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Predictable garbage collection with Lua

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 23, 2011July 20, 2011

In one of my previous posts I talked about how you can make the Lua garbage collector (GC) more predictable in running time. This is a virtue that is highly valued in a GC used in games where you don’t have the luxury of going over you frame time. In that post I described a […]

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Hollywood Directors Beware!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 24, 2008March 24, 2008

With great pleasure I inform you that my first video clip is complete! No I am not singing.. I just created the video for the upcoming single from Dol Theeta – the second brain child of Thanasis Lightbridge. Part of the three band project of his, of which we only experienced Dol Ammad until now. […]

Open Source Software Sylphis

24 hours and 3GB later…

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 12, 2007

Its been almost 24 hours since the release of Sylphis3D and the sourceforge shows that 3GBytes were downloaded already about 10 e-mails expressing unbounded appreciation and some very nice comments. People are already jumping in to help with the website, doing changes and cleaning up the mess! I would like to thank every one of […]

Game Development Open Source OpenGL Programming Software

The wait is over… Sylphis3D is open source!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 11, 2007

I just release the source to Sylphis3D! Check out the story at the Developer Network. The wait is over! Sylphis3D is officially released under the GNU GPL ver.2 (with the classpath exception for those that need closed source solutions). The engine weights at around 45000 lines of source code written in C++ and Python. The […]

Game Development Open Source Programming Software Sylphis

Tomorrow the Release

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 10, 2007

The time has come… tomorrow is the release day of Sylphis3D as an open source project. I’m very excited for this new begining! This is going to be my biggest contribution to the open source community until now. The source that is going to be released counts ~45000 lines of code in C++ and Python […]

Game Development Open Source Software Sylphis

Opensource License

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 5, 2007April 5, 2007

The last days I’m spending most of my time considering open source licenses and what would be the appropriate license for Sylphis3D. I must say that it is a very brain-melting procedure. I can see now why I could never became a lawyer! I initially started considering two licenses, the GPL and the BSD. These […]

Game Development Open Source OpenGL Programming Software Sylphis

Sylphis3D goes open source : BSD or GPL ?

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 28, 2007March 28, 2007

I think this is good news on the doorstep today! Yeap! After long thoughts I came to the decision to finally open the source code of Sylphis3D. This is going to be a big step for the development of the game engine and

Open Source Programming

Running Azureus with 128MB RAM

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 19, 2006

Do you want to do a fun thing? Try running Azureus on a laptop running Debian with 128MB of RAM… JAVA to the people!!! 🙂

Open Source Programming

PyPy – Python in Python

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 4, 2006April 4, 2006

It is a common thing in programming languages, and a sign of maturity to implement a language in the language itself. This however is not common

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What is (the) Perl 6?

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on January 17, 2006January 17, 2006

Unfortunately noone can be told what Perl 6 is… You have to see it for yourself. Read this on slashdot today… 🙂