| Date (yyyymmdd) | Comment |
| 20080720 |
Vacation time; every thing is very slow at work.... Otherwise not a lot seems to happen eighter... I decided to visit a commodore retro meeting next month. I will be traveling with a friend of mine, and maybe somebody new. If all goes well (with the new person) maybe we are going to start our own local retro-group. The plan is to make it a general retro-club (msx, apple, atari) as opposed to commodore only. This friend of mine showed me his catweasel diskinterface. Might be interesing for my 8 bit apple. He also showed me a CF MMC to IDE interface card with he was using for his amiga. These interfaces are quite new. I think they could be a hit. Not only for the very retro computers but also for old-PC's. They are not that expensive, so maybe your old PC is worth the investment. You can fit it in a smaller case. It is lighter, more silent etc than the old hard disk (and possible even faster). You can even have it look like a PCI card with the option of swapping the mem-card from the outside. Easy for booting different linux distro's or other OS's without bootloader. Been fooling around with making a javascript game. Finally I am using animated Gifs; but only for moving background. Using a flash wedge for cross-browser compatible sound. Doing key-detection; need to incorporate that into my drawing-tool that I still haven't finished. Keep finding new stuff when working on new projects that I want to incorporate into old projects. I am using a sort of a commodore sprite, instead of the vector based stuff I was working with so far. Also I am using a 320 *200 canvas so it should get a real c64 feel. The game features an airplane. At the moment it can fire rockets. My 3 year old son loves it. Got me wandering why I my first choice was a violent kind of shooting game. Of course my kid loves it. For educational purposes something less violent would have been better. Just have to mention; bought a 1.5 inch digital picture frame for 13 Euro. It's a keychain kind of toy. It comes with a mini-Cd with upload software to upload pictures from PC via USB. The battery is also charged through USB and lasts about 5 hours. It stores up to 70 bmp's or jpg's. And it can also tell the time of day! |