In 2001 I made a C64 game called Minima – a small role-playing game, sort of a Mini-Ultima. I managed to squeeze it under 2k, submitted it to the 2001 Minigame Competition, and won! In 2003 I bloated it up to almost 4k with some new features, and submitted it to the 2003 competition as […]
Been away too long – I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time reading sci-fi and working on an ultra-kewl top-secret project lately. I’ve always liked old science fiction – stuff from the 1800s and early-ish 1900s, like Journey to the Center of the Earth. So I did a bit of looking into Science […]
There’s more to me than video games – that’s just what I usually blog about. But maybe you’d like to know some other stuff about me? If so, read on… I’ve been married for 7 years to my wife, Carla. We have 4 children, named Rianna (age 6), Heidi (5), Peter (3), and Benjamin (1). […]
Found some decent stuff at the Value Village today – another 15″ VGA monitor for $6 (it’s handy having an extra extra monitor for working on people’s computers here at home, since my extra has been indefinitely loaned to my church, when that monitor blew up a couple months ago), bicycle training wheels for $3 […]
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with sports. As a kid, I remember doing a lot of physical activity – riding my bike around for hours at a time, or running to and from school (partly because I could, and partly so I could be at home as long as possible to watch TV or […]
I received my order from Atari Age earlier this week – so I’m now the proud owner of Tree Wave’s “cabana ep+” CD that I was talking about earlier. It has a couple of extra tracks, and a couple videos as well that you can watch if you put the CD in a modern computer. […]
64HDD allows you to turn an older DOS-based computer (minimum of a 386sx/25, which you can probably find out at the dump, or in a back alley somewhere) into a hard drive for your 8-bit Commodore computer, using an X-Cable. I’m especially interested since MagerValp pointed out that a DOS machine can share drives over […]
I’ve been continuing to list my game collection in an Excel file – since I’ve done all my cartridges and CDs, I’m moving on to my floppy disk based software. I’ve got thousands of C-64 5.25″ disks, and within that collection are hundreds of original commercial (like, non-copied, non-pirated) disks. Much of my collection has […]