Category : Featured

13 Mar

Patch for ScummVM on NDS

by Marco Mastropaolo

I always loved playing old adventures (specially Day of the Tentacle). And playing them on the Nintendo DS is just fantastic. But, the current version of ScummVM has a scaling scheme (to adapt 320×200 adventures to the 256×192 screens) which is quite odd – you can choose a dynamic scaled version or a 200% scaled [...]

08 Nov

Shell extensions in C# and/or VB.NET

by Marco Mastropaolo

Update: .NET 4.x and later should allow different .NET versions to be loaded side-by-side in the same process, so the argument below probably does not stand anymore (if your extensions use .NET 4.x or later). It’s still dangerous waters in my opinion. —   Please, repeat with me. I WILL NEVER WRITE SHELL EXTENSIONS IN [...]

21 Oct

Unbelievable Optimization X

by Marco Mastropaolo

This is something which happened some years ago. There was some-project I won’t name(*) (let’s just say it was a server emulator of some popular MMORPG), with their development forum. I found a post suggesting an optimization they were going to implement. Basically the file saving phase was something like this : if (someplayer->hp != [...]