Drinkable Chicken

This seems like an interesting roguelike: POWDER. Originally written to run on a Gameboy Advance, there are also versions for Nintendo DS, Windows, Linux and OS X. I love the retro look… ^_^

This Fuzebox thing seems to be pretty cool… I would get one, except I’m no good with a soldering iron (or with hardware in general… I consider replacing a PC’s memory a monumental task :-).

It reminds me a bit of Pandora… which is another interesting-looking device for retrogaming, and supports Amiga emulation, among other things.

Alternatively, one could get an Asus EEE and install some emulators on it. That may be my best bet if I want a portable C64.

Anyway, there sure is a lot of cool stuff coming out these days…

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.