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October 2005 - Posts

Monday, October 31, 2005 11:58 PM

Happy Halloween!!

Some friends were talking about how they were living in Sweden during Halloween a few years ago and they had trick-or-treaters show up on their doorstep on November 3rd. Confused, they asked around to find out what was happening. Apparently the response
Posted by torgo3000 | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:01 PM

Tools are better than thumbs.

I'm probably coming late to the party here, but there's some really cool stuff over at SceneryDesign.org , a nice little site put together by 3rd party scenery gurus Arno and Nick . It's got tools, documented formats and a wiki for all of your Flight
Posted by torgo3000 | 3 Comments
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:34 AM

From the department of "Already knew that!"

This is kind of fun, you can find out how much your blog is worth at this business opportunites site. Here's mine: My blog is worth $0.00 . How much is your blog worth? Yay!
Posted by torgo3000 | 5 Comments
Friday, October 14, 2005 6:14 PM

A little history....

So my very first version of Flight Simulator was FS 2.0 for the Fat Mac. I honestly wasn't much of an aviation buff, but I must have spent days sitting in front of that little black and white VGA monitor crashing into the mountains, desparately trying
Posted by torgo3000 | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:28 PM

More about AutoAlias... er, AliasDesk

High End 3D has a good interview with Dave Wharry (VP Global sales and Marketing, Alias) and Marc Petit (VP of Product Development etc. etc, Autodesk) about the future of Max and Maya here . One of the most interesting bits is that they currently aren't
Posted by torgo3000 | 1 Comments
Monday, October 10, 2005 7:04 PM

The Make Art Button

So apparently, the Game Developers Conference in San Jose thought my idea for a presentation called "The Make Art Button: batches, actions and scripts", would be interesting. I tend to agree with them, but I may be just a little bit biased. So now I actually
Posted by torgo3000 | 1 Comments
Friday, October 07, 2005 11:11 PM

Autodesk and its many press releases...

Autodesk has made a couple of huge announcements this week. The one that has most shaken the games community in general is that Autodesk has signed an agreement to buy Alias . There's a real hilarious depiction of the fantacism that people have about
Posted by torgo3000 | 3 Comments
Friday, October 07, 2005 4:41 AM

What the heck is a Torgo 3000?

Well of course, the simple answer is that it is obviously the model immediately following the Torgo 2000. Okay, let me back up a second. I guess I'll start from the beginning. It has something to do with MST3K , an old screen saver for After Dark , a
Posted by torgo3000 | 4 Comments
 
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