Another Test
Android Rocks!
Posting from Android
Summer Cleaning
As you can see, I made some changes to the website. I was starting to get tired of my theme, so I found a new one. It’s not made by me, but I like it enough to use it anyway. It’s called PhoenixBlue. I just made some small modifications to add support for the Quoter plugin.
I also upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, upgraded some old plugins, and installed some new ones. The main new thing you will notice are social links below each post. If you like what you’ve read, you can submit the article to one of the social media websites listed. I currently have buttons for Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook, Google, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Pownce and Reddit. If you would like another website added, let me know. The plugin I use has a ton more options, but I only added the most common social media sites.
Running Zork Games on XP, Vista, Linux, & Mac OS X
Back in 2002, I wrote a guide for getting the game Zork Grand Inquisitor running on Windows XP. The game didn’t work well without the guide because it was originally designed for Windows 98. I’ve been a fan of the Zork series for almost 10 years now. After receiving a message from another Zork fan in regards to that guide I wrote, I decided that it was time to look into the games again. With a few changes, the more modern games in the series are supported under Windows XP and possibly Vista. That’s when I had an idea. With Wine, DOSBox and Frotz, it should be possible to run any Zork game on Linux and Mac OS X too. With that, it becomes feasible to run any game in the Zork series on any major operating system. That’s a big task. I began a project to work on making that idea a reality. I’m not alone though. I’m receiving some help and hosting from DAT, the maintainer of the only Zork website still active, The Zork Library.
The guides are currently at http://www.kevinbecker.net/zorkguides and will soon be hosted on http://www.thezorklibrary.com as well. The project is a work in progress and needs help on the configurations I can’t test myself, mainly Mac OS X and Vista. Help with writing the guides and testing them, as well as comments and questions would be greatly appreciated!
The Curious Case of the Wii
After 19 months, the Wii is still hard to find. I’m not aware of any stores nearby that have stock for long after getting a shipment. There is economics at work here, plus the allure of a popular, hard to get item, but there’s more to it. Nintendo is making tons of Wiis. With worldwide sales of above 27 million, they’ve sold more than twice that of the PS3 and even about 50% more than the Xbox 360, which had a year head start in sales. (Source: vgchartz.com) Something is different about the Wii and its sales.
This Week in eBay
My Hero
I can’t not post this. iamchris4life has finally done it. He FC’ed Through the Fire and Flames in Guitar Hero III on expert, the first person ever to do so. (That means he finished the hardest guitar hero song ever, perfectly, no missed notes and no extra notes) He’s been working on this for several months now. The Guiness Book of World Records needs to update it’s 2008 book now that iamchris4life destroyed his previous score. The necessary proof follows. The freaking out after finishing is priceless.
The History of Computing Flourishes in the YouTube Era
I love YouTube and Google Video. Sure there’s genius parodies of music videos, but there’s important stuff too.
Like a pivotal event in computing history, the demo of the first GUI by Doug Engelbart in 1968 …
…and a retrospective of the origins of the little operating system that could by Linus Torvalds in 2001.
Guitar Hero Robot
I’ve been meaning to do something like this… someone beat me to it. A robot that plays guitar hero.