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Zune Pong v 0.7 With Improved Physics and Graphical Updates

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

The Pong has been updated once again. Check out the Zune page to get the latest version: http://amir.shah.org/index.php/zune-pong/

Zune Pong v 0.6 With Zune 30 Support

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I've fixed the support for the Znue 30 in multiplayer along with some bugs and other small gui stuff. Head over to the Zune Pong page to get it: http://amir.shah.org/index.php/zune-pong/

Zune pong v 0.5 With Graphical Updates

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Improved graphics Improved layout NOTE: Untested Multiplayer! May throw an exception! Known Bugs: – Ball still rides paddle – Ball does not speed up Head to the Zune Pong page to download it: http://amir.shah.org/index.php/zune-pong/

Zune Pong v 0.4 With Musical Score!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Alright, I've finally added music! Music starts up when the game loads. Press left (or down if you're holdin the Zune up/down) to change the song. Also, some of the kinks with the wireless multiplayer are worked out. Known bugs: - Ball still rides paddle -Sometimes the joining Zune throws an exception. In these ...

Zune Pong v 0.3 With Wireless Multiplayer!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I've done it! I've made multi-player Pong I believe this is the first public, non-Microsoft multilayer Zune game. Awesome! Its still pretty buggy and the onscreen instructions lie. Here how to make it work: Load up the game On host: Click play, then back On Client: Click play, then the ZunePad Host will start playing fist ...

Zune Pong v 0.2!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I've fixed up my pong game from last night. New updates: Better graphics Better collision detection "Dumber" AI Scores (game still lasts forever) Menu (Note: 2p has no function yet) New version up. Adds support for Zune 30s \>Download<

Zune Pong!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

On Thursday Microsoft released XNA 3.0 CTP for early Zune programmers. I took the oppertunity to bring everyone's favorite game to the device. Its not complete (I need to wake up fairly early to go to a study session. Exams are next week) but I plan on updating it and ...

Watch Star Wars in ASCII

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Ever wanted to watch George Lucas' famed Star Wars reconstructed through the use of ASCII characters? Open up your terminal and type in this command: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl How awesome is that!

OS X: Unzip Protected Zip

Monday, March 17th, 2008

This weekend I went to the local Botball workshop at UMUC where they gave our team the lego kits and an instructional CD. I head home and pop in the CD only to find that I can't unzip the included Zip file. I suspect that the file is protected (with ...

Walmart Owns Mars

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Walmart happy face found by NASAs Mars reconnoissance orbiter: Oh, and ET says "Hi".