My relationship with code has changed a lot over the past 30 years. The process of putting an idea on a computer screen has always thrilled me, ever since the time of staying up late writing MadLibs programs in QBasic with my friends. I've been writing code professionally for nearly …
cat assemble.txt
So I've made some pretty decent progress, I think, though at the same time I'm beginning to learn that I have a very long way to go before I can make a real full-featured game. The resource that gave me the biggest jump-start was definitely Famicom Party. Using that book …
cat nes_dev.txt
After more than a year of no posts, I've decided to use this space again as a journal while I work on my new goal for 2022: to build an NES game. As I collect and play more games for the system, I've come to appreciate the amount of effort …
cat quake2.txt
Still rolling around in a giant pile of nostalgia I decided to dig through files on a pile of old hard drives I had lying around. My chief goal was to find my old Quake 2 installation so I could recover my former collection of player models, skins, maps, and …
cat curate.txt
I collect video games. Right now I'm hovering around 1,300 titles spanning 30 physical platforms. It's not a massive collection compared to others that strive for completeness, but it's also a lot more than I can ever reasonably enjoy. Even though there are items in my collection that I'm …
cat COVID_cleanup.txt
Being a sane person in this era of COVID lockdowns seems to be the quickest way to go insane. Like many people (but at the same time, not nearly enough people) I've been staying at home with my family. I work from home. My wife helps my kids with their …
cat reboot.txt
It is, once again, time for me to scratch that domain-registration itch.
I often feel that I'm not a real nerd without a web site and my own domain, even though I rarely do anything interesting them. I don't think I've put any effort into a site since the days …