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    YouTube new policies

    By Serguei2,

    From now, YouTube users need to tell if their videos are made for children or not.
    https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9527654?hl=en
     
    Myself, I can't tell if some of my videos are for kids. 
     
    I make them for everybody, not just for kids.
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    Ceres and Pluto

    By Serguei2,

    I can't wait to see what Ceres and Pluto look like.
     
    Ceres:
    http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/Dawn_getting_closer_views.asp
     
     
    Pluto:
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php
     
    Pluto would be a gas planet with rings since it has more two moons but I might be wrong. Just guessing.
  4. Serguei2
    Hi everybody
     
    I worked on Naturette IV today.
     
    We're talking about the teleporter devices in Naturette 4.
     

    As you see, you can travel from planets forth and back using teleporters like this one. All you need is to find codes to access different worlds.
     

    At the begin of the game, Naturette was trapped in the clock tower with her boy friend, Jasper, naked.
     
    I'll don't tell you how did Naturette get naked untill I finished the game.
     

    Naturette is in Fairyland. Naturette's location is displayed on the top of the screen. Different worlds will display different locations. I almost finished this world.
     

    I just begun this world. I'll tell you more things about this planet.
     
    By the way, Naturette should be careful here: She must not get hit by lightnings.
     
    See you later
     
     
    Robin Gravel
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    Stupid Internet

    By Serguei2,

    Hi
     

     
    Looks like I need Name user and the password to go to AtariAge this morning.
     
    That's also happened to other websites I visited.
     
    Everything is fixed now.
     
     
    Robin Gravel
  6. Serguei2
    Hi there
     
    I was thinking making a new Commodore game who will work on C64, Vic-20 or C16/+4.
     
    It's a text adventure game.
     

     
    Before starting a new game, I'll check if I can put DG: a text adventure game to work on Commodore computers.
     
    I noted that Commodore Basic 2.0 lacks some commands found on Basica or GwBasic like While, Wend, Print Using "Money : ####"
     
    After a few tries I managed to make the DG text to work on Commodore computers.
     
    DG text on C64

     
    DG text on Vic 20 (24k)

     
    DG text on Plus 4 / C16 (32k)

     
     
    The first problem is to convert the game from qbasic to basic, not just by adding numbers at the begin of the command line but also reworking some commands to make the game to run.
     
    And it's worst on Basic 2.0. Some commands on Basica are not exist on Basic 2.0
     
    DG text on Basica works but not all rooms. Complexe rooms are not coded yet.
     
    Simple rooms work fine but more complexe rooms need more work to run.
     

     
    Some codes on C64
     
    Anyway. It's a funny way to explore Basic in different computers.
     
     
    Robin Gravel
     
    Edited: the commodore DG game uses the same program. There is no vic-20 version or C64 version or Plus 4/C16 version.
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    My VCR dead

    By Serguei2,

    It played a movie about five secondes before it fails.
     

     
    Now I have to retrieve my movie.
     
    I wonder if it worth to buy a new VCR in 2013.
     
    I saw one at Walmart but still. Does a new vcr work with old tvs?
  8. Serguei2
    It was the time when you buy a game, you have a physical game and the manual.

    Back to home, you start playing the new game. The manual might help you need it.


    What do you have now?

    The games are available only on the internet. You have to download them. Create an account on the game websites. Because you can't play if you don't have an account, even if you play solo.

    The manual???????????????????????????????????????????

    No. There's no manual included with the games. You have to go to the websites where you have to navigate through the pages to know how the game works. There's no one manual file to download.

    The games have not a tutorial either. Nothing. You have to play by guessing through the options.

    Unless you go to the websites and spend time to go through the pages.




    Source: Rise Of Tomb Raid Manual?

    It's how the game industry works today.

    Minecraft is an example. You have to create an account to play and go through the pages of instructions
    or you will give up in no time.


    Minecraft the game:
    https://minecraft.net/en/

    Minecraft how to play
    http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials#Newcomers
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    Challenging Google

    By Serguei2,

    Albert, the owner of Atariage, said Google (and other search sites) could show screenshots from my club.
     

