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 [...]
Archive for category Pastime
New High Score!
Jul 1
Harmony
Jun 13
My wife bought me this Harmony cartridge for my Atari video console system as a birthday present gadget. Like the Mega-Cart for VIC 20, it boots a friendly front-end menu for all the cartridge images stored within it. But unlike the pre-installed ROM in Mega-Cart, Harmony sports a SD flash memory reader and allows me [...]
Day 3 came and we played two courses at Myrtle Beach National: the South and West. The weather held out nicely, with a morning haze and steady breeze keeping it a lot cooler than yesterday. It got hot and sunny in the early afternoon, but the big clouds came through — no rain — but [...]
Day 2 was different in many ways. First, it was hot… very hot. The two courses played much more difficult than Wild Wing, and with the accompanying heat, it just sucked the life out of you. I played Wachesaw East by starting off with my first lost ball and triple-bogey, followed by my first three-putt [...]
Myrtle Beach: Wild Wing
Jun 4
Today, we played the Avocet course. The weather held out nicely, staying hot with an occasional cooling breeze. The golf carts were stocked with personal ice coolers with water bottles and ball washing equipment, The course was in pristine condition and their layout encompassed a large contingent of real estate, so the course, clubhouse, range [...]
