It seems I never got posting the final bit from my unfinished alternate history of video games novel, so here it is: Another contender for the title of “first computer game†is Professor Bruce MacKenzie’s pioneering “5-Pin Bowling Season Simulator†game, also written in 1946, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Prof. MacKenzie had both […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I’m 33.33333333 etc. years old, at about 6:40 p.m. according to my slightly rough calculations.
My union went on strike for three weeks during the summer of 1997, so I was left with more spare time and less money than usual. So I took the opportunity to make a game for the C64. I chose to port the classic Atari 2600 game Frogs and Flies since Carla and I had […]
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 […]
I loved Lego as a kid. It was my favourite thing to play with, not including electronic type stuff. I got back into Lego in a big (and somewhat expensive) way during the summer of 2001, and for the next two, maybe three years spent a lot of my spare time buying, selling, sorting and […]
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 […]