Christmas is here...at work

I’ve just been pressganged into putting up the Christmas decorations at work. Lots of sticky tape and paper clips were used in creating a winter wonderland. Careful planning was used to cause maximum inconvenience to taller members of staff… Ho Ho Ho :)

 

 

Virgin Atlantic Challenge on a Raspberry Pi

I can now die a happy man. After a bit of fiddling I finally managed to get the game I wrote back in 1986 to run on my Raspberry Pi. The game is “Virgin Atlantic Challenge” and you play the part of Mr B. Not a great game but good to see it running again on hardware I couldn’t have dreamt of way back then.

VNC running on a Raspberry Pi

Having a shortage of monitors around the house, I decided it would be easier to run VNC on my Raspberry Pi and connect to it remotely. I had some fun giving it a fixed IP address and amending my DHCP server to exclude this value. It took a little while to get everything to boot correctly and auto start the VNC server but I got there in the end. Here is a screenshot of the VNC client running on my Windows 8 laptop. If anyone wants some advice on how I set this all up, let me know and I’ll blog the settings etc.

Sateon Access Control

The company I work for has just released a video for the application I write. Looks pretty slick and not a line of Delphi to be seen :)

http://vimeo.com/46751097

Women at EuroGamer

It was also nice to see that there were women at EuroGamer :)

EuroGamer Expo 2012

Just back from a fun day at EuroGamer in London. Loads of unreleased games to play as well as some old classics in the retro zone. Seeing manic miner playing on a real ZX Spectrum brought back memories of attending the "LET" computer show back in the 1980's. Things are a bit more hi-tech these days but still lots of fun.

 

 

I'm doing my "where's wally" impression. Can you spot me ?



Windows 8

I am now running Windows 8 on a laptop. I can’t say I was impressed with the upgrade installer and the new UI is not very intuitive. I guess it’ll take a bit of getting used to but all the admin stuff seems hidden away. Probably great with a touch screen but with a mouse it’s a right pain. Maybe there are some keyboard shortcut keys? Need to investigate after I get Delphi running :)