I recently discovered this youtube channel by Kim Justice.  She does quite a few video documentaries about retro games, and the like.  I found these two quite interesting:

The history of US Gold was quite interesting, along with her documentary on Ocean

And of course this video about the ZX Spectrum tape wars.

I had a Commodore 64, and although I did have a 1541 disk drive first, I did later manage to get a datacasette, and on rare occasion I would pick up a Zzap64 and did quite enjoy the whole idea of a covertape.  The tradition continues in the UK & EU with cover discs, which I pick up on occasion in Hong Kong.

Welcome to the internet…

I don’t do advertising, as I know I don’t get that much in the way of traffic.  If anyone cared it’s just over 1.7 million hits a year (break it down, it’s not much!  Were only talking about slightly more than three hits every minute!).  But I saw that my Apache on Windows NT 3.1 is averaging 100 hits a day, and I saw that I’d been scraped and mirrored on 126kr.com ..Oddly enough they didn’t scrape the Apache site.

Very odd.

First I was pissed, but you know as they say you can’t keep anything original on the internet, so just embrace it.  Inadvertently they do link back to the NT Apache, which then links back to me.  I guess I only care that there may be other things that readers may find interesting that 126kr hasn’t mirrored yet.

Oh well.

Disk command errors

I forgot just how crap pci ide controllers and disks can be.

I installed using Qemu 0.9 and having it drive the disk directly.   Naturally, MS-DOS works fine.

Phases of the moon, compiled for 68020 & 68881

As always, fun time to drag out the phases of the moon!

Source code is available at the main site acme.com

Maybe this will work, maybe it won’t.

I know one thing right off is that the quake server status is ‘mixed content’ aka it’s retrieved over http.

The new version of Chrome is going to start alerting to non HTTPS sites, so it’s only a matter of time before everyone else starts to require it.. Sigh.

Game Maker 1.4 for $15!

The bundle includes:

• GameMaker: Studio Pro
• HTML5 Module
• Android Module
• iOS Module
• Windows UWP Module

At the $15 level plus some games + source code.  Over at reddit they have it as approximately $1,800 worth of software.

Click here for more info:

Of course the chatter is that 2.0 is around the corner, but for $15 this seems too good to pass up.

Plus they have Tropico 4 for free..

Free!…