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Embed MS-DOS games.
We have mention many times the Internet Archive, and how it keeps a database of movies, music, games… specially, MS-DOS games. Well, now it seems it is possible to embed the MS-DOS games into tweets, and yes, into webpages too. So, I use this opportunity to put in one place some of the MS-DOS games I love.
Like Prince of Persia?
I was very bad with the Prince of Persia and never managed to finish it. But I was quite good with the Great Escape, and manage to escape several times (at that point I didn’t knew English at all).
I have to admit that I never played this game to the end until a couple of weeks ago. Gateway is not only a game, but the first novel of the Heechee saga (which I love), written by Frederik Pohl. The game is nice, but quite linear, and at some points it is easy to understand what to do, but in other parts there is no other way around, you need to check a walkthrough.
This one has survived the years and nowadays is still playable in most smartphones…. although, with different names. Enjoy Bust-A-move.
Obviously, any list can’t be complete without Pac-Man.
There are more games, but it will be too much for a single post, so I will finish this small list with a classic. SimCity.
Lego Adeventure Time BMO Raspberry Pi
And here are the videos.
Super Mario Bros.
Star Trek The Original Series vs Borg.
I’m going to watch Into Darkness. And I left you this amateur video of how it could be Kirk (I mean, the original Kirk) against the Borgs… Enjoy!
Chiptunes
This is a short exploration into chiptunes.
Let’s start with this, you will enjoy it. Portal 2 ending theme covered with 8 bit music.
Yes, that’s it, this post is about 8-bit music. Becuase I found a great editor, it’s called Farmitracker.
And what does this program? FamiTracker is a free Windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems. And the most interesting part is it’s NSF-file exporting. That allows music created in this tracker to be played on the real hardware, or even for for use in your own NES-applications. O_O Nice nice!!
To get this program, just go to the downloads webpage and get the source of the latest version. Unzip and install.
And since I’m terrible with music, here you have some tutorials. Enjoy them!
There is a nasty noise during all the video (crappy PC mirophone).
This guy know what he is doing.
The funny thing is that this sounds better than many actual games!!
And the last video.
And now, I gave you a short list of 8-bit composers to inspire yourselves.
Nullsleep. Electronic musician whit many actuations over the world. Not only dedicated to 8-bit covers for games, but have some songs.
RushJet1 His pictures says everything. Has many covers and you can download them in it’s webpage.
Tsu Ryu. Descibed as Electronic/Chiptune musician and cartoonist. doesn’t have music on his webpage, but have a very active youtube channel with nice music, like this.
Jake Kaufman. This is a big man in this busines. He has his own Wikipedia page. His webpage is a very interesting blog with many entries. Take one minute or two to check it out.
C-jeff. It’s not the kind of music you will find in games, but it’s nice. he is also one of the founders of
And I’m not sure about what it is, but have things as cool as this two (listen to the tracks).
And this one:
And this one is part of a project called Noise Channel, a radio channel to explore chiptune music.
And that’s all for today. Want more? Here is more!!
Arcadia for Orbiter.
Orbiter… with Hangar Mods, flying the Bebop
Today I bring you a Space Simulator called Orbiter.
Orbiter it’s designed to be an accurate space flight simulator, to recreate space misions, discover new things about space flight and… have fun with the add ons.
Orbiter is free and you can download it from it’s webpage. Unfortunately, it’s only for Windows, but it’s ok. Once downloaded, just unzip it and install.
Running it is quite easy, maybe the only thing a little bit difficult is setting up the controls (and fly of course).
This is how you can take of with the Space shuttle. Awesome! Thinking about the requirements of the system, they did an amazing job. I mean, my netbook doesn´t have a dedicated graphic card, it runs on the main core, and it can run this simulator!
And… ladies and gentlemen… you can simulate from take off to space.
Voilá!
Ok, now the difficult part (hey I have just take the space shuttle to the space, what can be more difficult than that?).
