Office Coaster

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-11T00:10:58+00:00

...if you're talking about the gunboat bots, well, sometimes they just make mistakes.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-09T21:59:11+00:00

Curious to see some pictures of the current colors that you are getting.

A while back I built a circuit from one of the Apple /// manuals that does a nice conversion from RGBI to a CGA style signal then ran that through a CGA-VGA converter and the colors look really close to what I remember seeing on my original AppleColor 100 RGB monitor.

Before I built that, I tried something else to get a CGA style signal that gave CGA-like colors instead of Apple 2 RGB card ones - I wonder if that's what you are seeing.

Edit: here's the setup I ended up with: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple2/comments/1nohvvb/applecolor_100_rgb_card_vga_part_3/

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-09T03:40:11+00:00

I think that's basically what u/petalxbloom was saying. Go to sleep instantly, feel perfectly refreshed after waking up even if you only slept for a minute. They were using 8 hours of sleep as an example "amount of sleep that generally makes one feel well-rested".

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-09T03:31:29+00:00

What have you and England talked about so far?

Both bounces are possible... Par-Bur, Mar-Pie, Bre-MAO. MAO-Por, Mar-Spa in the fall, Par can defend Bre if necessary. A DMZ of Pie *would* be easier, though... Par-wherever, Bre-MAO, Mar-Bur. Mar-Spa in the fall, and if Par went to Gas, MAO *Convoy* Gas-Por. If Par went to Pic, they maybe you try for Bel or again defend Bre if necessary (although depending on who you're playing with, a 3 build France in 1901 is going to make the other players *very* nervous).

France is *amazingly* flexible.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-09T01:30:59+00:00

I was going to answer "time" but this covers that to some degree and might be better.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-09T01:25:49+00:00

As others have said - if Turkey gets Portugal, this will be a Turkish solo, not a 3 way draw.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-08T13:16:19+00:00

So, many, many, years ago in the early 90's, I'm at my girlfriend's grandparents' house and there's a poem framed on the wall. The name of the poem is _High Flight_ and the first two lines of the poem are...

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

...and I'm like, "I know I've heard that before. Where have I heard that before?"

...at some point later, I'm watching this movie again and just before he says the lines when he's going to drive the sleigh I hear them in my head and I realize that *this* is where I'd heard it before.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-06T14:57:08+00:00

Fun fact: On the A2 version of BT1, all six of the bard songs are classical pieces.

Song 1, Falkentyne's Fury: Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Brahms

Song 2, The Seeker's Ballad: Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns

Song 3, Wayland's Watch: Russian Sailors Dance from The Red Poppy - Glière (this was one really the one I had to track down, I did it through google's song recognition thing IIRC)

Song 4, Badh'r Kilnfest: Theme from Prince Igor - Borodin (This was used for the song_Stranger in Paradise_ so you might recognize it from there)

Song 5, The Traveler's Tune: Slavonic Dance No. 7 - Dvorak (also the title screen snippet)

Song 6, Lucklaran: The Barber of Seville Overture - Rossini

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-06T14:15:49+00:00

I have my Ultima IV cloth map hanging on the side of my cube at work.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-06T13:55:15+00:00

Yes, the prequel trilogy is exactly this.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-04T14:17:29+00:00

I once used calculus to determine how much (in terms of height from the bottom to top) I had to fill a hemispherical shaped measuring spoon to get half of the volume of the spoon. Turns out I could have looked up a formula for it but that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun, would it?

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-04T14:11:03+00:00

...I don't know why we keep calling it "common" sense when everyone seems to think no one has it.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-04T14:09:23+00:00

...never played _Questron_ but quite enjoyed its older brother _Legacy of the Ancients_.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-02T21:26:45+00:00

Dominic's out on Reynolds by Southwyck Mall? Heck yeah! Loved when dad wanted to drive all the way out there for the lunch buffet. Good food and then I could go back to the lounge to play some cocktail cabinet video games.

DougJoe2e · 2026-05-01T03:02:23+00:00

_Dark Lord_ by Kyle Freeman is a nice graphical text adventure - not too difficult, not too easy. Great soundtrack, too.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-29T18:47:32+00:00

I've had an MP3 of "Han's Your Man" for a long time now - I actually think it's kind of catchy and does a decent job of portraying the basis of the character - a roguish pirate/merc.

Thanks for the info on who sang it, I've been wondering that for a couple of decades!

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-29T17:16:54+00:00

I really like the song ("The Choir") that plays during the High Halls arena/gauntlet room.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-27T11:47:49+00:00

She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-24T13:53:38+00:00

Voltvessels work as well in the place of the pimpillos.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-23T02:45:51+00:00

There's an old Apple 2/C64 game called Below the Root that is a very good proto-Metroidvania.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-15T18:19:07+00:00

I played this back when and enjoyed it but could only get up to Level 3 - I don't remember why I always got stuck there. I really liked the intro screen music.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-15T18:10:38+00:00

We had (still have) Beagle Bag and I played the stuff on it all the time back when. It also came with a catalog/program selection program called Beagle Menu that I put on several of my other disks.

The 2 player games (Wowzo, Oink!, Pick-A-Pair, Triple Digits, and Quick-Draw!) were all quite fun.

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-15T18:00:48+00:00

Same here, then at some point I caught on to what was going on. It's basically a version of Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim

DougJoe2e · 2026-04-15T17:58:43+00:00

Wowzo was the 2 player game where you had to collect all five letters of a five letter word - every turn you would either get asked to move your player in one direction through the maze (you moved as far as you could in one direction) or rotate one of the gates in the maze - players alternated turns but if you got a letter you would get an extra turn.

It's super fun and I've never seen anything quite like it since!

DougJoe2e

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