Just pushed a new feature on Southern Amis and AMIS XE, a take on the #FujiNet#ISS tracker live on a #BBS. 5 Hour Tracking showing the station’s positions — plus “Over/Near” location, lat/lon, UTC, other info. #bbsing#atari
I just found concrete evidence that one of the people I most wanted to interview for my 2024 deep-dive into "Instant Graphics and Sound" did actually read the series after it was published. He added a link to it on his website!
It's kind of mind-boggling ... He never responded to a single inquiry I made over 5 years. I had wondered if he was dead, but I never found an obit.
Well, since he's seen my work (and linked to it!), maybe he might re-consider and talk with me.
An update — Steve Turnbull finally wrote back to me! And it turns out, he does still have some of the files and code for the vaporware "Wildcardz" IGS game he was working on.
Tonight I succeeded in bringing a 33-year-old vaporware BBS game back to life!
After Steve Turnbull sent me the C source code to his unfinished IGS blackjack game "Wildcardz!", I ported it to Javascript. Now I can run it on my Synchronet BBS!
It's a really impressive IGS game. I doubt any ANSI BBS card game could compare visually.
More work on this 8-bit game protag. I've named him Gary Greaser. I'm messing with his walk cycle and idle animations. Pondering the game he's going to fit into. #RetroProgramming#8Bit#Atari
I started out on the #TimexSinclair1000 when my parents went to a time-share presentation and received a free gift - a Timex #Sinclair 1000 complete with 16K memory expansion box and 3 applications on cassette.
After that, my friend in junior high showed me Summer Games on the #Commodore#C64 which began the begging to my parents for my own #C64.
My parents finally caved, and on the day they got it, we set it up and I wanted to jump right in. My parents said "Not until you practice your violin for 2 hours" and then left for a social function. I did not practice. I sat on that #C64 for hours.
When they got home, I confessed I did some amazing things on our new computer instead of the violin. They put me on restriction from the computer for 2 weeks. Totally f'n worth it!!!!
Since then I've been a computer geek/nerd. I worked as a sys-admin for a Novell network, but then did DB programming when the company learned I could code. After that I started teaching and also got a job as a Unix sys-admin which morphed into the #CyberSecurity/#InfoSec job which I have today (though I do still teach at the university level).
My goal is to get back into #RetroComputing complete with making videos (see link in my profile), posting tips/tricks, etc, etc, etc. I'm primarily #Commodore at the moment but intend on diving into #Apple], [#Macintosh, #Amiga, #Sinclair, #Atari, and more. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of space or hardware so while I will be doing a few repairs, most of what I do will be software/emulation for now. My hope is to record/document everything from the beginning to be an example for others getting into this hobby.
Hi, fedi creatures. I'm an Atari noob in search for answers.
Today I was dusting off the inside of an Atari 65XE I recently got as a gift and there's something interesting going on around (what I think is) the BASIC ROM. Does anybody have any idea what's that? A repair? A workaround to fit a longer IC into a smaller socket?
Thanks for any feedback. Boosts appreciated. #Atari#Atari8bit#Atari65XE#retro#retrocomputing#starekomputery#retrokomputery#WięcejWęgla
Had fun a few years back with this. Fireplace on for Hours. ALL the windows open in the middle of the night. 😂 -Cheers from Micki & Steve 😎 https://youtube.com/watch?v=NTJ4Gu-ETKE
And finally - as part of our recovery of Thomas The Tank Engine 2:The Race for four different platforms, here is the video for the #Atari edition. (3/3)
For our final update of the year - we present the recovery of Thomas The Tank Engine 2 for #ZXSpectrum, #AmstradCPC and #Atari platforms. First up, here is the Amstrad CPC edition - and we'll post videos shortly for the other platforms too. Enjoy! (1/3)
GTW Highlight No.06: One of our final December updates saw unseen screens from the lost Dropzone 2 on the #Atari + #Commodore64, along with a strange Arcade edition of Dropzone. Also various International Karate protos and IK+ graphical assets too:
this is how they took screenshots of computer applications in the early 80s 😱 for tech docs. today we so many options to capture screenshots and save them as image, gif, or video.
A black and white photo of a man pointing at a cone shaped, light-blocking camera attached to an older computer monitor, which is sitting on top of an keyboard.