A brief overview on getting started with the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) library in C#
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A sample application demonstrating chemotaxis, in a very simplified fashion.
A new version of our BMFont parsing library has been released.
Thoughts and observations using the Adafruit I2S 3W Stereo Speaker Bonnet for Raspberry Pi over the last week and a half.
How to specify custom committer and author dates when committing to a git repository via the command line, helpful when setting up repositories for historical code.
An article describing how you could add JavaScript script support to your .NET applications via the Jint package.
In a prior post, I described id's WAD format used by classic games such as DOOM and how to read them. This post covers how to write them. As with my first post, this only covers the original WAD format, not the enhanced ones which followed.
In my previous post, I described id's WAD format used by
classic games such as DOOM and how to read them. While
researching the format though, I wasn't 100% sure that I was
extracting lumps properly - the only readable file I'd
discovered was DMXGUS in DOOM1.WAD, and also LICENSE in
DARKWAR.WAD... hardly conclusive.
Armed with the specification from the DOOM FAQ I decided to take a brief segue into decoding the pictures to verify the lumps I was extracting were valid.
WAD "Where's All the Data" files used by DOOM and various other games are simple containers, similar to zip and other archive formats, without additional complexity (such as compression) and data-centric rather than file. This article describes how to read the WAD files used by DOOM, DOOM II, Rise of the Triad and similar games of that area.
The article covers reading of a WAD and extracting its contents
A review of the Argon ONE Raspberry Pi 4 case and my initial experiences with it.