Daily Archives: 9/7/2005

Perhaps it hasn’t occurred to Scoble…

Robert Scobe writes:

Of course, I should be thanking Steve Gillmor. He has lowered expectations of Microsoft so low that our customers have even stopped making really creative guesses of what we’re going to show next week at the PDC.

Robert, has it ever occurred to you that nobody is making really creative guesses because Microsoft hasn’t shown themselves to make creative products?

Today everyone is talking about the Rockr and the Nano. Next week, Microsoft will introduce something or other, and people will be talking about…

The Rockr and the Nano, most likely.

Brainwagon Radio: Retro Programming on the Atari 2600

Mostly this podcast concerns itself with my latest geeky project: writing programs for the old atari 2600. Why would anyone do this? Have a listen! Hear the sense of childish joy I take in wasting my time!

Screendump of my Spacewar! emulator

In the podcast I mentioned my implementation of PDP-1 simulator so I could run the original Spacewar! game (a video game which is just barely older than I am). I thought I’d provide this link to it.

Eventually, I’ll have binary images of my “game” available that you can run on Stella. If youa re impatient, you should just grab a copy of it and start writing one yourself. 🙂