I am always amazed when I have some time to really listen to Beethoven’s Ninth symphony and imagine him composing that beautiful complexity while being stone deaf. May you all master your own craft to such an extent that you can create great work without the full faculty of your senses! Check out this amazing…
Month: January 2022
8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 2
Let the fun begin! Now that I had a working Commodore 64, I was extremely excited to explore the programs and games from a earlier time in personal computing. I didn’t have a floppy disk drive for this Commodore, but I did have the original data cassette (or datasette) tape drive and using that I…
8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 1
One of my earliest memories of using a personal computer was hanging out at my friend Mike Wolter’s house in 1986 and playing the text adventure game Zork on his Commodore 64. I vividly remember the ritual of taking the floppy disk out of its paper envelope and inserting it carefully into the disk drive….