Convert images to text (ASCII art)
Recently, whilst messing with sprites and the Grrr framework, I got thinking about better graphics for games. As PowerShell is very slow at doing console atomic write operations, a game should really have fewer, larger sprites. I then thought about ASCII art, and wouldn’t it be great if PowerShell could…
Console screen grabs in html
[Updated 25 Jan 2007, well rewritten 🙂 ] Something I find myself doing a lot is getting a screen shot of a PowerShell console window and posting it some place. Unfortunately, its always a bitmap, and occasionally, I want it as formatted text. Now, the console is readable via $host.ui.rawui.GetBufferContents,…
Sudoku
Some time ago, I wrote a Sudoku solver in Java, along with an editor, interactive hint mode, puzzle generator etc, but the project never got finished because of feature creep and I generally got a bit bored of it all. This morning, I resurrected the project and implemented the solver…
Grrr!
Despite the title, this is not a rant 🙂 Grrr is a pet project of mine that came after the exploratory work with psinvaders. I was somewhat dissatisfied with myself for doing so much without seeing how else it could be done, especially with respect to drawing of images, animation,…
Space Invaders
In a previous post I said that I always like to try to write space invaders in every language that I learn. Well, PowerShell in the standard Windows console window looked like a great candidate so I set about the task in my spare time. My colleagues Richy King, Nik…
PNG and Internet Explorer
Oh dear, it seems that even though this is 2007, the most popular web browser on the planet (IE Will change it over to olde worlde JPEGs later, but in the mean time, if you’re using Windows, do yourself a favour and install Firefox or IE7. Update: I’m not entirely…
PowerShell is slow
I was going to start the new year with a positive note, but then I thought, lets get a PS1 pet hate out of the way first. PowerShell is slow. There are many ways to demonstrate this, but for this case I’m going to use a small snippet of code…