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LINKS- most recent on bottom, I never check them , all may be broken/gone/lead to porno site, not responsible, blah, blah..Last update June 2009
Neighborhood news This now contains new links since 2006.
Povray Texture Library
PlanetQuake
-lots
of good modeling, level building hints.
3d
Cafe - some O.K. textures.
Dr.
Bhatty's RPG activities-he can code, also..
Genesis3d
- A completely FREE Quake
II engine! Imports quake .map files. 14MB.
Contaminated.net
-Get the Half-Life Modeling SDK (12MB) here free. Very enlightening;
uses Max and Character Studio.
Klaus
Zerbe's Hoopla Cave - Get the Lightweight Framework for
Genesis
3d (very good docs), also TrueGene, converts Truespace to Genesis
.act.
Charles
Bloom's Genesis Page -Like to see him play tic-tac-toe
against
Alexey, get his procedural .3dt's and Gbitmap Utils..
Loonygames
- A game magazine, search the archives for ANYTHING by Paul Steed,
the Id 3ds Max Modeler, he's the best!
International
Game Developers Network - Haven't really gone here, they say
it's
nice..
Gamasutra -
Ditto..
Rabidgames
-Ed Averill's Genesis wrapper, he's got the moving platforms, the
switch-activated doors, the fog, the transporters, the particle
systems,
download the source here!
Garageband
- Listen to up-and-coming musicians, you have to review each song to
listen to another one.
On-line-guitar-archive
-This was off line because of copyright problems caused by ASCAP, now
it's back,
find the chords/lyrics to pop songs.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html
-The funniest web page I've ever seen. Be sure to visit the Meat,
Fashion, and Art Frahm areas..
The
Onion -pretty funny satire.
http://www.gracelessland.com-Who says programmers can't be funny?
http://www.oldmanmurray.com-An hilarious game review site.
http://www.woolyloach.com
- (live 1/12/2004)Where Ed lives, he keeps a journal online.
Michael
Brumm's World
Editor - The best Genesis 3d level editor, $20 cheap.
PowerDesk
-A free replacement for Windows Explorer. Now I need a free
replacement for Windows..
EditPad
Lite -A free replacement for Notepad.
http://www.activeworlds.com/products/download.html (1.8MB)- This is an online bunch of areas where people have made art objects and animations. I can cruise through at a good rate even while downloading files.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010302/oneil_01.htm- Download the 66K space flight demo of 2 planets, remarkable how detailed they are.
http://www.gimp.org/win32/ Gnu Image Manipulation Program for Windows (10MB). This paint program appears to have most of the features of Photoshop, and it's FREE! Also a Linux/Unix version.
http://www.subgenius.com/index.html -If I was religious, I'd probably join this one...
http://www.microtopo.com-This $35 program loads DEMs (see below) which you can texture map with Digital Orthophoto Quads.
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/DEM/7.5min/-These are 3d Digital Elevation Models for the United States.
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/search.pl?DOQ_QQUAD -These are the satellite photos, type in say 'groom creek' , 'submit search,'click 'detail/browse?' and 'Show me the Preview', the satellite photo loads, right-click 'save image as..' 'groomcreeknw.jpg'. Don't forget the .jpg part..
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/ -Go here to find out when Space Station Alpha passes overhead.
http://www.forteantimes.com- News of the Weird
http://adbusters.org-Stop corporate tyranny!
Genesis3d Forum-learn about the engine.
Irfanview- a free bitmap viewer, has the best thumbnail utility I've seen.
http://www.recent-software.com/-a freeware 3d engine, views Quake1, 2, 3, Wolfenstein, Halflife .BSP's
Something Awful-Move over, lileks.com, this is the funniest web site I've ever seen.
Wings3d-(932K) -a freeware Nendo-clone modeler, also requires Erlang (link on site), 23mb.
Dogwaffle- (10MB) a freeware paint program with natural-type watercolor, chalk brushes. 12/2002-there's a new $36 version, haven't tried it..
Blog You!-The many ways to say "Look at me, I'm boring!"
Satirewire-Funny.
Jean-Louis' Genesis Site-Basic tutorials about Genesis 3d.
OpenOffice A freeware Office clone, (50MB), used to be called Star Office, loads all the Evil Empire formats, spreadsheets, does web pages, etc.
