Another geography rant

Posted by Astryl on Aug. 15, 2012, 5:46 a.m.

Right, taking my cue from [furry], I would like to point out that South Africa isn't some horrible hole with no infrastructure, an infestation of mercenaries and a racism problem.

Nope.

Ok, maybe some racism still persists, but where doesn't it?

Be honest.

Anyway, read this:

http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/132487/the_south_african_game_development_.php?print=1

And something you may not know: We have a freakin' EA dev studio.

Anyway, thought I'd put that out there. Now let me get back to my work.

What I'm doing to relax

Though I'm at work right now with nothing much to do, I've been working on a minor project at home that i was intending to blog about. It isn't a game, nor is it a normal application…

Nope. I'm coding, for -fun-, an OS from scratch. Eeyup.

Before you start rolling around in fits of uncontrollable laughter, I already have a kernel, with only a single segmented memory manager at the moment, but with full access to te entire potential 4gb address line of a 32 bit CPU.

In addition to that, I have some of the parts of the C standard library made (notably, memset, memcpy, malloc, free, putch, and puts), which I had to code from scratch.

I also created a fault message display module, that creates a wonderful Blue Screen Of Doomtm (Not to be confused with the more common Blue Screen Of Death).

Anyway, pics when I get back to my PC.

Comments

Pirate-rob 12 years, 3 months ago

We actually had nukes until america asked us to get rid of them.

Ferret 12 years, 3 months ago

Quote:
Quote:
And something you may not know: We have a freakin' EA dev studio.
We've got Bioware.
… I live in Los Angeles California. *drops the mic*

JuurianChi 12 years, 3 months ago

:Picks up the mic:

Heyy, everyone.

I"m JuurianChi.

Would you all like the hear the story of the sheep in the big city?

Rez 12 years, 3 months ago

Hey guys, evil dead was filmed in my state!

:gets chainsaw'd to death:

firestormx 12 years, 3 months ago

Hey guys, my province is almost as large as the entire country of South Africa.

…and far less developed.

:freezes to death:

Castypher 12 years, 3 months ago

Hey guys, my state is full of diehard Christians.

:Gets crucified to death:

JuurianChi 12 years, 3 months ago

New York, motherfuckers!

:Gets mugged to death:

pounce4evur 12 years, 3 months ago

Texas?

:Gored by a cactus to death:

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 3 months ago

oklahoma

*crickets*

Charlie Carlo 12 years, 3 months ago

:is eaten alive by crickets:

In other news, everything I know about South Africa is District 9.