Create a small RAM disk for ultra fast I/O

In this simple guide I will explain how to create a virtual ram disk based on ext3 file system to be used for very fast I/O. This example is very useful though it has important limitations, for example: It does not allow big ram drives, as far as I know, the limit is 64 MB […]

Lenovo Thinkpad T410 and Ubuntu 12.10

(This article is rather old and was posted on another personal blog, I think it could help people anyway). Just as a side note, I stopped using Ubuntu since a while due to Unity. Now I work on Fedora 20 and Gnome 3, I love it. I have upgraded my laptop, a Lenovo T410 mounting […]

The love and hate for shared libraries

Introduction Since yesterday I have been playing around on the WII controller integration on my PATRIA 3D engine. This is required in order to have a fully working accelerometer support for our games testing since it is quite an effort to perform real testings on the smartphones especially when you are still in the middle […]

Android and HW differences

“This article was created on my old blog in 2012” Since the release of the first game on the Android Market I have faced the usual problems on the HW differences of the different Android devices on the market. I think this is the actual limitation of the Android platform, a lack in the HW […]

Compile Linux static libraries

I am preparing the code I have to use for the Global Game Jam 2013 which will occur next week end, 25-27 of January 2013. The idea is to use my 3D Engine, PATRIA for the development of the game but I would like to avoid to share the last 2 years efforts with everyone […]

Lenovo Thinkpad T410 and Ubuntu 12.10

 Hi everybody.   Today I have upgraded my laptop, a Lenovo T410 mounting integrated intel graphics, to Ubuntu 12.10. As soon as the OS started I started getting errors on the xorg server about the drivers installed. The only option was to start the PC in low resolution. In addition to that many other problems […]

Fantasy Racing: more than 100.000 downloads!

 I am very proud of the logical threshold we have exceed Today for Fantasy Racing on the android Market.   More than 100.000 downloads (102.000) have been done for our humble product, I am very proud of this achievement.   I am mostly proud of the success of the game, the feedback received from the […]