From the “everybody-knows-that-by-now-but-I-will-announce-it-anyways” department: the Flash Player 7 has been released by Macromedia! It’s a public beta, so it’s not really fit for every user, but developers will surely love it. Remember when I said I’d love to test my slow stuff on the new player? Well, here’s some tests I’ve ran on my computer.

I hate to repeat stuff that’s already out there, but this is just too cool to let it pass. Marcos Weskamp has created a remote driver application in Flash – more information and the application itself here – in which you can remotely drive a small RC car on their office. It’s pretty cool just […]

Old technology never die, it only gets emulated. Anyone remember the ANSi format? The ANSi (with a lowercase “i” – ain’t it 1337?) format was used on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS for short) years ago. If BBSs were the world wide web of the 90s, ANSi screens would be the HTML of the 90s. To […]

After all kinds of tweaking, I’ve finally finished a more or less fast and stable pathfinding algorithm in Flash. It’s a prototype (well, just a function in fact) in which you pass a map, a start point and an end point as parameters and it returns an array containing the best path between the two […]

Now that’s fast. Some weeks ago a new technique for Mode 7 emulation in Flash – or Z-mapping as real programmers would call it – was introduced by PercyPea on a FlashKit forum thread. Now, a full-featured game using a similar technique has been developed and is on testing – here’s the full scope on […]

Someone called “PercyPea” created a thread on the FlashKit forums to show off his MarioKart-style Flash engine – basically, a recreation of the classic SNES trick known as mode 7. It’s mainly a floor texture emulation. What’s impressive about this, though, is that he has achived a pretty impressive speed with a near-perfect visual result. […]