Drinkable Chicken

Not a very original subject, but these links might be vaguely interesting:

• Schola: A social network for Latin speakers.

• The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk @25C3: Commodore 64 in a nutshell. (Well, a sizable nut…)

• How to create custom icons for your Mac: Useful.

• Functional programming languages (lectures): Heavy stuff.

• G3 icons for Adium: How cool is that? :-)

My esteemed coworker Justin pointed me to this device: the Asus Eee. “They even have it in your favorite color”, he claimed; which isn’t true, since it’s not yellow. :-) Not that it matters so much if you’re colorblind…

But anyway. The stupid idea is:

• install C64 emulator on it (it runs Linux, so it should be possible to run e.g. Vice)
• install oodles of C64 games on it (can be found online at various places)
• um, that’s it. You now have a portable C64. ^_^

Supposedly this can be done with the PSP as well, and it even has an analog stick that could be used to emulate a joystick, but I never managed to get it to work. :-(

(I mention this because my “Commodore Project” is stalled at the moment. Over time, I collected a C64, a Plus/4, a 1541-II, two Quickshot joysticks, 5 1/4″ floppy disks, and a XE1541 cable to transfer files from PC to C64. That last part never worked. Then my Windows box died. ¹) So I’m disgruntled and looking for a better way to play all those old games. (Other than using an emulator on OS X, an area in which the Mac isn’t a very strong player, by the way.))

Someday I should really blog about things that actually do work. :-/

¹) Hopefully the two events were unrelated.