Well, my Blackberry Storm is sitting idle in its own cradle; it’s man-genius click-screen days are all over. It has been replaced by a smarter phone, Droid X. I won’t bore you with all its technical details charms, but highlight only the things I find of interest. And there are a lot of things of [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Smarter Phone
Jul 31
Atarileaf’s Video Review
Jul 23
I ran across this avid YouTube poster and retro gamer fan from Canada who was showcasing his latest find in Omega Race on the VIC 20. Great video review, so after a few emails exchanged, I shipped a couple of cassette tapes housing my homebrew video games in Berzerk MMX, Omega Fury, and Quikman+. Watch [...]
Retro Gamer Review
Jul 21
Issue #77 arrived the other day with a nice review of my homebrew game, Berzerk MMX. I do not think I will go to such extremes getting in scanned and printed as before with the Quikman 2008 review, but I will transcribe it here because of its brevity (not that I am complaining, it was [...]
New High Score!
Jul 1
Yes, it is a rare treat to surpass my typical game-playing abilities, and today I set a personal best score at my Quikman video game. I think it helped playing it on a real VIC 20, too, although it really should not matter. Perhaps there is old muscle memory kicking in from squeezing the bat-handled [...]
