In the last millennium, I developed a custom Hack & Slash gaming client for Windows ’98, because I wanted to embed both music and sound effects to enhance online play. The result was a big hit among its players. But as a Linux user, I could not get that cool feature… that is, until today. [...]
Posts Tagged Games
Linux Hack & Slash client
Oct 29
TI-99/4A
Mar 5
Just got a few Ebay bundles (all TI oriented) this past week for about $99 shipped to satisfy my tinkering and nostalgic pleasures. An original TI/99 4A computer, boxed, 22 carts (mostly games, extended BASIC, and a couple of learning aids I can use when they put me in a retirement home), BASIC and extended [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
