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Coomodork was a great book all around. I'm curious though if you had much experience with the pre-Internet stand alone services? I'm thinking of Compuserve, Prodigy, and Q-Link (which became PC-Link, then AOL). They required a slightly less technical level to get into (though you still had to confi...

I don't have my Commodore hooked up in the new house yet, but I have a spot for it and I started working on this project again.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell ... I'm a dummy.

I fixed the link to 113. That should fully work now.

The correct iTunes link is http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/you-dont-know-flack/id368604225 -- I'll update that right now, too.

While the bidirectional setting is louder, it also gives a slight reverberation echo as it's recording my voice as it bounces off the wall, I think. Maybe I am using the directional setting incorrectly. I'll do some more playing. In the meantime, check out the latest episode (113) and tell me what y...

I'll be honest with you. I don't think it's the best episode I've ever recorded, but it's done and it got things rolling so I can now move on to the next one.

Episode 113 is Online. You Don't Know Flack is back on track with Episode 113, which is about my personal experiences with Apple computers. The podcast spans my experiences dating back to the early 1980s to my current stash of iPods and iPhones. You Don't Know Flack Podcast: http://podcast.robohara...

I did some preliminary tests (including a short bit for the Retroist's annual Halloween podcast) and I have to say it sounds pretty good. the microphone has a dial with four physical recording options (omnidirectional, unidirectional, bidirectional, and one other one). On the Retrobits podcast I use...

I was using a Shure 57, running into a small Behringer (4 channel? 6 channel?) mixing board. I have a Mackie 24x4 board in the closet but ... a little overkill for a podcast. ;)

I ordered a new microphone, which should get the podcast back in business. There will be a full-fledged blog entry about the new mic, but the short version is, the new mic should arrive early next week, and a new episode of You Don't Know Flack will be posted before the end of October.

I PROMISE.

Thanks for checking it out, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! AOHell, yeah ... good times. When I was writing Commodork I didn't think about co-workers and/or my boss ever picking up a copy. Nobody's ever mentioned the AOHell stuff (which we were doing from work) but, uh ... yeah. It all worked out. For ...

Okay so, here's a good example. Last night/this morning, I released a collection of Commodore disks that have never been released before. Commodore people find this pretty exciting. Actually, it is pretty exciting and I'll post about it over in the computer forum. Anyway, when I released it, I wrote...

Sadly I lost track of the exact numbers, but I think it's around 1,200. You're right, the printed ones are easy to track. Lulu keeps track of those, and for Commodork it's right at 1,000 while Invading Spaces is much less. When you start getting into eBook versions, it's difficult to track. For Comm...

I originally promoted the book on Digital Press, the only forum I was really active on at the time. I debuted the book at OVGE 2006 and, between Digital Press, OVGE attendees, and friends and family, I sold about 20 copies. I figured if the thing ever sold 100 copies it would be a miracle. Then, Jas...

I would pay fifty bucks for a coffee table book of C64 game reviews. Ever stand in line at Barnes & Noble? Infested with oversize books about the STUPIDEST stuff. This would be classy! When is Commodork 2 coming out? I want the hardcover.... I just checked Lulu, and for a 138 page book in full ...

I've been trying to come up with a better name for this book. Once I get the name down, serious work will commence on it. What I need are two things that are opposites, but that also somehow relate to the Commodore, or computers, or games, or something. Again, the theme is, the book will have 32 goo...

I am not low on podcast ideas. I am low on dedicated podcast time.

To make things easier I set up a dedicated podcast machine which was a terrible idea because it's upstairs and I rarely go up there.

I suck. I've had a recorded episode on my machine upstairs for a month that ICJ took time out of his weekend to record with me and I've not yet released it. I will do that over the next few days.

Bug reports are still coming in, although they've slowed to a trickle. I had six or seven play the game and send in bug reports. People found everything from minor typos to major game-affecting bugs, all of which have been patched at this point. I've got one more person I'm waiting on to play throug...

Although I'm still finishing up the last room, the game should now be playable from beginning to end.

ICJ ran through the first half of the game and found several bugs. I have fixed all of those, so things are looking good good good!

We recorded the podcast the day before I left for vacation. I will finish it up Wednesday evening and post it Thursday. This one has taken far too long to get out the door.

I only got a response back from one beta tester. That person found several bugs, which I have corrected. Hopefully I can finish the game up this week and release it next Monday.

Quiet, you.

I'd say the programming is 90% done. I hope to finish the last bit of coding up tomorrow evening, which will give me the weekend to tidy up a few loose ends. That will give you goons a full week to beta test it before I release it to the general public.

Over the past two days I have almost finished the second half of the game. I still have the final puzzle to program, but almost everything else is done. I'm going on vacation next week, so my goal is to post a beta version online Monday morning and let people play test it for a week before I do a fi...

Robb Sherwin and I plan on recording the next episode (via Skype) the week of March 8th.