Brian Peek

I've had a small stack of gaming promotional VHS tapes sitting in a box for years that I recently digitized and posted on YouTube. Let's take a look… The Coin-Op Tapes My dad was a coin-op operator. These five Atari Games tapes were sent to him in the lat

I work on several Atari Lynx projects, a handheld from 1989 with a 65C02 running at 4MHz and 64KB of RAM. One of the toolchains is cc65 , which means you write C, it transpiles that to 6502 assembly, that gets compiled, and then… you debug it by staring a

Have you heard about this AI thing? I know it doesn't get much press and hardly anyone is talking about it. So, what better way to give it some more attention than to write an article about it for my blog that hasn't been updated in 8 years? Let's begin.

At this year's Build conference, Dimitris Gkanatsios and I presented two sessions on game development and the cloud. The first demonstrates how one might use Azure Container Instances to automatically scale a multiplayer backend. The second is a demo on u

At GDC this year, I presented a session on scaling multiplayer backends using Azure Container Instances, Event Grid, and Azure Functions. An enormous thanks goes to Dimitris Gkanatsios who wrote 99% of this. You can find the video below, but here are some

By default, Ghost does not have a commenting system of its own. When migrating my blog from BlogEngine.NET, I wanted to carry over old comments and maintain the commenting feature. Disqus to the rescue! Migrating Old Comments First, you'll need to create

As mentioned previously, I recently migrated my blog to Ghost from BlogEngine.NET . I'll be writing a few posts discussing what I went through in the migration process. Installing Ghost on Azure I run my life on Azure. Previously, my BlogEngine instance w

I don't blog very regularly, it seems, so in an effort to get back on the bandwagon, I decided to migrate my blog from BlogEngine.NET to Ghost , since that's what much of the world has moved to. If you are seeing this post, apparently I was successful. Wh

Many years ago, an open-source Sega Dreamcast SDK known as KallistiOS (KOS) was created and is still being developed today. I used this SDK long ago to create a few emulators that were published , and a variety of unfinished games that were not… KOS is ea

I had the opportunity to co-present a session at Build 2015 focusing on building games for Windows 10 . Jaime Rodriguez and I spent an hour talking about the new Windows 10 features related to gaming, including Xbox Live, ID@Xbox , the new GamePad API, wi