Funny short story: today, a CMD HD with 80-megabyte storage solution for the Commodore 64/128 just sold for $375 shipped on ebay. That comes to roughly $4800 per gigabyte, with NO manual and NO warranty. I was tempted earlier today at BestBuy for a 1-terabyte storage solution that connects to your home router for one-button [...]
Archive for March, 2010
The Price of Storage
Mar 28
Moving to DynDNS
Mar 20
After switching to FiOS, it was time to move my domain, hurst-ri.us, from a solid provider in dotEarth to a new location with DynDNS. The reason for the move is because I would no longer be able to co-locate with my brother’s store, rah-cocos.com, as he prepares to close his store/warehouse — along with [...]
Running VICE
Mar 13
VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators. For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers. Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]
Berzerk MMX
Mar 5
Today, I release another arcade classic clone for the venerable Commodore VIC 20. This time it is based on the 1980 Stern hit, Berzerk. It did not take 24-years to complete like Quikman possessed me, just a mere couple of months between commuter rail rides and some weekend tinkering. Still, it came out pretty good [...]
