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- January 9th, 2018, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Those Kids Just Don’t Know
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10599
Re: Those Kids Just Don’t Know
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 ...
- January 9th, 2018, 8:11 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Those Kids Just Don’t Know
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10599
Re: Those Kids Just Don’t Know
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...
- January 9th, 2018, 8:06 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 121: Thrifting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12056
Re: Episode 121: Thrifting
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...
- August 9th, 2017, 7:34 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 037: Wizball
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4860
Re: Sprite Castle 037: Wizball
Flack wrote:Realms of Impossibility for weeks on end.
Do that one.
- July 26th, 2017, 7:14 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle -- Call for Suggestions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6919
Re: Sprite Castle -- Call for Suggestions
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.
- May 19th, 2017, 8:01 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 034: BC’s Quest for Tires
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3402
Re: Sprite Castle 034: BC’s Quest for Tires
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...
- August 22nd, 2016, 7:22 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 178: Y2K
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8180
Re: YDKF Episode 178: Y2K
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...
- July 6th, 2016, 4:40 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 031: Complete Computer Fireworks Celebration K
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3066
Re: Sprite Castle 031: Complete Computer Fireworks Celebrati
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.
- July 6th, 2016, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 031: Complete Computer Fireworks Celebration K
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3066
Re: Sprite Castle 031: Complete Computer Fireworks Celebrati
What do you have set up for that (I presume) ANSI art display?
- July 3rd, 2016, 8:14 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Weird Science (1985)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3944
Re: Weird Science (1985)
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 ...
- August 11th, 2015, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2054
Re: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
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...
- August 11th, 2015, 9:16 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2054
Re: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
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.
- August 11th, 2015, 9:12 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2054
Re: YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems
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...
- July 26th, 2015, 7:15 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 014: 720
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2143
Re: Sprite Castle 014: 720
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.
This was a good podcast; something unique about the game (in this case two ports) keeps the interest level up.
- July 1st, 2015, 4:03 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1801
Re: Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th
I just used your combined feed; perfect:
- July 1st, 2015, 3:59 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1801
- July 1st, 2015, 6:59 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1801
Re: Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th
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?
- June 20th, 2015, 3:26 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 012: Commando
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2245
Re: Sprite Castle 012: Commando
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.
- June 2nd, 2015, 9:52 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: 64 Bites!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10107
Re: 64 Bites!
Soooooo.... :-)
My guess is that you are enjoying doing your podcasts and this project is back-burner. :-)
My guess is that you are enjoying doing your podcasts and this project is back-burner. :-)
- May 12th, 2015, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1805
Re: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
Well, makes sense.
- May 12th, 2015, 7:25 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1805
Re: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
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.
- May 12th, 2015, 7:19 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1805
Re: Sprite Castle 011: Jumpman
Cici's Pizza to Jumpman -- you are the king of segues.
- May 5th, 2015, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 160: Raiders of the Lost Garage
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2117
Re: YDKF Episode 160: Raiders of the Lost Garage
I could just make the 2 hour drive and see for myself. :-)
- May 5th, 2015, 9:59 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 160: Raiders of the Lost Garage
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2117
Re: YDKF Episode 160: Raiders of the Lost Garage
I want video on this one.
- April 9th, 2015, 11:47 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 25893
Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
Into the Eagle's Nest is a cool Nazi-themed Gauntlet-style game. You should do an ep on that one.