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and here was i thinking SX Blogs feature was just for SX Members. Not 100% sure what i'll ever put on here but i'm sure i'll think of some useless crap that no-one will read so stay tuned

It's not often I make a post like this, but this is a cause that I feel should be supported. The second Humble Indie Bundle has been available for a bit now and features five independent games that are actually good for what they are. In addition, the price on these games can be named on them so they can be bought for as little as one cent or in the case of the creator of Minecraft, $2,000. (I do think this atleast deserves a few bucks though.) The money can be split among the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play (which I strongly support as a charity), or leave a tip to those who set up this promotion to help recoup their costs. This is a very worthwhile cause so if possible try to spare a few bucks for these guys at http://www.humblebundle.com for some good games.

I kind of mentioned some of the difficulty I have had with this, but after today I've decided I may as well mention this too. The simple fact that I have to rely on another program such as XBCD to CORRECTLY use my 360 controllers is bullshit. Microsoft created the 360 controllers and the common input drivers for Windows so I honestly thought they would make it work straight out of the box. The reality though is that it's three levels of fucked up.

The biggest issue is why the fuck the D-Pad mapped to the POV hat. This breaks the overwhelming majority of joysticks, including those who allow for the joystick to be mapped to the left and right analog triggers. The majority of games don't read controls from there and as a result it leaves games such as Touhou unplayable in newer operating systems unless major league modifications are made. Seriously Microsoft, there's no fucking excuse for these awful drivers.

Recently, my Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition FightStick arrived and I figured why not try it with some PC shmups. I hooked it up and drivers were instantly installed. However, the drivers install mapped the joystick to the POV hat which renders it practically worthless for most shmups. I attempted to use XBCD+, but when I try to install it the system gripes about the drivers not being for Windows 64 bit despite seeing information to the contrary. On my desktop, which I have Windows XP on, I got it to work with XBCD almost instantly and was able to get everything working.

Ok, it's no secret that GPUs are rather powerful and can do more than run games in Modern gaming consoles and PCs. It can speed up various processes such as video playback for common users and for more advanced users, cracking encryptions. Developing programs to take advantage of this also is not very difficult thanks to the development of OpenCL. However, the majority of programs that use GPU acceleration either don't need it, or are heavily unoptimized.

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Since I do have a little free time for once, here's some planned Amp Blasts works that will hopefully be done in the future.

- GPU accelerated applications that AREN'T games
- Windows 7 Driver Signature Enforcement
- Pentavision and PM Studios (For those not in the know, the makers of the DJ Max series.)
- Cave (I hate to do this, but after some news that was announced this morning I have to do this.)

It's no secret that I love having higher quality controllers. It's also no secret that Mad Catz was known for anything BUT high quality controllers for gaming. With this in mind, when I first heard that Mad Catz would be making controllers for Street Fighter 4, I thought they would be the usual cheap knockoffs. Then, they decided to state that there would be an entry level, and a pure arcade based version of the fight stick which again had me skeptical. Well, I was skeptical until after seeing the controller in action.

At the start of the month Anti-Piracy 2.5 was announced with the newest Xbox 360 Dashboard with the first two games using it being Fable 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Last night though, iXtreme LT+ was released for Lite-On and BenQ drives to defeat this anti-security measure. For those using Samsung drives, it cannot use the AP25 correctly so that check is turned off so they are safe. In the future there will be a release of iXtreme LT+ for drives used in the Xbox 360 slim so stay tuned if you own that version of the console. This new firmware can be downloaded at http://www.ixtreme.net/lt-lite-touch-download/ixtreme-lite-touch-t2485.html and the newest version of Jungle Flasher can be downloaded at http://jungleflasher.net/downloads.html for those who are interested.

Note: For updating to the newest dashboard, revert back to the Official Firmware first as trying to update with iXtreme on the drive will cause the console to be banned from Xbox Live.

hey folks, someone hacked my paypal & decided to buy a load of things, due to this paypal transferred the funds from the bank to cover it, therefore putting my bank into the red by $500, i dont have a lot of money, hell we're surviving on the minimum as it is.. & now got this guy doing it..

So therefore if anyone can find information on this guy, or even screw him over so he knows what's it like.. then i'd be eternally great-full..

got an email from one of the companys that he'd bought things from.. & his email is:-

[email protected]

Thanks in advance

Graham