Susan Arendt wrote on Wired’s Game|Life:
Disney is currently field-testing the use of DS Lites as an interactive tour guide and map for its Magic Kingdom resorts. Most brilliant idea ever? Quite possibly.
Having just come from Disney World, I know how helpful it would have been at the park. A small screen to tell you how to get from Laugh Floor to PotC as quick as possible or where to buy a Rice Krispy treat would have been awesome.
Use Your DS As An Interactive DisneyWorld Tour Guide | Game | Life from Wired.com
Posted by Greg Walsh on Jan 21, 2008 in
Creative,
Nice The episode in Port Deposit Maryland aired last night. My co-workers and I went up and helped on Day 4. I was on the team that built the plane. This is a link to the project. BTW, the thumbtacks as rivets…that was my idea. So was moving the flight sim gear down. The designer wanted the screens to be up by the windshield but I told him it was too cramped and the kid would get eye strain.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – Extreme Makeover Home Edition – Projects – ABC.com
Posted by Greg Walsh on Jan 7, 2008 in
Random After 10 years of using a product, you can still learn something…this helped me today with a rather dumb Flash problem.
How to Get Flash AS2 to Display Italicized HTML Text | rabidGadfly
