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Game On: The history of video games exhibition at ACMI
by Matt on May.29, 2008, under Rantings
On thursday I went to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to check out the Game On exhibition.
According to their website “The Game On exhibition has thrilled more than a million players of all ages from around the world.”.
Most of my old favourites were there including Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time [Nintendo 64], 007: GoldenEye [Nintendo 64], Sonic the Hedge Hog [Sega MegaDrive], and DigDug [Arcade].
The most popular of all the games were the four XBox 360s setup in a multiplayer square shape all playing Halo 3 on 32″ HD screens, and the two nintendo Wii’s connected to 50″ Plasma screens, playing Wii Sports: Tennis and Mario & Sonic Olympics.
Some of the highlights of the exhibition were the top ten gaming consoles of all time - which included the PlayStation, Game Boy, Atari, Commodore 64 and the Commodore Amiga. They had a dozen fully working arcade machines with games from asteroids to Dig Dug to Ms Pacman to Street Fighter and a sample of 20+ different fully working hand-held gaming consoles including the Nintendo DS, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance.
Connected to a 3 metre projector screen in the centre of the exhibition was a fully functional Mechwarrior cockpit. The whole system is quite complicated in that you are required you to flick 5 switches to engage the system, then you had to wait for the onscreen power guages to reach at least 75% before you can start the ignition. The inverse aim joystick on the 100-ton war machine also made shooting difficult.
My favourite stall at the exhibition was the original storyboard from the development of the Grand Theft Auto 3 game. The wall featured a detailed family tree of all of the missions and 200 lines of the source code used for when a vehicle blows up.
The exhibition is being held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in federation square, Melbourne until Sunday the 13th July. The exhibition is open from 10am-7pm every day and till 9pm on thursday nights. Full Price is $15 and Concession card holders pay only $10.
You can find out more information about the exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image website.
CP2420 project
by Matt on May.28, 2008, under Art/Graphics
To all of the peeps out there doing CP2420, here is my project from 2006 for you to check out.
Facts:
53 Seconds of Computer Animation
4 hours rendering time for the final version
24+ hours rendering time total
Rendering on a Pentium 3.0Ghz w/HT, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB machine
I apologise for the terrible production quality, here it is:
One for the Mac Guys
by Matt on May.17, 2008, under Rantings
The recent charity dinner for Lead On Cairns that I helped out at, was quite a success.
The night was kept running smoothly by 4 Macs. Two of the macs (an iBook and either a MacBook Pro or a PowerBook) were being run by the sound/lighting guys.
We had a 24″ Aluminium iMac [in the middle of the room] feeding the projector with the great Keynote presentation that I worked on. The keynote presentation on the 24″ iMac was also being controlled by the Apple Remote from the presenters lectern.
I also had my 20″ Aluminium 2.4Ghz iMac [at the back of the room] to use as preparation for my speech. I decided that I would set up an ad-hoc wireless network to send any last minute changes up to the 24″ iMac. Instead of walking back and forth to close and open Keynote.app I set up “Screen Sharing” on the 24″ iMac, and connected to the projector machine from my iMac.
As a side-effect of this setup, I decided to remotely control the slide from MY iMac as a failsafe if the remote didn’t work properly
This method of controlling the presentation proved to be quite successful, considering some of the guest speakers had multiple slides.
For more information about the Lead On Cairns Community Dinner visit leadoncairns.com.au.
Lead On Cairns Website goes live!
by Matt on May.08, 2008, under Rantings
At about 3pm on Friday, the new Lead On Cairns website went live.
I have to thank the few people at cityofcairns.com that helped me to get the website up and running before the Lead On Cairns Community Dinner on the 16th May.
The new website can be found at http://www.leadoncairns.com.au.
Some pages that are worth reading include: the Cairns Youth Projects page and the Lead On Cairns Advisory Committee page.
Suse Linux Not Letting me Log In
by Matt on Jan.12, 2006, under Rantings
After booting up my Sister’s PC yesterday I found that I couldn’t log in to the system. It would accept my password, and it would appear to continue into KDE, but it would just turn back around and give me the login screen again.
My first suspicion was that I had screwed something up when deleting a lock on another file the day before, but realised that i was only on normal User permissions when deleting the lock, so it couldn’t possibly have stuffed anything up.
So i searched for a good 10 minutes on Google and found a site about connecting to an X windows display on a remote machine. In the troubleshooting section it mentioned that your machine would have symptoms identical to those exhibited by my problem, if your /home/user/directory no longer had any free space.
So that was it, I rebooted back into Single User Mode(Fail-Safe Option at Grub Menu) and removed a few movies that were on the Desktop. Then rebooted back into normal mode and it all worked.
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