What to do when your car alarm remote dies and nobody sells the right battery

The other night, my flatmate Dan's car alarm remote died, and we couldn't find anybody who was open that stocked the right size battery - we needed a 12 volt A27 size battery, the best we could get was an A26, which is too fat to fit in the remote. So here's a couple of … Continue reading What to do when your car alarm remote dies and nobody sells the right battery →

Learning DirectX and C++: Step 3, Timing and Text

I've pondered, for a while, on the merits of me writing out every lesson I learn on my journey to become a game programmer, and I think that the HOWTO format is not going to be sustainable. So, from now on I'll be jotting down some notes, and some key points, but I'll be dispensing … Continue reading Learning DirectX and C++: Step 3, Timing and Text →

Learning DirectX and C++: Step 2, Initialise DirectX

In order to make the most simple use of DirectX we must set up the required infrastructure. This is as follows: A swap chain (at least two areas of memory, one for drawing into, one for displaying to the screen). A RenderTargetView (a reference to the area of memory from the swap chain for drawing … Continue reading Learning DirectX and C++: Step 2, Initialise DirectX →