Theme: “The
Significance of CUBIES II PC”
This day commemorates the 12th
anniversary since the CUBIES Game was approved as a Thesis Proposal during CBG
2006 or officially known as Games of the VIIth Colympiad. This year’s theme
focuses on the great significance of CUBIES II PC.
The CUBIES II PC is my second
Desktop PC running on Windows 10 (64-Bit) at Home where it was designed for
gaming, database, programming, and other software purposes and served as my
Personal PC in its entire lifespan from February 13, 2017 to present succeeding
the Original CUBIES PC running on Windows XP (32-Bit). Owning it for the past 1
year and 5 months had been an amazing experience.
This second Desktop PC will act as
a Data Center for the development, testing, and deployment of all-new applications
(Desktop, Web, or Mobile) to be made on this PC. I also got to use all the
major software (Eclipse Java SE IDE, Eclipse Java EE IDE, Adobe Photoshop CC,
Adobe Dreamweaver CC, Apache Httpd Server, & Apache Tomcat Server) that
were seem impossible for the Original CUBIES PC to work and cause hang-ups. It
was also on this CUBIES II PC that my programming skills were revived and
expanded with knowledge in Java SE 8, Java EE 7, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP7,
and MySQL. This is my main passion and reason for using the CUBIES II PC.
This second Desktop PC has a Palit
Video Card which will make a wonderful gaming experience with a fast, swift,
& smooth graphics which were not achieved with the Original CUBIES PC.
Thus, different emulators from different video game consoles (BSNes, Fusion,
MAME, Project64, WinDS Pro, & PPSSPP) were played at its full glory. In
line with this, the CUBIES M.G.I.S. (Multi-Gaming Interface System) was created
on this very PC with the use of Eclipse Java SE IDE (for the coding, testing,
and layout design) and Launch4J (for the deployment into .exe file). Its main
purpose is to launch the 10 video game emulators used in CUBIES II PC without
the need of the 10 shortcuts from the 10 video game emulators.
It was also in CUBIES II PC that
the CUBIES Website (www.cubies.org) was born. It was created using Adobe
Dreamweaver CC (with the page content in HTML5, design and styling from CSS3,
server-side scripting from PHP7, and countdown from JavaScript) and was locally
hosted on this PC thru Apache Httpd Server. It contains all the information
pertaining to the CUBIES Game. Its home page shows the birthplace of the CUBIES
Game at the University of the East Manila with a countdown below for the
current and the next Cubisiad, the History page details the development of the
CUBIES Project, the Symbols page is being observed at each Games of the
Cubisiad celebrated annually in different CUBIES Host City, the Celebrations
page which contains the wallpaper (enhanced and edited in Adobe Photoshop CC),
the anniversary blog, and the theme song of that year’s Cubisiad, the
Federations page contains all the 14 participating Video Game Emulators with
the year they first participated at Games of the Cubisiad, and finally the
Downloads page allows the user to download the two versions of the CUBIES Game
(in .zip file format), the required Java software tools (Java Standard Edition
Version 6 and Sun Java Wireless Toolkit Version 2.5.2_01), and the Official PDF
Documentation of the CUBIES Game Software Project.
In the near future, the CUBIES II
PC will be subjected to the exploration and use of many other software such as
Adobe Creative Cloud, continuous learning of programming skills enhancement
with Java EE 7 through the use of many Java web frameworks such as Spring 5
Framework, Hibernate, Primefaces, EclipseLink, Weld, and others, and to use
virtualization through Oracle VM VirtualBox to run a virtual Ubuntu Linux v18.04
Desktop (64-Bit) within the native OS which is Windows 10.
Once again, HAPPY CUBIES DAY!!!
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