Monthly Archives: May 2014

Open Command Window Here in Windows 7

Being a hard core java programmer the Windows console is only one step away from me. In Windows 7 I use a nifty inbuilt feature which allows me to open a command window and switch to a given directory in a single step.

  • Using My Computer / Windows Explorer navigate to the relevant folder.
  • Press Shift and do a Right Click either on the folder name.
  • You will get a popup menu with the option “Open Command Window Here”.
  • Clicking on this option will open the console / terminal window with this folder as the current directory.
  • You can Right Click on an empty area as well to open the console/terminal for the current folder.

This facility is a time saver and I really like using it every now and then.

Old Games and Old Memories

I had been digging in my email account for some reasons and voila I found the binaries of two games I developed around year 2000. These games were written in FoxPro as I found FoxPro very interesting those days. I used to develop financial apps in FoxPro and I still believe that it was a good development platform albeit not suitable for game development but anyways these two were simple text based games. I just downloaded the binaries and they still work but via ‘DOSBox’ which is a Dos emulator shell for newer windows version.

I developed these games to basically promote the services of the company for which I did freelancing. I figured that with some free games floating around people would find out about this company. Actually the plan failed miserably as I don’t think we made any new contact that way. But the games still work and it feels nice to see them operating after all these years. I would have loved to tweak around the source code if I still had it 🙁 but those were the days when I had still not learnt anything about Version Control and Backups.

I still remember the pride with which I included my name ‘Abhinav Anand’ in these game titles. I loved putting my name in everything I did and I still feel that branding is important for your work.

Splash Screen for Tetris

Splash Screen for Tetris

Game Screen of Tetris

Game Screen of Tetris

Congratulations Screen of Tetris

Congratulations Screen of Tetris

Puzzle Game Screen

Puzzle Game Screen