Creating a custom single-axis scrolling control in WinForms
A article which describes how to create a custom control that supports scrolling on a single axis.
Archived posts for all of 2020
kbd Markdig Plugin
An overview of a simple Markdig extension for adding support for kbd tags.
Richard Moss
Initial thoughts on the Cooler Master Pi Case 40
My thoughts on the Cooler Master Pi Case 40 that I received today.
Richard Moss
An introduction to using Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) via C#
A brief overview on getting started with the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) library in C#
Richard Moss
Simulating Bacterial Chemotaxis
A sample application demonstrating chemotaxis, in a very simplified fashion.
Richard Moss
Cyotek.Drawing.BitmapFont Version 2 Released
A new version of our BMFont parsing library has been released.
Richard Moss
Initial thoughts on the Adafruit I2S 3W Stereo Speaker Bonnet for Raspberry Pi
Thoughts and observations using the Adafruit I2S 3W Stereo Speaker Bonnet for Raspberry Pi over the last week and a half.
Richard Moss
Committing to a Git repository using custom dates
How to specify custom committer and author dates when committing to a git repository via the command line, helpful when setting up repositories for historical code.
Richard Moss
Adding Scripting to .NET Applications
An article describing how you could add JavaScript script support to your .NET applications via the Jint package.
Richard Moss
Writing DOOM WAD files
In a prior post, I described id's WAD format used by classic games such as DOOM and how to read them. This post covers how to write them. As with my first post, this only covers the original WAD format, not the enhanced ones which followed.
Richard Moss
Decoding DOOM Picture Files
In my previous post, I described id's WAD format used by classic games such as DOOM and how to read them. While researching the format though, I wasn't 100% sure that I was extracting lumps properly - the only readable file I'd discovered was `DMXGUS` in `DOOM1.WAD`, and also `LICENSE` in `DARKWAR.WAD`... hardly conclusive. Armed with the specification from the DOOM FAQ I decided to take a brief segue into decoding the pictures to verify the lumps I was extracting were valid.
Richard Moss
Reading DOOM WAD Files
WAD "Where's All the Data" files used by DOOM and various other games are simple containers, similar to zip and other archive formats, without additional complexity (such as compression) and data-centric rather than file. This article describes how to read the WAD files used by DOOM, DOOM II, Rise of the Triad and similar games of that area. The article covers reading of a WAD and extracting its contents