Michael Cook's Place

Grand Theft Auto 4

MBCook — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:50:32 +0000

And so, 37 hours 31 minutes and 23 seconds after he started his journey, Niko Belic went to his apartment in Algonquin and went to sleep. Thus I saved my game for the last time. I really enjoyed Grand Theft Auto. This is the first of the series I have finished, let along getting more than [...]

On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 1

MBCook — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:36:36 +0000

About two weeks ago I finally tried the first episode of Penny Arcade Adventures. On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 1 was pretty good, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Just a few days after I finished it, the next episode was announced to be gold so it should come out soon (hopefully). I [...]

Character Generation, Katakana Rendering

MBCook — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:24:41 +0000

Despite spending more time with Little Cute Display, I’m still unable to get character generation working. Based on the small amount of information I have it should be working. I suspect that either the device just doesn’t support it (possible, I haven’t tested it) or I don’t have enough documentation (my best guess). As part of [...]

LCD: Custom Character Generation

MBCook — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:33:57 +0000

I spent a little time today trying to get custom character generation working, but haven’t had much success. See the Little Cute Display page for more.

Little Cute Display v0.1

MBCook — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:06:59 +0000

I was busy this weekend. I downloaded and beat Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One. I’ll write the review a little later. The other thing I’ve been doing is writing a little driver program in Java to control the PicoLCD that I bought. You can read about it and download the [...]

Braid

MBCook — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:50:09 +0000

I’ve been playing more games recently. I finished Professor Layton, I’ve been back into Team Fortress 2 (thanks to the heavy update), and various other things. One of the games I recently started (and finished) was Braid, the XBLA title. Now there is a demo you can download, but I’m not sure what the point is. [...]

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

MBCook — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:27:37 +0000

I just finished playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It took me just under 10 hours, and I found 113 of the 120 puzzles. I’ve enjoyed adventure games for a long time (back to Day of the Tentacle and other Lucas Arts games, as well as the Phoenix Wright series), but this was an [...]

Human Behavior At The AT&T Store

MBCook — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:09:16 +0000

So I bought an iPhone. I bought it on the 15th from AT&T and I was waiting for them to ship it. It took quite a long time and I know a few friends who got one in the days between then and yesterday by just walking into Apple stores at the right time. I [...]

Down To One Shrimp

MBCook — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:30 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted. I’ve been busy with work, mostly, and a few other things. I noticed this week that I’m down to one little shrimp in my biosphere. This means I must rename him, as I have done each time such a loss has occurred. I am now down to one: Vash The [...]

XBox 360 Clock Update

MBCook — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:40:39 +0000

I emailed Microsoft Support with a bug entry about the clock. They made it very hard to find anywhere to email them, but I did it. A short while later I got back a nice email saying, essentially, “Sorry, and here is how to set the clock.” You can guess how happy I am about that. But [...]