Setting up the controls is the most crazy thing I have ever seen, because, you need to edit a file. go into orbiter folder and look for a file named keymap.cfg. right click on it and open with notepad. Here is the complete keymap for the simulator. And here you can change the keymap configuration. Don´t desperate and just try until you manage to get all the keys you need. It depends on what spaceship you are going to control, but if you have used a fligth simulator before, you realize soon what keys are enough and what you need for each ship.
Here i have marked the main controls. The control of the ships should be the same in air and in the vacum of space, but sometimes the controls change according to the add-on.
After fixing the controls, you need to fix the sound, because by default it is deactivated, or has not sound module at all. To get the sound module, go to Dan webpage:
Download the sound module and install it. And after installing it, don’t forget to enable it in “modules”.
Hmmmm ok ok, So now we have it running. Let’s go for the big isues. What about a star destroyer?
Let’s get some add ons for the game. And the best place to get them is Orbit Hangar mods.
There is more mod webpages on the Orbiter webpage, but today we are only going to use Orbit Hangar.
To install a new ship just go to the ship description. In my case I’m going to pick a P-38 Lightning, one of the most beautiful planes ever made. (I have fligth this one in all kind of simulators and it’s always smooth, fast and agile, a deadly configuration).
Once you have downloaded the zip file, open it and add the files and folders to orbiter folder. Just fit each folder with the same folder and it will be ok. next time you run the program, the new plane will appear on the list.
I have to admit it, the model is not quite good… but don’t worry, the others are better. How about… some ships from Cowboy Bebop!
I’m going to land with the Swordfish into the earth, like one of the episodes…. Maybe on Sahara desert. Note: Ctrl+D to undock the Swordfish and F3 to select ship in the simulation.
(Actually trying to reenter earth with the Swordfish is very tricky and maybe impossible with the realistic simulator).
So… what else do they have in the hangar?
Well… just the Yamato with the Wave Motion Gun and the Wave Motion Engine.
you can find it here.
And check this Minecraft model. Awesome!
Ok, so it’s enough of anime. Time for classics…
How about some Star Trek Ships? (only cool ones)
Enterprise TOS. The inertial moments of the ship are not correct, but there is many other mods about this ship, you can try another one
Klingon cruiser
And don’t forget to check the complete list of related Star Trek mods (17 pages of mods).
Star Wars (only cool ones also)
The first one must be the X-wing of course.
And then the Millenium Falcom.
Also add some Tie Fighters to have some fun…
And check the complete list of Star Wars ships. They have the Death Star so…
But don’t think that big is the best. What about dropping some Clones? You can use this LAAT and it’s also funny.
They have also some ships from Star Gate, but since I don’t know about them, I just mention it.
And about mentioning things, I have to say that they have this cool ships from 2001 Space Oddysey
Hmmm but Space Odyssey is ok… but how about some Sci-fi Terror? Something like… Alien.
Try the Sulaco. From Alien 2, or the Alien pack.
Hey. I know that many people will not like this, but… Feel like Clint Eastwood on the film Firefox and… think in russian.
You can get the here the Firefox.
The next one is from Michio Kaku “Sci-Fi Science- Building a Starship”. Working on matter-anti mater anhiquilation.
Enough? No? Try something complete different, like…
The Solar Sailer from TRON. Pick it here.
EVE Online Ship Sizes.
More ship sizes. Don’t miss our other post Sci-fi ships size. Which is the bigger?
This time from the EVE universe.
Was it enough for you? Not for me… fortunatley, on the EVE Online wepage they have a spaceship explorer. So… enjoy looking at the ships!
25 +1 Chrome Experiments
Today I want to point you towards a initiative leaded by Google which has some time but not enough publicity. Chrome Experiments.
Basically Chrome Experiments are small applets to show up the powerfull of Chrome web-browser against other browsers. (If we talk about running animations or programs inside the browser, Chrome is the fastest, but this doesn’t it is the best of the browsers).
So, after a survey over all the experiments I bring you my list of best 25. (Click on images to go to experiment description and launch experiment from there).
25. Growing flowers. It looks beautiful but a little annoying because you can’t stop the growing plant to take a picture of it.
