Dave Thomson Issue #43, November 1997 A few simple design guidelines are presented to make your games more enjoyable to the players. Sweets are first tasted by the eye, but flavour is the heart and soul of all confectionery. –John Millar (1826-1896) It’s called a joystick because games are fun—or at least they’re meant to be. Of course, I doubt ...

David Sugar Issue #43, November 1997 Using Linux as a base to implement advanced telphony applications. In “Let Linux Speak” (LJ, January, 1997), I demonstrated some fun applications for the SPO256 text-to-speech board. Buried in that article was a brief discussion on the potential for using text-to-speech as a telephony resource and for using Linux as a telephony services platform. ...

Larry Ayers Issue #43, November 1997 Larry Ayers, author of many articles for both Linux Journal and Linux Gazette, interviews Robert Nation, the creator of FVWM and RXVT.         The Interview Robert Nation’s name crops up often in the man pages and other documentation of Linux software. He was involved in the early development of several key ...

Karel Kubat Issue #43, November 1997 Would you like to publish the texts you write in more than one format—PostScript for printing, plain ASCII for e-mail, and HTML for the a web page? YODL could be just the language you need. I wrote the first version of YODL in late 1995 and early 1996, as a general document language for ...

Paul Dunne Issue #43, November 1997 Here’s how to get sound to your speakers using a driver instead of a sound card. Linux supports most of the popular sound cards. If you don’t have a sound card, you can still get a degree of sound support from the humble speaker that came with your PC. In this article, I will ...

Martin Sjoelin Issue #43, November 1997 Promoting Linux in the workplace… During the summer of 1997, employees of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) put on a one-month expo to showcase Linux. This article describes how and why we did it. The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is one of Switzerland’s three largest banks, with offices world-wide and 30,000 employees. ...

Various Issue #42, October 1997 Our experts answer your technical questions. Creating Hunt Groups I need to add a new user for a static IP account. How can I set it up so that the new user can dial into our regular hunt group? The way I have it set up now, I would need to assign each user a ...

David Mosberger Issue #42, October 1997 This is the first of a 2 part series, an introduction to the Alpha family of computers in preparation for giving us the techniques for optimizing code on this high-performance platform in Part 2. Ever since its announcement in the Fall of 1991, the Alpha architecture (see Reference 3) has been the foundation of ...

Hans de Vreught Issue #42, October 1997 A tutorial for beginners is presented on writing PostScript files to display data. The Alparon research group at Delft University of Technology aims to improve automated speech processing systems for information retrieval and information storing dialogues. The current focus is on dialogue management for a research project of Openbaar Vervoer Reisinformatie. The company ...

Marjorie Richardson Issue #42, October 1997 An interview with the founder and president of XiGraphics.                     Thomas Roell is one of those multi-titled, multi-talented kind of guys. He is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Xi Graphics. Mr. Roell developed the original source code for X display servers on ...