xgame begins

So, Rein and I decided to have a little compo. To learn DirectX and make something cool. The first thing I've been able to come up with is a remake of an old game that used to go by the name of 'VGA planets', not the VGA planets, mind you. With such a name, it's just not possible to find in amongst the birdmen and the borg ( I think they've assimilated the original). Spec: We have a bunch of planets which remain stationary, players' space ships which are fitted with inertial drives which can be turned off. A ship has fuel and a gun. The gun...

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C#: Using StringBuilder with operators

So, I had a plane trip ahead of me, and I wanted to be able to use .net StringBuilder with operators, below is the bstring class I wrote to do this. It's pretty straightforward, except the * operator behaves like python's and additionally is faster than a looped StringBuilder because of the pre-calculation (and allocation) of capacity. Still trivial, but it makes the StringBuilder useful without having to remember its syntax.In testing it (obviously) beat the string class and also was indistinguishable from the StringBuilder in all but the *...

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