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Simple brain exercise that may boost your short term memory (open-source, feel free to tinker with it) (shawnpresser.blogspot.com)
7 points by palish on May 1, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


I actually created a version of this in ARC (Yes! ARC!) just yesterday. See the arc forum http://arclanguage.org/item?id=6467

Mine is less faithful to the original though (but still has the visual and auditory component) and is not very fancy or polished. On the plus side, it's only 70 lines of code and runs on Ubuntu :-)


Doesn't work for me. Win XP pro on a 32-bit machine.

I get an error called "NBack has encountered a problem and needs to close."

Edit: Same problem on a Vista system. I know this isn't a tech support forum, but I wanted to let other readers know that they aren't alone if they're encountering troubles.


Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing. The Reddit thread is full of people really interested in this idea but unable to run the program due to some incompatibility or another. I did this in Direct3D because I didn't know Flash and thought I could get it done faster in D3D. Well.. I could, and that was a big mistake. The end result is way worse than the time delay it would've taken me to learn Flash.

Hopefully someone finds the source code useful, or inspiring, or somehow some good can come out of this. It's just frustrating that I can't solve these issues for people.

You might want to try making sure you have the latest Direct3D components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da...


I managed to get it to work, and after messing around with it for a little while I've come to the conclusion that I really suck at this game.




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