Monday, April 28, 2008

Are Classic Arcades Back Again?

When I was a kid, genre of video games only new. I remember having a TV hooked up to the console with rotary-type joysticks. You can play only what they call " Tennis & quot; or shoot a white rectangle with lighting gun. That is about it: no fantasy graphics, no sounds other than " signal & quot;, rather than color. The great cause of these games that they do not have any violence, and they do not have the capacity to harm TV.
Things changed significantly in the issuance of gaming computers, such as the Amiga, Commodore, and the ZX Spectrum. They are all kinds of arcade games in color and with what was at the time, good sound. These computers have been very limited in their movement and reproduction of graphics, so there are not subjected to violence. In addition, there are no computer viruses in those days, so that all the game was safe for play.
Now I am quite too old for this kind of entertainment, but let& 39;s face it: our children love to do computer games. In modern computers capable of hyper-realistic graphics and high-definition audio entertainment possibilities are unlimited. The children now have a much wider choice than we did at that time. In fact, they have so many choices that parents should be warned: there is simply too much meaning and explicit violence in the country. I am cautiously when it comes to games My children play.
Many companies trying to get children& 39;s time with computer video games. So much so that they even offer their games for free! But they always have good intentions smoothly entertaining your children, or they have their own intentions? Dare I say evil intentions?
That valid question, despite the false names and entertainment theme. I worked perfectly fact that computer games free to bring good profits of these companies, sometimes more than they pay for games. This is business, after all. What I do mind, however, is harming my children with things that are inappropriate for them. Why would these companies care about my children, in any case? They often plaque with my computer, that children must fight in these games: the evil stuff. I am referring to spyware. Unfortunately, it is too easy to get children to download and install some games, which will refer to your computer with advertising adult gaming sites. I also stealing passwords or account update my Web search results I think, is that many products, as a rule, spyware do.
So What can I do to protect children from the game, I do not think are appropriate and myself from malicious programmes and other threats bundled with games designed for children?
I use verification sources games.
One from these sources is Play My City www.myplaycity.com. Their games are suitable for my children. The company does not have a single game on its web site, several dozen, this violence or profanity. This is certainly good for my children. These games are also good for me because they do not install any unwanted " additional services & quot; on my computer. There are days of the great classical arcades back?
For example, I recently tried their last game, Demon in the Doomsday. In his cartoon graphics very recalls the arcades of old days. The script is nice and suitable for children: they are designed to fight the scourge. No blood, not be subjected to violence, and children play in a good guy, and deal with witches and ghosts. It is very encouraging, I would like to say, after viewing some modern 3D arrows. Added pleasure to touch this contest: children with the highest scores will be able to load them on the Internet and compete with their counterparts.
After all days of classic arcade games here. At least, with games made www.myplaycity.com.
Here it is: you can get Demon in the Doomsday free http://www.myplaycity.com/demons doomsday



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Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Friday, April 18, 2008

x64 for Imaging Purposes: What s the Catch?

Long gone are the times when 64 bit memory addressing was the prerogative of Itanium, SPARC, RISC processors, PowerPC, etc. Now almost every desktop PC is built on the x86-64 architecture, let alone servers. x64 has become cheap, opening new horizons for a variety of applications. Surely, those who already run (or are about to run) x64 platforms have long-term thinking: taking the pains to migrate to x64 today will pay off manifold in the long run.
Migrating to x64 becomes an especially sensible issue when it comes to image processing. If you haven’t dealt with anything larger than 5000x5000 pixels, you would not probably be reading this article. Otherwise, you might witness your applications throw ‘out of memory’ errors from time to time – and think about lifting the 2-Gb-per-process curse. Install more memory (if necessary) and switch to x64 platform – it’s often just as simple as that. This was essentially the main idea behind porting Graphics Mill to x64 here at Aurigma.
However, the (often seemingly) cumbersome and costly nature of migrating to x64 is often the key factor in saying ‘no’ to the natural solution to the problem. So, developers are forced to find roundabouts for ‘out of memory’ troubles. Some of those ‘remedies’ are highly performance taxing and are fraught with development and debugging implications. These often outweigh the possible benefits. Also, the added development debugging cost would often exceed the cost of migration of an entire farm to x64.
On the other hand, more and more applications and services are ported to x64 and some are native x64 – and those are no longer limited to scientific computing and complex mathematical modeling tasks. In fact, x64 for servers has become an industry standard for quite a while. So, if having a legacy 32 bit application prevents you from switching your IIS permanently to 64 bit, I would reply with a marketer-standard call to action: ‘Think big – go x64!’, or even more pesky – ‘Enlarge your address space now!’.
So, what are the costs of saying bye-bye to ‘out of mem’? For Graphics Mill for .NET, it means replacing a couple of DLLs in the API. If you ask me, I would say it’s certainly worth a try at the least. Eventually, it’s up to you to decide whether to ‘stay x86 and reinvent the page file’ or ‘harness the brute raw power of x64’ (I think I’ll can those two for future use).
About the Author: Max Osokin is currently senior marketing manager at Aurigma Inc., company engaged in delivering world-class products for developers of desktop and web imaging solutions. Being a novice to writing technical articles, he believes that writer s inspiration should always rely on the thorough research of the issues discussed in the article.



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