     
    Yeah! Google found a picture from "the official Robin Gravel's club".
     
    Actually, it's a banner from the main club page where everybody can see anyway.
     
    But can Google find my pictures from my topics/blogs inside my club?
     
    Only the time will tell.
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    Pac-Man 2600

    By Serguei2,

    I found this picture in 2006 on my cds today. Please check the console and the screenshot on the TV.
     

     
    Now look on the real Pac-Man 2600 screenshot below:
     

     
    :lol: :rolling:
     
     
    Robin Gravel
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    Radio AM stations

    By Serguei2,

    The last time I listened to radio AM band in my region, they were only two AM stations left.
     
    Today, all AM stations are gone.
     
     
    PS: I rarely listen to radio anyway.
  16. Serguei2
    My Vaio laptop decided to give up two days ago,
     
    I was playing on game when suddenly the screen became black and the motor stopped running.
     
    Fortunely, my Pentium Celeron supports ethernet so U can go on the internet again.
     
    But still, my Vaio has stopped working five years later I bought it in the store.
     
    This is the third electronic device who gave up after my vcr and dvd reciorder.
     
    Writing in 800x600 is fun because I used a sd tv unstead a monitor.
  17. Serguei2
    Hi
     
    I noted that my external usb hard disk takes forever to use.
     
    I waited 9 minutes untill my computer can access to my external hard disk.
     
    I bought the external hard disk in 2007.
     

     
    I checked my Hard disk on my older computer with win 98 installed. Same thing.
     
    My newest computer was bought in 2009.
     
    My hard disk does not seen to lose any datas that's a good sign.
     
    I hope I can still use it many years again.
     
     
    Robin Gravel
  19. Serguei2
    I started watching Batman featuring Adam West and Burt Ward since September in CHCH.

    The first season is great.

    The second season is great too.

    The third season is questionable:

    - Flashing cards in fight scenes is annoying.

    - Batgirl? Is she a great addition in the series? I don't know.

    - The story seems to be crushed in one episode, even if they're two/three episodes one story.


    No wonder why Batman 1966 is canceled and NBC didn't take it over for fourth season.

  21. Serguei2
    I just reached 50th sprite for my brawler game.



    14 more to go and I'll run out of sprites. OUCH!

    I never thought a brawler game would take so many sprites.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I checked the 10years, a program included with the compiler. There are three c files.

    The main program, the cake and the sound.

    I always work on one file only because it's easy for me to work with but it must have reason to split files.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    In the PROGRAMMING COLECOVISION GAMES manual, page 44, it's written,

    ''This modified version of Marcel's ColecoVision library is optimized to produce smaller games by using
    ColecoVision BIOS functions and no support for : spinner, 3rd fire button, 4th fire button and less sprites.''

    No wonder why I can't use Fire 3 and 4 in my program.

    Maybe if I can use unmodified library to use.



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    Subroutines in C

    By Serguei2,

    I learned something new in C recently:

    Theses codes are for Colecovision.


    This code is like if I type it in Basic, without numbers.



    This one uses a subroutine.

    Both codes give the same result except the last one use a subroutine.


    When I saw codes from source games for the first time, I was confusing and completely lost.

    Now, I'm fine with it and I can go further.

    My GOOMW (Get Out Of My Way) is a mess and need to clean up using subroutines instead.
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    Ho nooooooooo!

    By Serguei2,

    My DVD recorder is dead today,
     

    My DVD recorder is plugged but nothing happens. No light! No sound. Nothing!
     
    Few recorded DVDs can play on my computer.
     
     

    Yeah. My older VCR recorder still works. It can record videos but without sound. Still, it can play recorded VCR cassettes with pictures and sound.
     
    Go figure!
     
     
    Robin Gravel
  25. Serguei2
    Hi
     
    I always thought the first personal computer with keyboard was Apple 1 released in 1976, one year after Altair 8800 until I found this one.
     
     
     

    CompuColor 1


     



     
     

    CompuColor is released in 1975 and it has COLOUR graphic,


     

    Here the link:
    http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=565

     
     

    Robin Gravel


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