Software development. Tech punditry. Retro gaming.
Ed Riley, known as winkdot on the AtariAge forums, was a home-brew developer for the Atari 2600. Over the years he produced a wide range of fun games that he released for free to the Atari community.
Sadly, Ed Riley passed away in 2019. A great loss to the Atari community and the world.
Forum member Brian Matherne (Arenafoot) put together a wonderful Dedication archive of Ed’s games, including a memorial file, and linked to the zip file in a number of places on the AtariAge forums.…
At some point in high school students are taught about factorials. A fairly simple concept, the factorial of a non-negative whole number is written as n! and defined as the product (that means you multiply the numbers) of all the positive whole numbers less than or equal to that number. So 5! = 5 ⨉ 4 ⨉ 3 ⨉ 2 ⨉ 1 = 120.…
Back in the late ’70s and early ’80s most households did not have a computer. Computers were very expensive by today’s standards. There was, of course, no internet. Software you’d associate with office work today didn’t exist – Word, Excel and Photoshop had yet to be created.
At the time the three most popular personal computers were the Apple II, the Commodore PET and the Tandy TRS-80.…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regulates advertising on social media, including Facebook – their guidelines require businesses to make true and accurate claims, and to be able to prove them. Facebook claim to have advertising standards and to follow them. In fact, here is what they say on Fraud, Scams and Deceptive Practices:
If you regularly use Facebook you will know it is full of scam and fraudulent advertising.…
Chocolate means a lot to me. I always have chocolate in the cupboard, I make chocolate cakes, I eat chocolate ice cream, I drink chocolate, I have been paid in chocolate for some projects. Chocolate is life. So it may not surprise you to learn I sometimes have ideas about chocolate.
I talked about one of these ideas in a previous post, and here is another.…
Those who know me know that I am a big fan of chocolate. There is always chocolate in the cupboard at home, I drink hot chocolates at cafes, my friends give me chocolates as gifts, and I’ve even been paid in chocolate for certain projects in the past. I think about chocolate a lot.
So perhaps it isn’t a huge surprise that I might have some ideas for new chocolate products, even if I’m known more for my love of computers and mathematics.…