A couple weeks ago I heard a weird rustling sound coming from the furnace room which joins on to my geek room. I crept in (feeling a bit extra anxious/wired because I had pulled another all-nighter to meet a deadline on the game I’m working on) and found that the sound was coming from behind […]
Note: This is a slightly revised version of what I posted on lemon64.com – cheap, I know… Well, I had my last class (4 classes in total) yesterday. We had a bunch of fun modifying the simple “Row Your Boat Ashore” song program from the C64 User’s Guide, making all kinds of noise. Then I […]
I’ve been thinking about doing this for years, and I’ve finally done it. I set up a small lab of Commodore 64s (4 of them), got a bunch of kids from our homeschool group to sign up (8 of them, ages 8-12 or so), and have been teaching them how to program in BASIC for […]
I’ve been staying up late some nights lately, coding for pay on a really cool project. More about that sometime. Of course, late night programming requires fuel. Two quick stories about that: For food I always choose microwave heated left-overs, if available. Our microwave (a wedding gift, so circa 1996) has a cute feature: when […]
Wandering through Superstore, I saw one of those big 4′ square bargain bins full of books. Quite surprisingly, it was full of computer books – not just Windows for Dummies, either, but programming books, and plenty about game programming! Because I can’t program, I’ve been doing what I can to rectify the problem, so I […]
C64hq has had a lot of cool exclusive material over the last few years. The most recent addition is the “Commodore C64C Introductory Audio Tape” made in 1990. As they mention on the website, it’s “very British”. If you like the C-64 and the narration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll probably like […]
The 2006 C-64 Crap Game Compo has been launched, and three games have already been entered. The goal this year is to get 50 games entered so they can be put together in a compilation called Cassette 50 Reloaded which will be sold through Cronosoft, the 8-bit games publisher that’s too cheap to even pay […]
I’ve been searching on and off for quite a few months for a good free program to build an online database – without programming. I want to build a website similar in structure to imdb.com, but more focused on my interests and collections, especially car combat games, apocalypse movies, and where the two intersect. I […]
If you’re looking for discussion about Commodore programming, check out the Secret Society of Commodore Coders forum. It was started by Dave Moorman of Loadstar last year, and had some good discussion going. Dave’s recently made me an admin, and I’m trying to stir up discussion again, so if you can think of any relevant […]
I was waiting for someone to leave comments like that, Richard and Erinose. Eventually, I would have left a similar comment myself! I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the PAL (European TV standard) version of the C64 30-games-in-one joystick. The rest of the time I’ve been thinking about what I should […]