Pages for the Creations of Ryan Armstrong
When running games in Linux, especially through Wine, occasionally you will run into a game that doesn't support fullscreen and otherwise appears a bit small for comfort. In my case, I ran into this running Environmental Station Alpha and the classic Entertainment Pack version of Chip's Challenge.
The approach I …
It should go without saying that there are a lot of guides to installing GRUB and fixing GRUB stuff for Linux users (not the least of which is the Arch Wiki. This article is a smaller, more focused article on the issues I have personally run into, and their solutions …
A guide to running Caldera Open Linux 1.3 in QEMU with working networking, XFree86 setup and some information on forwarding X clients from the VM to Xnest.
Every so often I mess with [old Linux distros](https://zerker.ca/photos/#15597798463055) or BSDs and do not always have one of the modern screenshot tools available.
Enter xwd. This tool will dump an X11 window (or the root window) to a file for later viewing.
To dump a …
So recently I made myself a custom SNES Joystick. I'll be posting about that later, but I noticed that it wouldn't work with the Super Gameboy, despite working with other SNES games. I also noticed that my third-party PS2 to SNES adaptor as well as my NES to SNES adaptor …
Quake was the first true 3D game that I have edited for, and so some of these levels are more primitive than my levels for other games. Towards the end of my Quake editing, with the Water Treatment Plant and base of the 12 Monkeys, my maps became more advanced …
IMPORTANT: My default controls for most of these games is for a joystick. If you don't have one or don't want to use one, hit Ctrl+Y when the game comes up to bring up the control box, and select keyboard for player 1, and sometimes 2. Select your favourite …
Moon Project editing is fun, because it allows me to design something that most fps's don't: a vast landscape. At first, it was great fun to create my favourite game worlds to stage epic battles in, then I started dabbling in making my own levels. With Farin Hills and the …
Editing for Unreal Tournament was great, because I could simply import my levels from Unreal 1 and modify them for Unreal Tournament. Not to mention I didn't need to learn a new editor. After most of my Unreal 1 levels made their way into UT, I started working on some …
Now Unreal was a game I made many levels for, much more than are listed on the side. The Unreal Editor did away with so many of the limitations of making Quake 2 levels, and so I was free to make almost whatever I wanted. The maps that are not …
Quake 2 was the natural progression from editing for Quake 1. As you can see, I did not make quite so many levels for Quake 2 as Quake 1, mostly due to the extreme length of time it took to rebuild a map. Even still, those maps which I did …