Archive for September, 2008

CleanMem

I just read about a program called “CleanMem” on gHacks.net, it’s a little program (36kb) that reduces the amount of memory that running programs use. There are lots of programs out there that claim to do the same thing that work by filling your memory, forcing stuff to be moved out and into a file [...]

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

MySQL auto-timestamping triggers

I used to be dead against things like triggers… mainly because I hated coding them (and SQL) back when I learnt Oracle PL/SQL at college, and I’ve always been a “bare-minimum, must-be-backward-compatible, code-it-yourself” programmer… but now I’ve decided it’s just much easier to use them, and it’s not my fault if people refuse to upgrade [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

HOW TO: Switch back to the “old” Facebook

1. Go to: http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2345053339
2. Click “Go to Application”
3. Click “Allow”
3. Go to: http://apps.new.facebook.com/?fbnew_opt_out=1

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Hypn’s QFG2VGA Beard Hack

I wrote a hack that lets you keep selling the Whirling Dervish’s beard to Keapon Laffin in the remake of Quest for Glory 2, like you could do in the original version of the game (it was a bug). It’s probably really buggy, and might crash your game and/or corrupt your save game(s) so use [...]

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Quest for Glory (fan) art

There’s a thread on the Quest for Glory 2 remake’s forum dedicated to fan art - which I saw today for the first time. One of the forum members, by the name of “Lady Pyro”, has some incredible sketches that are definitely worth checking out.
My two favourite are below, along with coloured in versions by [...]

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Google Chrome

So Google have released their own browser, called “Chrome” - am I the only one who thinks it’s logo looks like a Pokeball (from Pokemon)?

You can download it from here: http://www.google.com/chrome

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Quest for Glory 2 Remake: Blue Frog and items

I found a few extra items in the Quest for Glory 2 remake, including the elusive Blue Frog (which allowed you to cheat, in the original - “suck blue frog” anyone?)… Apparently you get it using the bellows with the air elemental in, and use it by pressing F10, or something like that?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008