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Admiration for Aging Emulation

Everybody welcome HutchTechAn old blog ally of TechRepublic has returned as the newest member of the Geekend--hail to the HutchTech! Look for fellow TR members to join up in the next week or so as more voices are added to the Geekend choir. Oh, and

Tags: The Trivia Geek, Vic20, HUTCHTECH, GEEKend, Amstrad, C64

Discussion threads 2006-10-27

Photos: Dinosaur sightings - old-school computer hardware

a fun pcAfter my Altair I had a C64 for about 1 1/2 yrsuntil I started building IBM compatables in 84.I took no time reaching the max capabilities of the C64. Tried to tell Comador what they neededto do to get the 64 to autorun but they had movedon -...

Tags: C64, Commodores, computer, computer hardware, Ewwwww, hardware, lack of expandability, photograph, ted_s@...

Discussion threads 2005-10-29

Additional Resources

Thrust (jnlp)

A Java version of the C64 classic. Collect the pod and escape whilst avoiding the limpet guns and keeping an eye on your fuel. Seven levels included. Freeware. JRE 1.4.2 required - link on www.javaexperiment.com.

Tags: JRE, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2005-09-07

Picodore 64 - The Commodore 64 notebook

What a wacko!I suppose it wouldn't take too much to embed the microcode of the 6510 into a FPGA and then take the video driver (can't remember what chip they used for that) and drop that in as well. But why? I've even written C64 assembly code when I was...

Tags: Xwindowsjunkie, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

Screen Mates Are Getting Hotter+Brighter

Screen mates or desktop mates, as I used to call them were once pretty lame. You used to get cat screen mates that just sat on your screen meowing and wanting to be fed. I came across these, they're real dream mates - seriously they're hot, well good for a...

Tags: Games, GoGetIt

Discussion threads 2004-11-27

Gordian Tomb (zip)

Gordian Tomb is a remake of a cool game on C64 and Amiga. It uses the original Amiga graphics and contains a remix of the original soundtrack. The goal of Gordian Tomb is to find the secret treasure room. This room is located somewhere in the tomb, where many dangers...

Tags: Amiga, Tomb, Gordian Tomb, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-01-11

Commodore Screensaver (exe)

Change your computer screen to realistic visage of the best selling personal computer in the late 20th Century. The Commodore 64 is still used today by many computer hobbyists. Commodore screensaver contains many amazing screens of differrent colors and situations. You can choose between Boot ROM screen, GEOS etc., or...

Tags: Screensaver, Computer, Commodore 64, Commodore Screensaver, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-06-04

Dinosaur sightings: The Commodore 64

For many of us in the baby-boom generation, the first computer we can remember having in our homes was the famous Commodore 64. In the early 1980s, this was a very successful home personal computer. It was the first computer I had that not only played games but also had...

Tags: Commodore 64, personal computer, dinosaur sightings, off topic, geekend, Shareware, TechRepublic Inc., PC, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Mark Kaelin

Image galleries 2008-01-28

can be Network Engineering?

Can a person go into the IT networking area if he or she has no programming background. Is programming really required for networking?Go for itI don't think that would block you from an entry networking position. Experience with scripting will be extremely helpful in the long run, but lack...

Tags: Engineering, lizaro@..., network, Network Engineering, networking, programming, system admin, wireless networking

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Admiration for Aging Emulation

Back in the day, I was the proud owner of a Commodore64. And while the sound and graphics (especially on my 19" color TV) seemed to blow away the competition, I have to admit that I always suffered from a bit of Apple II envy. Quite frankly the Apple II...

Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Games, TVs, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, HutchTech

Blog posts 2006-10-26

GAMING: Greetings, Dr. Falken. Do You Want To Play a Game?

I've been reliving some of that cold war, 1980's, Red Dawn angst by watching Jericho on CBS, and I recently screened Wargames for my teenage son (who, quite to my surprise, enjoyed it immensely).  So imagine my post-apocalyptic joy when Macworld mentioned a game (PC only for now, but available...

Tags: Game, Games, Personal Technology, HutchTech

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Shutdown Day

Computers computers, most of those in the IT industry especially techies will admit that it’s very rare for a day to go by without them using a computer. Could you go a day without one? Now’s your chance to find out and participate in ‘Shutdown Day’. The...

Tags: computer, News

Blog posts 2007-03-03

Photos: Dinosaur sightings - old-school computer hardware

How I wanted one of these SinclairsMan I remember back in the day wishing I could afford one of these little Sinclairs. But that was before I heard how difficult typing on the touch-keypad was.Amazing how much more powerful a computer you can get these days for the money.I've...

Tags: computer, computer hardware, dinosaur, hardware, photograph, RexWorld, sinclair, Sinclair Z80

Discussion threads 2005-08-24

Chicklet style keyboard (Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer)

Cut my computing teeth on the very same model...When I first started using PC's, the Commodore PET 2000 series was what I used. We had three of them in our computers class at high school. It was a part of the process leading me into a 27 year...

Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, dwain.erhart@..., Commodore Pet, Commodore, Commodore Pet 2001, memory, keyboard, computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Free VMware Player

installing may be easier, but maintenance..??Hi there.I am a Windows-idiot, i have to admitt. I have been using Windows since the 95 version, and had them all - 98, ME, 2000, Xp and now Vista. In that time i had various Linuxe's too - SuSE 6.4, RedHat, SuSE 10.0 and...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Monitors & displays, boythanh@..., Microsoft Windows, command line, Ubuntu, Linux, SuSE, SUSE 10.0

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

"You are likely to be eaten by a grue" - The rap video

What is a Grue?No one has ever seen one. It lives in the darkest depths, its appetite for cave adventurers tempered only by it's fear of light. If you were dumb enuf to wander into the caves without lighting your lamp (or even remebering to pick up...

Tags: Games, Dr Dij, video, Grue, grue, Zork

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Intel: Software needs to heed Moore's Law

This all sounds like an excuse for the real enemy: Code BloatInstead of putting effort into making software more efficient (specifically, less clock cycles to accomplish the same task) we'll just load up the processors with more "cores". Of course, this doesn't address the increased load on other components...

Tags: Processors, Microsoft Word, Word processors, billspc, HyperThreading, processor, software, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

Ok, enough arguing - I am going to take over the world!!!

Ok, enough arguing - I am going to take over the world!!!Ok, I am tired of all this political jibber-jabber & have come up with a solution... I will assume world leadership & abolish all political parties.Seriously, think about it, here's my manifesto: -1. All tech support...

Tags: D, Ok, leadership, politics, religion, world, me!, Ciderick, off-topic, Free Beer

Discussion threads 2006-04-17

Typing

Typingthis might be a little unusual and petty but it's always irritated me when someone uses a computer all day long, every day, and cannot type (without looking, at a decent speed). Besides not being productive, even if the person isn't data entry, i think it's important and should be...

Tags: computer, dalin@..., job, off-topic, words per minute, WPM

Discussion threads 2005-04-22

Geek Trivia: Game over and under

Geek Trivia: Game over and underarticle rootTo "decimate""Warner had managed to decimate... the first great home video game console empire..."The root of the word "decimate" is obviously the Latin word for "ten." To "decimate" a fortune is to take away one tenth of it. Misuse of the word to simply...

Tags: Atari, Atari Inc., DC_GUY, game, Geek Trivia

Discussion threads 2005-01-05