According to an email from Joystiq, Rock Band 3 has been announced. Hooray! I can’t wait to see how the Rock Band fans will spin it to make Harmonix out to be innocent angels (in between sessions of franctically trying to ram the Rock Band devs’ dongs into their mouths) while still decrying Activision as the ones trying to milk the music/rhythm genre.
This is a really lofty goal, but I think in my spare time I’m going to have a try at 100% accurately re-creating the Goldeneye engine in C, based on disassemblies and traces of the actual game.
Well, that’s the end goal, anyway. For now I’d be satisfied with tracing out the game’s boot process to figure out why, exactly, it fails to boot in MESS currently.
Either way, my current work is here. That’s after around 4-5 hours’ worth of work.
Saturday: I get out of bed, wash up, head into the living room, open my laptop, and behold a BSOD that I’d never seen before, with Windows XP complaining of some sort of memory error and hardware fault. The special part is that the BSOD was peppered with a strange pattern of cyan dots. A reboot fixes it.
Sunday: I fire up my Xbox 360 and get a red ring of death complaining about the HDD. An hour of hoping and a reboot fixes it.
Today, Part 1: I get home from work, plunk down in front of my laptop, open it up. Same error as on Saturday. I reboot the machine only to find that the corruption is still there, and against the black background of the Dell BIOS splashscreen it’s pink. Windows XP doesn’t start up.
Today, Part 2: After that wonderful experience, I got on the horn with Dell, who proceeded to walk me through kicking my laptop into diagnostic mode, and to subsequently run a comprehensive hard drive test (WHY!?). To kill time, I turned to me media PC connected to my HDTV (which I’m typing this entry on, in fact) and installed Pidgin, mIRC and Textpad. After about 15 minutes, the display suddenly blinked out for about two seconds. Now that it’s back, there doesn’t appear to be any hardware acceleration (though 3D screensavers work fine… after the screen blinks off for another two seconds!). Glorious!
Today, Part 3: As I was typing the above text, my laptop spontaneously powered off when it was around 95% of the way through the 50-minute-long read test. Oh, that’s right, I forgot to plug my laptop back in when I was running diagnostics on it, didn’t I? Yup!
Technology hates me, I hate technology. My job involves working on technology, but at least then I get to make technology my slave and force it to do my bidding. Oh well.