I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
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RSS- I like working on the tail because it’s at eye level. #myzenith750
- I haven’t been this pleased with a new keyboard since I got my Happy Hacker in 1999. Cherry Mx Brown switches for the win.
- Welp, it's supposed to snow the next 15 hours, somewhere in the 5 inches range. I think I'll watch TV. HAHAHAHA, right. My 6502 Breadboard computer needs to be moved to some PCBs. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to solder we go…
- My “The64 mini” will be going into my airplane panel soon (I can’t bring myself to cannibalize one of my real machines) but for now it’s become the calculator on my desk. This 7 inch screen is also going into the plane. #commodore #c64
- So far your score resets to zero if you don't stay VFR and the fire button changes the plane color. I made a list of gameplay I'm going to add a little at a time. It even sorta looks like a Zenith which wasn't easy with a 24x21 pixel sprite limitation.
- Phone apps are cool I guess, but I’ve always been a hardware device person. These make regular rotations on my desk. Hat tip to my son for the mechanical stopwatch.
- Persistence paying off
- My sprites sorta look like my Zenith, not bad for the first crack at it. #commodore #c64 #myzenith750
- Might as well put a Commodore in the airplane… screen design concept #1…
- Did you do that on real hardware? · imapenguin
- The new video series has been in production while on my "break" (I've never been good at breaks anyway). I've forgotten how long post-production takes even with great tools. Anyway, very pleased so far.
- My Color Maximite 2 and Raspberry Pi 400 are sharing this 8 inch screen now. Perfect setup for both machines and doesn’t take up a ton of room.
- How do you feel about snow Elli? I ate some.
- Feel a little like Ralphie this morning. Merry Christmas
- Merry Christmas · imapenguin
- I haven’t been able to get over the USB-C only ports on my MacBook. Seems like a good idea on the drawing board, but practically it’s a mess. God forbid you want to use your laptop in your lap AND plug in an SD card at the same time. #willibreakittoday
- My DOScember pick for the best DOS Software · imapenguin
- For #doscember my favorite DOS software is STSPlus by the late Dave Ransom. This was a fixture on my computer screen for many years. Still works ;)
- 9am on the first weekday of Christmas vacation and finished my One Time Pad program on the Commodore 64. This is the first Assembly program I’ve ever competed to a 1.0 version. #Commodore64 #c64 #commodore
- This centerpiece protected by trains.