In younger days, I enjoyed regularly poring over the tales found in the amusing, innocent Archie Comics, and delighting in the various antics of the Riverdale gang. Out of nostalgia, I looked this series up on the Internet recently, and from what I saw, the series is still going quite strong, with a still-dizzying array of spin-off and crossover editions, as shown by most grocery store [...]
I’ve waxed nostalgic about the Commodore 64 computer system before (such as here, here, and here), for which 25 years have passed since its original 1982 release. It was a year after that when our family obtained one for Christmas.
I just received a link from a friend which brought me to a YouTube video. It is an [...]
In my youngest days, I had an old Atari 2600 gaming console around, through which such legendary benchmarks as Space Invaders, Pitfall, and River Raid were enjoyed. Back then (even with pixels large enough to fit breakaway Soviet Republics) one personally felt certain that games had reached an apex of quality, and it would be hard to imagine [...]
Surprisingly, there appears to still be evidence of continued interest in a home computer that experienced its height of popularity years ago. Many would yet consign the Commodore 64 to the dustheap of technological history, but according to this article, it will be making a return. In its most recent incarnation, it will arrive as a powerful personal computer designed specifically for high-end [...]
Last Saturday, I attended the World of Commodore Expo in Toronto, which I discussed in a previous post. It was quite the experience. You can read about one Toronto Star reporter’s take on the event here (note prevelance of words such as “history”, “archaic”, and ”Model T”). The stereotype is unavoidable.
Actually, I had not realized that there was so much [...]
I am aware that Hallowe’en is more than two weeks in the past, but that simple fact does not preclude us from the possibility of being frightened later on in the year, particularly now, as the readjustment from daylight savings time and the late-autumn sunsets beckon darkness upon us much earlier in the day. I recently listened again to a sinister [...]
My last post included the seemingly bizarre statement that PC’s were actually inferior to Commodore 64 computers as recently as the early 1990’s. Very true. If you wanted to avoid irritating PC-speaker beeps, and graphics represented upon highly visible pixels by an embarassingly colour-poor palette, you were best to go with a C64 until screen picture and sound each started to make dramatic leaps in [...]
In less than a month, a far-ranging exposition will be held down in Toronto to showcase and celebrate one of the finest computers which has ever been produced: the Commodore 64. Originally released in August 1982, its versatility, stability, and ease-of-use eventually made it the best-selling computer model to date, with in excess of 17 million units sold, up until [...]
Highly sugary breakfast cereals are a staple of most North American childrens’ upbringings. This has not changed for a while, as grocery-store aisles continue to display more corn-syrup-based breakfast food than ever, as was begun in 1928 when the Kellogg brothers first introduced Rice Krispies to the burgeoning section of the cereal market which specifically dealt with marketing directly to young kids. [...]
I’ll be coming back shortly with more Ishpatina Ridge details, but all this talk of foresty adventures, as well as another hike out today (in what had been incorrectly thought to be an area unobstructed by hundreds of large fallen trees), reminds me of another cartoon frequently watched in the 1980’s which I should have had in my list back over a month [...]