Jason Compton suggested I port Einar Saukas’ “Tenliner Cave Adventure” game for the ZX81 to the VIC-20. So I did! If you’d like to play it yourself, you can download various versions of the game here: The original ZX81 game My port to Commodore BASIC Jason’s port to Ozmoo Jason’s port to Bitshifter .z3 file […]
Welcome, patient reader, to an update at long last. I want to tell you about my latest band, called Bedford Level Experiment. We’re launching our website today! Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com/ Our music is almost all about geeky subjects dear to my heart, such as Commodore 64, Atari 2600, other old computers and video games, […]
I see another year has gone by since I last blogged. What have I done this past year? Let’s see… My company P1XL Games released another iOS game, called 4NR. It’s a platform game with a classic Game Boy style, with some puzzle/discovery mechanics. I’m pretty proud of it. One of my bands, Ziklag Offramp, […]
Wow – over two years since I’ve blogged! I tried to update last year, but in mid-2010 my blog suddenly broke: only the header and title of my entries would appear, all the body was just blank. So, I finally backed up the blog’s database, upgraded to the latest WordPress, jumped through a few hoops, […]
I’ve kind of taken this week off from my “game of life”, but I still do need to post about the previous week. Later. I keep a text editor open all the time on my laptop, and jot little notes down in it whenever I have a thought. Sometimes weeks go by between computer reboots […]
Long, long ago, I had a can or two of Pineapple Crush at Darren’s house. His dad worked for the local Pepsi distributor and they handled the various Crush varieties at the time. Pineapple Crush is a real oddity in most of North America, and I don’t know how a case ended up in Thunder […]
I’ve blogged about it before, but Darren’s post today got me doing a bit more googling for some old favourite shows. I inaccurately commented on his blog that “…I’ve done some searching online for both Jeremy and Secret Railroad, which along with Dr. Snuggles are my favourite kid’s shows that I can’t watch. The other […]
While flipping through the latest Staples flyer, I dared to read some of the “catchy phrases” that they’ve printed at the bottom of each page. The comment on page 8 reads: We can show you how easy it is to take your technical needs to the next level. This is a mixture of a couple […]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you folks (especially to Alex). I had run out of pre-mixed music that I could get in .mp3 format with the equipment I had at home, so I took a break over the holidays. Exactly 8 years ago today, my C-64 demo group PSW released a C64 demo […]
Week 3 (week 6 if you include all the vacation I took) of my parental leave from work is almost over, and I haven’t accomplished many of the things I had hoped to. In total I wrote about 11,000 words between my two NaNoWriMo novels, way short of the 50,000 word target for the month […]