24. A Calamar? Seems to be alive and can be controlled with mouse. Can get very nice configurations, but they are quite difficult to achieve.
23. This is a very good one. It’s a MIDI player with animation to see what is playing. And also has a wide list of MIDI files to play around.
22. Particles dancing around and making a heart. Sorry, but I respect love above all the things, and this one is perfect for making a smile on your loved ones.
21. This is actually very good idea. weather forecasting using tweets. (Inspired by xkcd idea maybe?).
20. This one reaches the computation limit of the browser, but it’s quite nice game.
19. A whole island! The technology to show this island in the browser is incredible. Read the info! It uses a dataset with 122880 x 122880 pixels. About 56GB of info. This technology allows to handle that big amount of data and show only the needed data each time.
18. This one uses a genetic algorithm technique to generate random faces from a set of faces. Each iteration the user picks the best face of all. In this way you can actually create or “grow up” a face.
17. Cellular designs. Make cellular-like designs and print them into 3D. (I can’t run it in this computer, but I can show you how it is).
16. This one is really funny, a lathe machine. You just pick material and start working with it. (I wonder if there is a game with different kinds of machines that actually simulates a workshop).
15. This one is very very good, but it doesn’t have good examples inside to test it. What it makes is, it takes a GIF (a colection of frames that show an animation) and plot’s them using z coordinate as time. Doing that allows us to actually see the whole evolution of the GIF. If the GIF represent a series of slides of an object, then this experiments allows us to actually reconstruct the object. As long as the examples provided are quite bad, I made this GIF.
Use it inside the experiment to get figures as this one.
I promise to create an amazing GIF for this one as soon as possible. Keep that in mind.
14. ChuClone. Another game. Quite nice, and remember that it is running inside your browser which is a real big challenge.
13. This one uses Turing Reaction-diffusion equations to create patterns in a fluid simulation. Remember that this equations are actually used to describe systems like the cheetah skin patterns or the propagation of spikes in the neural system.
Two years ago, I studied the Fitzhugh-Nagumo system for Neural Activity. Here are my videos… I think that now I should improve it. :/
Here a link to an applet for recreating the same experiment I did.
12. Recursion toy is another L-System. They are quite easy to build with object oriented programming, so that’s why there is so many of them, but even whith many of them around, not all are interesting at all. This one is cool because the number of parameters you can adjust. Check it out.
In this case I also have one myself, but you can’t adjust anything, sorry.
11. This one is just artistic, don’t allow any interaction, but it’s ambientation it’s great.
10. The next experiment creates networks of artists using last.fm API. I use to look for Freddie Mercury, and the result looks good. Maybe some connections should be stronger/weaker than the graph shows, but it is ok.
9. Another experiment about music. this time, you can draw a sound. It’s not big deal, but it’s an interesting idea.
8. Not sure what is this, but has very nice effects and also they interact into each other.
7. A multiuser sketchboard. Unfortunately It was disconnected when I tried to log, but you can see at the blog different creations made at the sketch.
6. This is one of the most beautiful games (and addictive) I have played. The objetive is to build the longest path. Try to complete the board, and then try to beat yourself. Also it’s one of the most refined experiments because it has no bugs.
5. The next one needs a good computer to run properly, but it’s amazing, and will make you stare at it for a long time. This kind of art is bringin new perspectives and I’m completely sure that in the next years we are going to see a really big revolution in the art and how we interact with it. It’s going to be more like a game or like a living and changin being than a static thing to look at.
4. I think that this bomb gaming experiment was very popular, so probably you already know about it, but just in case, I put it here.
3. We had drawing music and collaborative painting. Why not both at the same time? Plink. (not sure if it is still working).
2. It’s more difficult than you think, that’s all that I have to say. You have to create a chain reaction to destroy all the balls before your explosions fade away.
1. As I told you, love is number one for me. This experiment will track the tweets in the selected country generating a Love/Hate tree. This is what i get.
And….
0. 100,000 Stars. A visualization of the solar system neighbourhood. Enjoy all of them and keep searching for beauty and new experiences!
the Brick In the Sky 