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Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”
Allow me introduce you to the “Thieves Guild Emulator,” a graphical front-end client for the Atari ST BBS game “Thieves Guild.” (Update: I have replaced the original video I posted with a new version that includes the game’s sound effects, as well as some gory combat) It took me a long time to reach the…
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A Star Trek font for the new Star Wars movie?
So, Star Wars episode VII has a title: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” And while fans everywhere are eagerly discussing the title, I was more interested in the font they used for the title. Nerdy, I know, but I’m a designer by trade. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has completed principal photography. #StarWarsVII #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/mFTP9YbKNN…
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The vicious circles of Google Plus
For the last couple years, my wife Yoli has used Talkatone along with a free Google Voice phone number in order to make and receive calls using our iPad. It was never a perfect system, but it was free, and mostly worked. Well, Google has apparently turned off third-party access to Google Voice, so Talkatone…
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Introducing my new game, “Doubles”
Remember how I mentioned in a previous post that I was writing two new BBS doors? One was called “Jewel Mountain,” an experimental project I’m making for my daughter; the other was “Sports Stats,” which would let users see standings and scores for baseball and basketball. Well, a third project came up and leapfrogged those…
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Mother’s Day: “Mom and Me” for the Atari ST
As Mother’s Day approached, I suddenly remembered two very old programs for the Atari ST which I had fooled around with as a kid. “Murray and Me” and “Mom and Me” were written by Yakov Kirschen, who called his creations “biotoons.”
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ATASCII animations
You know a computer technique is old school when it was considered old-fashioned in 1985.
