Digital Ether

Last lesson we looked at making a Window’s based CD automatically boot, and adding your own unique icon.

Here the script I had on the board, which when placed in a text file called autorun.inf will cause the CD to autoboot;

[autorun]
open=ShellRun.exe index.htm Starting CD now..
icon=<myIconFile>.ico

The above will do the following;

ShellRun.exe index.htm will cause a web browser to open the web-page of index.htm in the root directory of the CD.  The text “Starting CD now…” should be displayed.

The CD will have the icon <myIconFile>.ico, also in the root doirectory of the CD.  NB: Please change the <myIconFile> to the name of the file you are using.

Here are the URLs with the info;

• http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm
• http://www.cdmenupro.com/autorun_inf.htm
• http://www.cdmenupro.com/icon.htm

See “Too much Information?” on NineMSN’s Grazia for an excellent example is the Photoshop effect on our perception of reality.
Or this production piece for the second Twilight movie

Notice the perspective of the external hard drive in front compared to the background.

Been a gamer from the 1980s I have a nostalgic love of the classic games such as D&D.  Tripod’s website have combined this with their quirky music for a killer combination that expresses what Tripod’s about. Also check out April77, who designed Tripod’s site.

For those of you interested in developing games for the iPhone, look at the classic games on old computing platforms.

http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/05/c64-emulator-approved-by-apple-and-now-available/

Art Design in Computer Games creates the entire feel of the game experience for the player, so as you can understand it is a critical part of the game.

Another thing that is common these days is to mash together or combine differing genres of games.

For example: Steampunk, which combines high technology with a Victorian aesthetics and appears to become a sub-genre in it’s own right.  And Western style.

A cool way of changing the look of your computer.

http://www.gelaskins.com/