Posts Tagged ‘ AIR ’

Flash for big Games?

  • August 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Even though I love ActionScript more than my daily meal I’ve recently started to think about if the Flash Platform is actually the right stuff for developing big games. Most Flash game developers write small-scale games for the web which is totally fine and I too like to write a small coffee-break game sometimes but [ READ MORE ]

ActionScript: Beaten like a ginger stepchild

  • August 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Recently there has been a lot of uproar about ActionScript from some of the more nominated ActionScript developers. People like Joa Ebert, Nicolas Canasse, Andre Michelle and Peter Elst spoke off their dissatisfaction about the current state of ActionScript, that’s it’s stuck in the middle of nowhere, that Adobe isn’t open enough about their plans [ READ MORE ]

AIR needs GPU support!

  • June 24th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Imagine you’re writing an AIR-based game that uses fullscreen at a rather high resolution and a full-frame rendering engine like, say, PV3D and you find out that AIR can’t really handle this. After a lot of research it turns out that there seems to be no way in an AIR app to use the GPU mode [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3.1 Update

  • April 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Although Alcon version 4 is currently under development I’ve decided to release a small update for Alcon 3, version 3.1 since I’ve received a code signing certificate from Adobe and wanted to keep up with re-releasing the now-signed application on the AIR Market Place. Besides that Alcon is now code-signed there is exactly one new feature [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Out Now!

  • August 25th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

It took longer than expected thanks to obstacles like a crashed harddisk and other minorities in between but it’s finally done and I now can announce the immediate availability of Alcon 3! It runs currently on Windows and Mac and hopefully soon on Linux too. When I tested it on Ubuntu it installed and started [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Preview

  • August 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Since so many of you (well, at least four people) are feverishly waiting for the release of Alcon 3 here’s a preview screenshot to comfort your waiting time. The shot shows Alcon’s trace output panel with some bogus Array being traced iteratively and as a hex dump. the top of the window displays Alcon’s new [ READ MORE ]

Announcing Alcon 3

  • July 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Alcon 3 is in the works! The new version is being written for Adobe AIR and that means no more hackish OS integration! Thanks to AIR the debugging tool will run nice and smooth on any supported OS and it will restore your windows size and position where you last left it, Stay On Top [ READ MORE ]

AIR application: FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)

  • August 29th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

I finally came to play a bit more with AIR and it’s specific features and wrote a small tool that is helpful for freelancers like you and me to make pricing estimation calculations. With FEAT you can calculate your hourly rate based on your expenses and some other factors and it provides a wizard to [ READ MORE ]