Charlie Brooks Gameswipe!!!

In today'seminar session  (10th Feb 14') we watched watched a program called Charlie Brooks Gameswipe, in which he talked about different gaming genres, such as Sandbox gaming, shoot em ups and first person shooters.

Unit 36 Games Platforms + Technologies

We are currently in pairs and researching the different ages of gaming technology. I have been picked to do the 2000s - Present and am currently getting my notes together ready for a presentation in a couple of weeks.

Graphics Lesson - Week 7-8

Vector graphics are comprised of paths, which are defined by a start and end point, whereas Raster graphic are digital images represented by a matrix or grid of pixels called a bitmap.

                                                          


Aspect ratio is the ratio of the width to the height of an image. 30:17

Hardware Lesson 3

Hardware Lesson 3/5

Motherboard - Main part of the computer (The Hat) all connections go to this.

RAM - Random Access Memory. 

LAN - Local Area Network 

Cache Memory - is the faster version of RAM.
Level 1 and Level 2 Cache, level 1 is the faster type, level 2 is slower that level 1. 

Bios - A set of computer instructions in firmware that control input and output operations - Basic programming. 

Post - Power-On-Self-Test.

Boot Sequence - Booting (also known as "booting up") is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems.

Disk partitioning - The act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple virtual hard disk drives. 

ROM - Read-Only Memory   

Postsmouth F.c Logo

Portsmouth's Logo's

 
Portsmouth's old badge consisted of a star and a rotated moon, with the text underneath the logo in an ancient font. It has a curvy top and has contrasting colours. In comparison Portsmouth new logo is brighter and has a straight top, also the lettering is in a modern font and is now incorporated into the badge instead of being below it. It is also now called an ideogram.

 

Apple Logo

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/old-apple-logo.jpg 

Old apple logo, detailed but doesn't really represent apple as a company, very dark and plain colours. 

http://cdn.ismashphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/apple-logo.jpeg

Newest apple logo, more futuristic and modern, plain colours but presents apple as a company.