I Make You Silky Smooth

Didn’t have a real good sleep last night, I was dreaming about .NET garbage collection optimisations all night after spending about 12 hours yesterday on them. The good news is …

Dirchie Kart – Mushroom Cup 1

Recently I’ve been searching for inspiration to take Dirchie kart to the next level, after helping Fordy with his crazy ROM hacking exercise to extract the graphics from the SNES …

Tempting Fate

Last Friday the poXBox  returned home, so first thing I did was fire up Dirchie Kart which was what it was running when it died. It ran with no hastles …

Dirchie Kart Enemy 0

I Chipped away at this little fella over the weekend, he’s pretty dumb, just runs at you and bumps you around. It’s amazing how the rough texturing come up with …

Dirchie Kart Claims Life

It would seem that the Xbox 360 is not machine enough to handle the technical excellence that is Dirchie Kart! Yes I got the dreaded red ring of death half …

Full Screen WPF App

Another quirk in WPF, apparently <Window Title=”MainWindow” WindowState=”Maximized” WindowStyle=”None”> Is not the same as <Window Title=”MainWindow” WindowState=”Maximized” WindowStyle=”None” ResizeMode=”NoResize” > With the former code, I got a full screen app …

WCF Work Environment

Pick up another monitor the other day to help me with this WCF client server development work I’m doing, one extra screen turned the job from a pain in the …

Cel Shaded Dirchies

I had been holding off doing a full cel shaded effect for Dirchie Kart, it’s been done before and I was hoping to come up with something more original. I …