Well...I was promoted to Dragonstomper today....so I got that going for me...</h1> <article> <h1>Well...I was promoted to Dragonstomper today....so I got that going for me...</h1> <p>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:16:55 +0000</p> <p> nuff said. </p> </article> <article> <h1>Pilgrimage to hallowed ground...</h1> <p>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:54:43 +0000</p> <p> I will be making a trip to Galloping Ghost this week and will be posting thoughts, photos, and impressions. It's about time I did something with this blog. Stay tuned... </p> </article> <article> <h1>Great birthday present for my 50th...</h1> <p>Thu, 20 May 2021 18:30:19 +0000</p> <p> My daughter painted this and gave it to me yesterday for my birthday... </p> <p> </p> <p> <a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="//content.invisioncic.com/r322239/monthly_2021_05/Caitlin_Atari.jpg.4a5c92d0aaf13589e6f5a5ad5684efa4.jpg" data-fileid="842858" data-fileext="jpg" rel=""></a> </p> </article> <article> <h1>Reminiscing on scale...</h1> <p>Mon, 10 May 2021 14:06:28 +0000</p> <p> Over the weekend, I was reminiscing with my dad about how he set up his home office for his job back in the 80's. He and the other engineers/draftsmen at the new company all had state of the art computers for structural/piping drawing with CAD software, etc. I remember the computer was a "beast" for the time with a 20MB! hard drive and people wondering how in the hell they'd use that. The computer cost around 4500 at the time, which is expensive for a good machine even now, let alone the 80's. I remember it had this sort of cutting edge "demo" with the 3d drawing software where it would rotate a wireframe model of the space shuttle as it's sort of showoff display piece for the software. </p> <p> </p> <p> I believe I used all that power and graphics capability to play Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Sigh.... </p> </article> <article> <h1>Picking up where life left off....</h1> <p>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:11:00 +0000</p> <p> So, as I've mentioned before, I've recently come back to Atari 8 bit computing after decades away. Currently I don't actually have any of my old hardware, other than 520ST. I am in the progress of procuring some old hardware in the form of an 800XL and supporting hardware(possible disk drives/SIO solution/display/etc). </p> <p> </p> <p> One of the goals I have set for myself is to *finally* do some programming for the old 800XL. I did BASIC back in the day on my old 400/800XL, when I was a kid. Then didn't really touch computing from 90-96 or so while I was in the US Navy. After leaving the navy I went to school and became a software engineer, which I still am today. But I never have done any assembly programming. </p> <p> </p> <p> Until I have actual hardware to develop on, I plan on using one of the emulators I've used over the years(most likely Altirra) to write/test my code. I'm also considering using a windows editor/compiler for the actual development work, whether I have actual hardware or not. </p> <p> </p> <p> Does anyone have any thoughts on how they would proceed if they were me? </p> <p> </p> <p> More later... </p> </article> </main></body></html>