I’ve heard a bit of complaining about the C64 DTV and bugs it has. Few of them are legitimate – most are unfortunate manufacturing defects that affect some units. There’s the sound problem that one of my four sticks has – go into Hot Dog in Winter Games and if it sounds like the crashing […]
Way way back in 1997, just a little before I became a father, I got a hand-made envelope in the mail, containing a brief letter, and a 5.25″ floppy disk. It was from a ~14 year old Dustin Chambers. He had seen one of the Commodore 64 demos Darren and I had done, it had […]
I stayed up late last night to watch QVC – a US-based shopping channel 🙂 Normally I don’t do such things, but in this case they were selling the joystick that I spent about 9 weeks this summer/early fall working on. Some friends and I were responsible for the software inside the “TV Game”. Pretty […]
TPUG (Toronto PET User’s Group) is the oldest Commodore computer user’s group in Canada, and second oldest in the world, from what I hear. Though they started with the PET (you can see 3 of my PETs in this picture) they moved with Commodore through the VIC-20, Commodore 64, 128, Amiga, and some of the […]
Well, sort of, though you wouldn’t know it. Check out the video here on the QVC website. It’s called “Commodore: Old School” and you’ve gotta click on the yellow button down below. So, where do I appear in that ad? I was the race car driver, the space fighter pilot, the karate guy, the surfer, […]
It was done in a bit of a hurry in response to a friend’s similar pictures, but here’s a sort of virtual tour of my big geek room in the basement. I’ll do a better job of it when time and motivation strike, and my camera batteries are fully charged. Robin’s Geek Room!
I’ve been watching my dad’s house while he’s out of town for a bit, so I’ve been hanging out in my old room at lunch some days. That was my room for nearly 20 years, and being the geek that I am, spent a lot of time there, so it’s filled with memories, mostly good […]
I’ve had this feature here for a while, but I thought I’d point it out. Occasionally I write something here that one of you faithful readers actually wants to forward on to other people (hey, it’s happened, at least once!). Rather than sending them a link to my main blog page, you can send a […]
It’s funny how there seem to be certain unwritten laws about what electronics manufacturers do and don’t include. For example, I bought another DVD player tonight. This one supposedly has progressive scan, so it’ll become the main one I watch movies on, while my other one will go downstairs where the kids watch stuff. Just […]
That’s what my 3 year old son Peter says as his onscreen car is blown to bits once again in Vigilante 8: Second Offence on the Dreamcast. I was sort of surprised that he likes the game as much as he does, at first. But then, how can a typical boy not like racing around, […]