George Pirvu's ACK demo -(32MB) a set of movies demoing the Conitec A5 engine (www.conitec.com)
Texture Maker-(5.2MB) This is pretty essential if you're going to make game textures. Go here for beginner tutorials, and this place for advanced tutorials. Price $70. Update 2006, this is $140 now, $62 upgrade.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/blender/index_eng.htm
A particle systems editor, get Fraps (fraps.com) and capture some
movies for your game explosions.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/-
What kind of nuts are running around out there?
3dem digital mapping software -Lucky you, I paid $35 for this, it's free now. Get the DEMS (maps) at www.gisdatadepot.com, also free, if you don't mind registering and waiting a while..
People send in notes they find here and there, hilarious.
http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm
Free FTP software ftp commander, how I upload this file.
Update 2005: I use Filezilla now, also free.
Interesting guy, just started a game company.
Philip's House of Stock Photography- Philip Greenspun's sort of free photos (must give credit). His books are very good, honest
evaluations of the internet age.
Tons
of Useful Game Development Links
Free Avi to MPG converter-this is tmpgenc, it reduced a 39 MB .avi to 1.4MB .mpg, windows media
player
will play them.
How I Model Bodies (14MB) -tutorial on human torso modeling in wings 3d in .avi format, you need the
Divx player to see it, tip: space bar pauses.
Foxit PDF reader This free PDF reader loads huge PDF files in 2 seconds, they also have a pay-for
PDF editor, PDF's are valuable because no one can edit them!
Divx Player (7.6MB)-there's a also a Divx converter for free trial, Player is included in it.
Cam Studio (1.3MB)- records your screen actions, good for doing tutorials.
Sega Animanium (11mb demo)- interesting Japanese animation program, supposed to import/export Max 4.2, 5, 6,
Maya, don't have those though.
Free Html editor, only one I use.. There's a new version here
called "Kompozer"
Ripoff Report - This link is about Rent-a-Center, but Ripoff covers just about anything. What the Internet is for.
Might have to search for this, the last version they gave away was 1.08.
works for me!
Except it scans your computer every day at 8 A.M. or whenever you turn it on ." YOU CAN"T DELETE THIS" it says, (Made by Germans).
New 2006, all free.
Free building modeler (20MB) Very easy to use.
Virtual Dub-This will tell you your hardware, software licenses and versions, and what kind of motherboard you have.
ProgeCAD LT 2006 This is the best free CAD program I could find (61 MB)
Gutenberg Project search google for it, lots of free public domain books, 'The devil's dictionary' by Ambrose Bierce is good.Book Picks
Red Dust, Pasquale's Angel,
Books 1, 2 and 3 of the Confluence Trilogy, By Paul J.
McCauley. Science Fiction is not dead!
Books of the Long ,Short,New Sun, (each one has 3 volumes, read them in order) by Gene Wolfe. Also the trilogy that contains "Claw of
the Conciliator" (may be one of the above).
Tales of Dying Earth- by Jack Vance. Magick, magick, and more magick, by a guy who knows all the words.
Rainbow Mars- by Larry Niven. There's this tree, you see..
One King's Way- By Harry Harrison and another guy. Alternate history of the Middle Ages, 1 of a 2 or 3 book series.
Spaceland-By Rudy Rucker. Everything else he does is good also.
Empire of the Ants-Bernard Werber. This was made into a computer game that wasn't too good, I hear, the book is very good.
Timeline- by Michael Crichton. Life in the 14th Century; you might not want to even visit there, let alone live. I heard the movie sucked.
Street Hungry- Bill Kent. About Philadelphia and food and a mysterious disease.
The Bear Went over the Mountain William Kotzwinkle. Very funny.
Bloodsucking Fiends- Christopher Moore A funny vampire love story set in modern San Francisco.
Thank You For Smoking- Christopher Buckley Political Satire from Bill's kid.
(Can't remember the title), but it's Scott Spencer's latest, about Daniel and Iris. You should have named it "Marvin Moist", Scott!
Moving Pictures- By Terry Pratchett. Just 'disc'overed him, really funny. Has written about 30 books. Lots of Magick.
Sourcery-Terry Pratchett. Update – I've read about 10 so far, all pretty good.
