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Home August 19th, 2005 I know I haven't updated this a lot lately, but things have been going on. I finally got registered for school. I've been working on the STKGL class, trying to add support for Textures before releasing and updated version. It's not going well though. Emula-Menu is a dud right now considering that it doesn't work when you try to load the emulators it saves to the path that you last located to. Other than that, I'm just playing around today before I go for my final senior year of High School. Check back soon. August 16th 2005 There are a lot of things I need to work on this site. Like the main page is supposed to be limited to 5 days of news. As you can see there is six. I'll be updating the site for a News button so that you can read archives of news. I have some exciting information. I updated my program I made 2 years ago (Emula-Menu) to version 2.15. See the projects section to download it. Also, I'm not done yet. I've made a STKGLCAM class that will help with making a first person camera. It's awesome. I've worked on STKGL so that its now version 0.1.5. Be sure to watch for more updates. August 14th 2005 STKGL hasn't been updated yet, but I have added (using the same DrawTriangle function) Quads, Lines, and Points. The only one I am missing is GL_LINE_STIPPLE, but I'm considering changing the function to where you pass what you want to call, such as GL_QUADS or that. Think its a good idea? Other than that, I'm trying to get a camera working so I can implement it for the class. I'm looking towards using a tutorial off of http://nehe.gamedev.net that talks about Quaterions (is that spelled right?). Right now I'm going to google it and search up on it. If you already have a camera class that would be easy to implement, I'll give you credit in the class source - along with any projects that are created. Another project I'm going to start on again is Emula-Menu. I'm going to bring it to version 2.10 so that some code fixes are made and you can rename the buttons. Sound easy? I tried it before, but it didn't work. I'm not going to post the source on it. Want to try Emula-Menu? Head over to Utilities page 2 on http://www.emulator-zone.com. Good luck, and happy coding. August 12th, 2005 I moved the website over to a better server, GeoCities. They have probably one of the best web hosting solutions available out there. I was considering using FortuneCity and paying, but I'd rather stick with GeoCities. I haven't been able to work on the code, but I'm going to add a function call to the class called DrawTriangleStrip(model *); Instead of using Triangles I'll build some model's using Triangle strips which are faster for most cards. I'll add a function for Quads. I'll improve on how to load colors so it supports alpha, change a few things around to help. August 11th, 2005 UPDATED! I just got the Engine to work a lot better. Instead of moving it up to 0.0.5a, I moved it up to 0.1.0b. Huge things have been added. It's awesome, use a standard txt file or sk1 file, type in the cords of triangle vertices, type in how many vertices you have, and a few other things and BAM, there you go. I told you I'd try to keep the website updated as much as possible and so far I am. I've been working on the STKGL.H file but things are skipping around. I think I'll have version 0.0.5a by Saturday, but I'll post it on sunday cause of all the close shifts I'm working at work. If you have any questions or comments go to the contact page and contact me. I'll have to see if PHP scripts will work on the tripod website. The sit may be moving to another server like geocities, considering their banners don't overlap like Tripod's does. Good luck you guys. August 9th, 2005 Ok, I'm putting forth an effort to keep this site updated. I'm thinking about just changing the whole look using Dreamweaver on my Mac. I've got some exciting news though. I'm adding a Projects section to the navigation bar. I've started working on a C++ class entity to help program OpenGL Programs. Right now I've developed a way to load Model Files using a simple text file that only has numbers in it. I'm going to post it tonight. Right now the entire thing is 0.0.1a. I've been on an OpenGL kick. Visit http://nehe.gamedev.net to learn OpenGL. You can use a Mac, PC, Solaris OS, Linux, etc. with OpenGL. Look for new sections. August 7th, 2005 Today I started up a new site using a Tripod template. Here you'll find specific information relating to different OS's: mainly including (but not limited to) Mac OS X, Windows, and FreeDOS. Topics related to scripting and programming. Books that I recommend reading to learn about various topics. How-To FAQ's to do some cool things such as, making a webpage look like your windows screen, complete with clickable start bar that actually shows up. Yes it's cheap and only works with how you work on it. I'll try to find some tools on both PC and Mac that you can use to make things a bit easier for all of these items. I'll review specific Open Source programs, freeware, and shareware programs. I'll try to update this site everyday. If you would like to join the mailing list, see the form at the bottom of the page. Thank you.
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Updated August 9th 2005