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Unfortunate News for a Realtime Blackberry Mixer {11-23-2010}

Overview Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad one, but I have the kind of personality that when I get involved trying to solve a problem, I can’t stop until it’s solved. This works out well as eventually the issue at hand is fixed, but it also has the side [...]

Congratulations and Website Updates! {11-06-2010}

First off, big congratulations to @merman1974, the winner of the Synthetic Dreams Spooktacular Giveaway Contest! We got lots of turnout and made a number of cool, new retro-friends on Twitter. Next, speaking of Twitter, some website news. I’ve cleaned some clutter off the front page a bit, and added a Twitter feed as well. I’m [...]

Shredz64 at NJ Science and Engineering Festival {10-23-2010}

A quick notice for you in the NJ area tomorrow (10/24/10) – Jeff Brace and the gang at MARCH (Mid Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists) will be demonstrating Shredz64 at the NJ Science and Engineering Festival in Clifton, NJ. This is the second time Jeff and MARCH have been kind enough to show off our game [...]

Player Videos of Shredz64 in Action {10-04-2010}

It’s always a blast to see people enjoying the game – here are a couple of videos posted by some dedicated Shredz64 players. The first is a nice and detailed video by Arkanoid_376970 who does much better on Zak McKracken than I could hope to: The next is by Anders C who was kind enough [...]

Win a Free PSX64 Interface and Help a Great Cause! {09-29-2010}

If you’ve been following along on the blog, you’ll know that I recently got a Twitter account. Yeah – I was definitely one of the hold outs. But – I wanted a place to post little tidbits that weren’t really blog worthy, but were interesting none-the-less, and Twitter is the perfect place for that. Plus, [...]

Shredz64 – Check It Out at Maker Faire This Weekend! {09-20-2010}

First off, before I make the plug – if you haven’t checked out MAKE or the Maker Faire before, you TOTALLY should. There are a lot of imaginative people with a ton of amazing, brilliant, or just plain zany creations. It’s very cool stuff. And speaking of Maker Faire – if you’re around NYC this [...]

My Newest Robotic Buddy, Vincent (CompuRobot) {09-18-2010}

It’s not uncommon if you love programming, computers, tinkering, and all things electronic, that you also have a love for robots. I am not unique in this regard! I’m a fan of programmable bots in general (I have a few of the Lego mindstorm robots, including the newer NXT). Recently, my friend Ryan gave me [...]

Shredz64 at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo {09-13-2010}

Just a heads up, if you’re around the Portland, OR area this weekend (September 18-19), stop by the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Not only does it promise to have TONS of retro games, hardware, and general awesomeness to play and buy, but the Commodore Computer Club and Users Group of Vancouver, WA will be at [...]

PSX64 – Rev B (ATmega168) Firmware Update {09-12-2010}

Since no boards with the ATmega168 have been shipped out, this shouldn’t affect anyone, but if you happened to build your own board in the last few days and used firmware 1.1b for it – you’ll want to update it to 1.2b found here. The ATmega168 appears to access its flash memory at a different [...]

10 Reasons the Commodore 64 Will Never Die {09-10-2010}

As some of you might have guessed by now, I’m pretty heavily into retro computers. I love them all in different ways, but the C64 holds a very special place in my heart in particular. It was my very first computer (and my only machine for 8 years) – and it introduced me into a [...]

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