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Submission + - Website Emulates Amiga OS

Submitted by cyclomedia on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @07:04AM

cyclomedia writes: The Decibel Kid — the "AudioVisual Artist" responsible for last summer's Ipswich Zelda Map — has unveiled his new website. Modelled on Amiga OS it supports chaning the wallpaper, window dragging, resizing, minimising and that z-index shuffle button too. The mobile site is a completely different beast, modelling itself as a low-res LCD display.

Submission + - How to manage development when requirements change but deadlines do not? 1

Submitted by cyclomedia on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:10AM

cyclomedia writes: Over a number of years my company has managed to slowly shift from a free for all (pick a developer at random and get them to do what you want) to something resembling Agile development with weekly builds. But we still have to deal with constant incoming feature changes and requests that are expected to be included in this week's package. The upshot is that builds are usually late, not properly tested and developers get the flak when things go wrong. I suspect the answer is political but how do we make things better? One idea I had was that every time a new request comes in — no matter how small — the build gets pushed back by 24 or even 48 hours. I'd love to hear your ideas or success stories. (Unfortunately quitting is not an option)

Submission + - UK town of Ipswich remodelled as Zelda level

Submitted by cyclomedia on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:16AM

cyclomedia writes: Switch Fringe is a relatively new not-for-profit annual music and arts festival in the UK town of Ipswich, and this year's programme features a full page map of the town with details about each venue. Unlike most other maps this one is in the form of a Zelda level. This is in part due to this year's theme "Reimagining Ipswich", that PixelH8 is coming out of semi-retirement to play a gig during the preceedings and possibly due to the fact that the map's designer — The Decibel Kid — spent too much time playing Zelda on a Gameboy Color during the first Web bubble.

Submission + - On the hunt for a cheap SubNoteBook

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cyclomedia

on Sunday May 18, 2008 @09:39AM

cyclomedia writes: "I'm looking to buy a subnotebook. For those who think that this form factor was created by the Asus EEE (As seemingly does wikipedia) it might interest you that the current forerunner in my search is a 190MHz,64MB,640x480 256 colour beastie known as the Psion Netbook circa 2001-ish. Basically i have a desktop, a server and an xbox and so truly only want it for surfing, email and the odd bit of SSHing home on weekends away. The aforementioned Psion is, however, of the StrongArm processor variety, which nudges it down on the desireability meter, but the fact that there exist wifi cards for it's 16-bit PCMCIA slot does score it extra points. So, anyone here got any suggestions of what to look out for on ebay? So long as I can play Doom II on it too... that is."

Submission + - How to get (a board game) published?

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cyclomedia

on Monday January 22, 2007 @05:37AM

cyclomedia writes: "I've been dedicating a little of my Nerd Time to devising a strategy board game, pitched somewhere between Checkers and Chess but probably not as deceptively complex as Go. The next step in my plan is to see if I can actually create a prototype made of coins, stickers and cardboard and to attempt to teach the rules to my wife (Trek fan, hence the marriage). If I get past that stage ok then what do i do? Presumably I can't just show up at Hasbro with my jerry rigged setup and expect an enthusiastic response. Without giving too much away I can tell you that there's a nerd factor within the game itself, possibly leaning the possibility of marketing towards the Games Workshop end of the spectrum, but without the 80-sided dice and Orcs."

Submission + - Tolkein Enterprises to film Hobbit with Jackson?

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cyclomedia

on Thursday November 23, 2006 @08:35AM

cyclomedia writes: "TheOneRing.Net has a new scoop on the ongoing Hobbit Movie saga, sourced from elbenwald.de. Apparently the rights to make the Hobbit film fall back to Saul Zaentz "next year". He claims that, under their stewardship, The Hobbit will "definitely be shot by Peter Jackson". For the whippersnappers amongst you: Mr. Zaentz is the head honcho of Tolkein Enterprises, which originally acquired exclusive rights to productions of the LOTR and Hobbit material in 1976, prior to overseeing the Bakshi animated version of LOTR."

Submission + - How would you usurp the web browser

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cyclomedia

on Monday November 20, 2006 @09:56AM

cyclomedia writes: "I've been thinking about this for a while now, and a recent article posturing about Web 3.0 brought forward some other peoples' suggestions in the form of what should be next. Everyone here knows that HTML, Javascript and HTTPRequest are not the tools for building feature-rich interactive networked applications, but that doesn't stop Google, Microsoft and others from trying their damndest to use them to build office suites and such like. As one project that puts itself forward puts it: we need to replace the Document Browser with an Application Browser. So my question, intended to get the ball rolling, is: What type of platform would you like to see delivering the "true" Web 2.0 in the not too distant future?"

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