Archive for November, 2009

GP2x Wiz

Here are some pictures of my (early) Christmas gift running my VIC 20 games: Click for hi-res image:

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Fedora 12

Constantine installed flawlessly as a partition alongside my Vista64 disks.  Visibly, there are a few improvements that I won’t bother reiterating here, but it makes the desktop experience incrementally better.  And the boot-up process remains reasonably quick. Of special interest to me was the 2D/3D accelerated open source support of my Radeon HD 3870 x2 [...]

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Team first?

Bill Belichick claims he doesn’t understand how you can complete a pass like that and not gain a yard.  It will become obvious to him when he watches the coach’s film today — you needed TWO yards, not ONE.  Didn’t you have enough time to see that?  Well, you should have called for one of [...]

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NIH Syndrome

Being a venerable jockey on the internet for over the past 15-years, I thought I saw it all when it came to such technical acronyms.  But today, NIH was New To Me, so I went looking for its definition and came upon some interesting application of it in differing industries of this all-too-human condition. Of [...]

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Omega Fury

This past winter I envisioned making a sequel to the Bally-Midway arcade hit, Omega Race, and a favorite among many VIC 20 users when Commodore bought the licensing rights to make its home computer versions.  Three months later, I released a beta version of the fully playable game.  At the time, I did not think [...]

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