Trying out Recalbox and Batocera

Today I decided to play around with the new version of Recalbox on one of my Raspberry Pis and Batocera on an old Intel Core 2 Duo Mac mini. Recalbox First up was the Raspberry Pi. Setting up Recalbox was a piece of cake. I used balenaEtcher to image a …

Using Github Issues for comments

For publishing this website, I use Pelican, a static website generator. Publishing a static website has many advantages, such as no databases required and the ability to host for free on Github. The biggest downside is the lack of commenting on...

Trying to get a BBS running

Over the last few days, I've attempted to get a BBS up and going on one of my 8-bits. The original plan was to find a BBS that would run under SDX. I have an older MyIDE+Flash cart with a 256MB IDE drive which isn't being used right now …

Learning cc65

Tonight I've taken my first plunge into finally learning cc65 and writing software for the A8. I'm attempting to convert my ten liner from the ABBUC 2014 contest over to c. Here's the first part, it redefine's the character set to be inverse:...

Crack My Luggage Update 1

In my original upload it didn't quite solve the puzzle correctly, leading to frustrating users. :-) A fixed copy is availabe here.

Crack My Luggage - Turbobasic XL ten liner

After seeing Bill Kendrick's Minijong I knew I had to go back and re-work GozMind. I stole.. I mean, borrowed, Bill's character redefinition ideas, and replaced the symbols with the number 1-6. The result is Crack My Luggage. Introduction Silly...

GozMind - My 10 liner for the NOMAM 2014 competition

Over Christmas break I really started to get back into using my Atari 800xl. I got my MyIDE+Flash set up to work with Action! because I've always wanted to learn it. Then I read about the BASIC Ten-Liners - Contest 2014. I had a snow day today, so I am …