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yeah, that's about the worst place for them. Yes, and I feel terrible about it. :-) I do keep the most important stuff in interior closets. This reminded me of a funny thing. I bought a SX-64 off eBay and the dude who sent it to me did the absolute worst job ever of packaging it. And when I opened ...

I am told this is due to the rubber bands and belts inside that drive the mechanisms. This concerns me about all of the floppy drives I keep in my attic. I don't have anywhere else to store them, and the swing from 0 degrees to 120 degrees can't be good on those things. I had a really cool CD chang...

My local craigslist has a C64 system with disk drive, monitor, and a couple of games listed... for $1,200. I laugh every time I see it, and wonder what he will eventually get/take for it. Every couple of weeks or so, my CL alert shows me that somebody nearby is trying to sell a VIC-20 "Poker&q...

Flack wrote:Realms of Impossibility for weeks on end.

Do that one.

You ain't gonna do this, but: Story Machine by Spinnaker. It needs some love. Played it a bunch when we got our first computer. :-) My brother even carved some of the nouns into my dad's desktop so he could remember how to spell them.

You say this game is not hard. This just reinforces my low opinion of my ability to play these games. We had a copy of this game and played it a lot, and I was horrible at it. I think I may have gotten to the end a couple of times, and I doubt I ever won. It was this and Jungle Hunt, over and over i...

I wonder about that stuff all the time. There's a Starbucks that I go to occasionally where the drive-thru leads behind the building. The entire time you're in line you can see the master power switch, not just for Starbucks but for the entire strip mall. There's no lock on it or anything. You know...

The layout of your video is cool. I like the 1702. This works a lot better than putting your video overlayed with the emulator output.

What do you have set up for that (I presume) ANSI art display?

I ferget the name but it wasn't very believable. You mean my computer won't come to life if I dump liquid on the keyboard? That movie was awful. Since the general public didn't really understand them hollywood was able to make them do anything. This is still true, LOL. The various hacker-themed TV ...

I didn't really get into this on the podcast but I always felt like Windows 3.x was a hindrance more than anything. I could either boot into DOS and copy a file or I could boot into DOS, then load Windows, then copy the file. I felt the same way about Norton Commander and those other "shell-li...

Your story about telling people to press Alt+F4 to change colors reminds me of a prank we used to pull -- take a screen shot of the desktop, set it as the background, and that hide all the icons.

In the late 90s I experimented with many sorts of operating systems. At one point I was convinced that Linux would become very popular due to it being free so I always kept a machine with it running so I could be familiar with it (and maybe write software for it). As it turned out, most consumers ar...

The Tetris ports from Tengen and Nintendo for the NES is an infamous double-port.

This was a good podcast; something unique about the game (in this case two ports) keeps the interest level up.

I just used your combined feed; perfect:

Thanks.

I can find your YDKF podcast on Podcasts! (a Windows 8 podcast app) but not Sprite Castle. Any idea why? Maybe YDKF is listed on a podcast list that Sprite Castle isn't?

Thanks -- listened to this one while I rearranged my office to make room for my C64 setup again. Definitely need to play the new edition of this game.

Soooooo.... :-)

My guess is that you are enjoying doing your podcasts and this project is back-burner. :-)

Well, makes sense.

BTW I know you addressed this before, but why the switch to audio only? When you start talking about the game I want to find video for it... I miss the flack cam.

Cici's Pizza to Jumpman -- you are the king of segues.

I could just make the 2 hour drive and see for myself. :-)

I want video on this one.

Into the Eagle's Nest is a cool Nazi-themed Gauntlet-style game. You should do an ep on that one.