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Tired and defeated, I am retreating once more from Windows back...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:40:14 -0400

Tired and defeated, I am retreating once more from Windows back to GNU/Linux…

Curse you, Windows!

CURSE YOU!

...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:29:00 -0400

Spectrum White is gone.

Everything just disappeared.

Everything.

Tens of thousands of lines of code, countless hours of time spent working and tirelessly tapping away at little buttons to make little letters and words and symbols appear on the screen…

Literally just vanished without a trace.

All of the files are gone.

I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but they’re gone.

I’ve decided on using the Atari 2600 128-color (NTSC)...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:26:00 -0400

I’ve decided on using the Atari 2600 128-color (NTSC) palette for Spectrum White. It shows a wide range of color and also has a nice amount of tints and shades of primary colors available for use.

I could’ve used the 104-color (PAL) palette, but you can see why I didn’t.
(It’s not very pretty.)

8-Bit Color

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:37:38 -0400

A 256x256x256 cube only uses about 10mB of RAM now, thanks to 8-bit color.

Plus, everything looks legitimately retro now.

Saw this while adding music to my programming playlist and...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:21:34 -0400

Saw this while adding music to my programming playlist and couldn’t stop laughing,

Look, not dead!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:59:53 -0400

Also, I just reduced the amount of RAM a 256x256x256 hollow cube in Spectrum White uses from 3,840 mB to 30 mB.

Which is still way too much.

Happy World Backup Day!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:37:46 -0400

Let’s all procrastinate and not back up our files, making up excuses as to why we don’t have the time for it.

Snake (Spectrum White Demo) Download

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:43:00 -0500

Snake (Spectrum White Demo) Download:

Take her for a spin!

..Just know that this is a very primitive test and that the engine is still in very early stages.

EDIT: The link 404’d. It should be fixed now.

(There was supposed to be a photo here.)

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:29:01 -0500

What luck!

My new laptop was returned in favor of a smaller model.

To make up for the unexpected hiatus, I’ll be uploading a treat in a few hours here.

Speaking of exceptionally handsome… A completely original,...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:10:20 -0500

Speaking of exceptionally handsome…

A completely original, custom lighting engine is making it’s way into Spectrum White, as shown in this little demo here. It’s in a very early stage, and there’s still a large amount of tweaking to be done, but it works!

Huzzah! Debian is installed, working great, and exceptionally...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:08:15 -0500

Huzzah!

Debian is installed, working great, and exceptionally handsome.

A new year, a new computer! Got a Sager NP6165, and I’m...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:04:09 -0500

A new year, a new computer!

Got a Sager NP6165, and I’m loving it so far.

Just repartitioning the hard drive at the moment, and I’ll be back to working on projects soon.

Happy New Years everybody!

Well.

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:49:00 -0500

My computer is fried.
My motherboard is on the fritz, and I don’t have anything to fall back on.

Probably won’t be able to get anything done for at least a week or two, while I await a replacement.

Meh.

Okay, the new Cylynx site is coming along swimmingly.I’m...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:03:38 -0400

Okay, the new Cylynx site is coming along swimmingly.
I’m building it from the ground up in Dreamweaver CS5, and I’m using a TON of javascript to make it look all pretty.

Also, the new Cylynx Software logo.

It’s pretty. :U

Font support and 2D rendering is finally working in Spectrum...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:33:00 -0400

Font support and 2D rendering is finally working in Spectrum White!

Wooooo~!

EDIT: Due to the image quality, you can’t really see how sharp and crisp the size 16 font in the second image is. I assure you, the text is not lying. And yeah, the small orange text at the bottom really does look that bad.

Update #4128361024612098619046103461301

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:25:35 -0400

I may have misplaced a digit or two in the title.

Anyways: The <insert-name-of-game-engine-here> Engine!

…Which you may now refer to as the Spectrum Engine. The Spectrum Engine is the *new* name of Cylynx Software’s in-house game engine. It’s coded completely in Java, and will be powering all of our games after Twilightlicious PHYZIKZ.

I’m working on the engine right now to ease the load on our programmers, mainly so that they don’t have to implement 15-20 lines of extra code every time they want to draw a box on the screen, or render a model orthographically.

Besides making things easier and less repetitive, the Spectrum Engine will also support fonts and text rendering, voxel models, modular models, model animations, 2D animations, save-file formatting/reading, and much more.

The Spectrum Engine is highly modular, allowing much room for expansion in future versions (Spectrum White, Spectrum Blue, Spectrum Red, etc.)

No more walls of text now! Next updates will be much smaller as I work on small projects, make changes to things, implement stuff, etc.

I saw this .gif on Equestria Daily, and just had to do this.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:49:04 -0400

I saw this .gif on Equestria Daily, and just had to do this.

Update #390430281752093850293851029385712093

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:46:00 -0400

Small update time!

The news section on the Cylynx website has been down for a week or two, due to the Cylynx blog on Tumblr going offline.

Why did it go offline?

I have no idea.

A new makeshift news page should be put up soon, and that will serve as the temporary news page while we migrate over to an official doman. (www.cylynx.net) I’ll be purchasing the domain using money from our first ever donation, provided by the kind Nick Pilaitis.

Once the site is up under the new domain, we’ll keep our old layout for a few weeks while we work on coding the site in HTML and JavaScript, so we can ditch Google Sites.

Not that there’s anything wrong with Google Sites. It’s great, really.

More updates coming soon!

Up next: The <unnamed> Game Engine

Sorry for the hiccup in updates! Anyways, next update: GRiID. If you don’t know what GRiID...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:39:04 -0400

Sorry for the hiccup in updates!

Anyways, next update: GRiID.

If you don’t know what GRiID is, it’s Cylynx Software’s next project, after Twilightlicious PHYZIKZ. It’s a retro top-down space trade simulator in which the ship is controlled only by a command line on the ship computer. You’ll take on the role of a young man, who’s just left his home and inherited his father’s old spacship: the Shagwagon. You’ll start small, a lone trader buying and selling goods, doing courier tasks, exploring the galaxy, investing in stocks, upgrading your ship, and eventually starting a company. Upon starting a company, you’ll be able to hire other traders, create routes and caravans, hire escorts to ward off pirates, and upgrade your employee’s ships.

The graphics will be voxel-graphics, running on a simple engine I’m coding in Java. I’m also coding a simple model editor that exports the array of voxels, represented by 0s and 1s, (Or maybe RGBA values, like 255,255,0,255 for a yellow voxel, and 0,0,0,0 for an invisible or non-existant voxel.) so you can implement it directly in your code as a VModel object.

An in-game ship editor that allows you to edit your ship could be a possibility, depending on how user-friendly the simple model editor will be. Also, the implementation of colored voxels will allow for color-coded ships: (Yellow for traders, Green for police, Red for pirates, White for player ships, and Light Blue for employees.) If this is implemented, options for changing the colors, or choosing your company’s color will be implemented as well.

Sorry for the wall of text.

More ~~walls of text~~ updates soon!

Woah

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:36:42 -0400

Sorry if the blog got all wibbly-wobbly for a while, Tumblr detected “suspicious code” in my theme.

Anyways, the Farm^mOS preview video should be up as soon as I get Fraps set up. In the meantime, I’ll start preparing the next few updates on my other projects.