A short history of nearly everything- Bill Bryson. Science for the non-geek, did you know the guy (Midgley) who invented
leaded gasoline also introduced chloroflourocarbons into refrigeration? He died before he could kill the rest of us.
Fluke, The Stupidest Angel- Christopher Moore. Move over Carl Haaisen, he's now the funniest writer alive.
Anything by Carl Haaisen, he writes hilarious mysteries about Florida.
Kings of Infinite Space- James Hynes. Paul Trilby's 2 weeks at the Texas Dept. of General Services.
Wigfield- Amy Sidaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert. I guess this is a written as well as an audio book, it's hilarious! WARNING:
contains filthy thoughts.
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn. The 'geeks' are the carnival performers who bite off chicken heads.
America the book, by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Funny. He has a show on Comedy Central.
Possible Side Effects, by Augusten Burroughs. Funny.
Anything
by Philip K. Dick, I'm reading about 15 I got from the library, 2
points for the Yavapai Library Network! He wrote 10 novels in 2 years
('63-'64), heard he was he a tweaker.
Hilarious/frightening/surreal
psychological stuff, only science fiction by accident.
Movie Picks
The Original Kings of Comedy- Celebrate America's Diversity..
Naked Prey (1966) Cornell Wilde. This would really make a great computer game.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964) Taylor and Burton. This is really scary, because I've seen it happen in real life. In case your movie savvy doesn't predate 1975, these are 'actors' 'acting'.
The Thin Man-William Powell, Myrna Loy (1934)- the first comedy-mystery, never been topped. Shot in 2 weeks.
Shrek-(2001) Quality from Hollywood, wow.
Choclat-(199-something) Don't watch this without chocolate.
Space Cowboys (2000?) Clint, Tommy Lee, Jim, and Don win one for the Gipper.
Monsters, Inc. -More quality from Hollywood, wow.
As Good As It Gets-Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear. Dysfunctionals try to get well, funny.
Finding Nemo(2003)- Another good one from Pixar.
Levity B.B Thornton, Holly Hunter. B.B. Tries to atone for a 21 year old murder.
Strictly Ballroom (Australian) Ballroom dancing soap opera played for laughs, how did Hollywood has lost
the knack of making movies with a light touch like this.
Everybody's Fine- Marcello Mastroanni. A Sicilian decides to visit his 5 children in Italy.
The Bicycle Thief (1953?) Vittorio da Sica "A masterpiece of Italian neo-realism" but it's actually good, too.
Hidalgo (2004) Viggo ("Aragorn") Mortensen races his mustang against some Bedouins in Iraq in 1880-something.
In and Out- Kevin Kline is gay? Tom Selleck?
Mixed Nuts- Steve Martin. funny. Only time Adam Sandler is good.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003?) Sean Connery, a cast of 1000 computer animators. The computer
stuff actually blends in with the 'real' bits for a change.
Master and Commander...(forget the rest of the title) (2003) Russell Crowe as an 1804 British Navy captain.
8 1/2 (1960ish) An odd movie by Federico Fellini
TV Picks
Tough Crowd, The Man Show, Chapelle Show-
Larry David- HBO, got this at the library, why wasn't HE
'Seinfeld'? I would have watched that.
3
funny Comedy Central
shows.
Sponge Bob Squarepants- Nick, not just for kids...
Six Feet Under- Best show on TV 3 years and counting.
Link TV- Kind of Short Wave Television, home video of other countries. The World Music videos are far better than MTV's.
NOTE:
Some of these sites you might have to leave out
the 'www' part of their address to reach them.
Radio Picks
Nothing
on the AM (except Dr. Dean Edell and Dr. Laura (what would Dr. Laura do? RIP YOU A NEW ONE) or FM (except Car Talk
and Wait Wait don't tell me) band these days, but shortwave has Radio
Netherlands, the BBC, and China Radio International, the Chinese have
a soothing way of talking. Once in a while I'll hear a language that
is completely unrecognizable. There are also internet radio
stations in the United Kingdom
that
broadcast at 10k 20k, dialup speeds, "different bad music".
Marty Bee Gets Hit By Hurricane Rita -
This is by a Reality Factory user, you won't see hurricane coverage like this anywhere else!
Wiki How-To List "How to invite a cloud indoors"? (#401) Added June 2009