So I got the urge to work on my movie script again. It's at 12 pages so far. My goal is 70 pages since I want it to be about an hour long. Only problem is I don't know what movie studio would want to produce a movie that's only an hour long. They sure didn't have a problem with it back in the 1960s with all those horror films I see ranging from 60-75 minutes. Heck, "The Beast Of Yucca Flats" is only 54 minutes long. In order for the guys at MST3k to make fun of it, they had to put in not one, bu
Last night at around midnight, the package tracking status said "Your package delivery has been delayed." Well, can you tell me WHERE IT IS? Meanwhile, I have been working on the Pokemon Mini. I made a fish show up. But I can't draw a swimming fish, so I need help with a b&w, 2 frame, 12x12 pixel fish animation picture. This is what I have in here now: I slowed down the fish because it was moving too fast.
So, I looked at my only issue of "The Original TV Crosswords" from 9/28/99 and found that it was not made by Ebb at all, but instead a company called Popular Magazine Group. Attempts to Google both "Popular Magazine Group" and "The Original TV Crosswords -Guide" (without the -guide turned up tons of responses about TV Guide Crosswords, which is not the magazine I'm after) were fruitless. For some reason, I distinctly remember getting the magazine at K-Mart. Whether that memory is correct or not
Went to the record store. Found a copy of a Nice album in apparently terrific shape. I also found an Orb CD hoping for a long song. I got one. I have never heard of the Orb, and the "music" is very weird. I'm also back working on 2600Tris, and revived the thread in the homebrew forum, so take a look at it. My niece spent the night last night. I stayed up until at least 10:30, something I don't normally do, and watched the Blazers beat the Lakers even with the long list of injuries the Blazers ha
So I was sick of Super Giuseppe. I thought to myself "Can I do anything simpler?" Then I thought "The Odyssey 2 needs more puzzle games." Then I thought to myself "What about Smiley, that game I tried to program but was unable to make any difficult boards for?" Then I thought "Man, that's kind of similar to Chu Chu Rocket." A new game idea is born. I'll make a version of Chu Chu Rocket for the Odyssey 2. My version is called "Mouse In the House." Right now it's just a mouse going around a simp
I got the octopus in GoSub for Virtual Boy moving! You can download the VB rom for use on emulators or Flash Boy here. The octopus won't harm you, though. Obviously I'll have to address that before it's finished.
Since i was a kid, i have been fascinated with the idea of the occult. I have kind of been the buck the establishment type of person, so naturally the occult has been a facet of my life for quite some time now. So I built a little tribute to Satan on the internet for the whole world to see. My start down the "left hand path" was purchasing a copy of The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey. How disappointing to actually discover that he didn't practice Satanism in the sense that he didn't worship Satan
Someone who was in charge of making the screenshots for the Fall 1988 INTV catalog must like the number 47 a lot... - Page 3: Body Slam Super Pro Wrestling - Over the T in the words "GIANT SPLASH" is the number 47. - Page 5: Pole Position - One of the scores is 4700. - Page 5: Super Pro Football - The number of Total Yards for the red team is 47. - Page 6: Slap Shot: Super Pro Hockey - The time left in the game is 16:47. - Page 7: Tower of Doom - The amount of Life Force is 147. - Page 8: Diner
Apparently I've been in a Tetris-y mood lately. First Chetiry, now last night I got The Next Tetris for PS1. It's OK, better than Tetris Plus for the PS1, but Chetiry is pretty good too. Speaking of the 2600, I've been busy working on Explosive Diarrhea again. I got very mad at it last night so I just gave up. This morning I went back to work and fixed problems. I'd like to change it even more, but I'd need help doing so. Also, I found a very nice box for Ikari Warriors for the 2600. I guess it'
Ordered this album from eBay. There's a lot of songs that are longer than one hour out there. I ordered this last week, and just now it finally came today. They shipped it last Monday and it came today. Can't blame them if it took longer than a week to get here. Perhaps part of the problem was they used DHL instead of the USPS. Anyway, I ripped this to my computer and listened to the first 37 minutes of it. Its total run time is 63:49. It's beautiful music, especially once you get past the first
So I got back to working on my Mouse in the House game for Odyssey 2. It took me several hours to put in an additional 0 for typing in the level number. But now, when you type 07 and then Enter, it takes you to puzzle #7. I went to sleep with an idea on how to program the tens digit. I woke up about 12 hours later and with the idea forgotten, went back to work. Searching for how to multiply numbers on the Odyssey 2, I found that there is a snippet of code in the BIOS that can do it. So more wo
I was going through old tapes. Apparently I don't look at tapes that well enough, because I spotted something I had never seen before. At the end of this particular tape were 18 minutes of Viewer's Choice PPV ads and then after that, about a half-hours' worth of the Prevue Channel. Prevue Channel was nice enough to say what day and time it was when this was taped: Monday, February 13, 1995 at 11pm. I am guessing someone fell asleep and didn't wake up to press stop. Well, I'm so glad whoever it w
I've just got in the mail today an album with one 69-minute-long track on it. I'm past the 20 minute mark on listening to it, and basically what it is is just one deep bass 20-minute-long note (so far) and a few noises thrown in for good measure so as to try and mask its boringness. But I can see through its boringness and say that it is pretty boring. I'm listening to "Digital Superimposing" by Superficial Depth. And I've bought another hour-long song. This one is 74-minutes, and hopefully it w
It's too bad I discovered MST3k about six weeks before it went off the air for good on the Sci-Fi channel in 2004. So I went and bought the DVD sets. On the early episodes was a serial: Commando Cody. It was then that I discovered the serial. I don't know why people would go to the movie to see part of it. I guess it's because that most of them were around before TVs. I began watching one of the longer ones. It's called The Monster and the Ape. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037927/ So it's 15 cha
Not only is it the second half of the Odyssey 2 slogan, it's also something you need to have in order to program for it. And apparently, the mind of a computer does stupid things and disobeys you sometimes. It's a stubborn mind, and if it were a human's, it would be taking Ritalin. Anyway, for fun, I decided to try my hand at designing an 8-page manual for a game that could have been done with 4. Six page manuals can't be done unless a manual 4 page was cut in half to make 2 and then taped or gl
I made this site for the Microvision, prepping to open it on New Year's Day 2012...then forgot about it. Well, my Microvision had been in a bin along with some art supplies, and decided to take it for a spin to see if it still worked. BlockBuster was broken, Pinball was semi-playable, but Bowling worked great. In the Microvision page I made, I put a tip that will ensure a 300 game every time you play (in Bowling, not, say, Pinball.) I was on my way to 300 a few times, but kept messing up, so aft
Well, I finally did it. I put the candy cane in the game. But I decided to get rid of the Voice thing because I broke it and it was saying "ayyyyy" again instead of "Help!" My C7050 cart wasn't working. I thought it was dead. I needed to shut my computer off. When I turned it back on, I tried it again. Miraculously it began working again. So next I need to add Santa in the game. This stupidity with the game is causing me to want to take a break from working on the game.
Since people asked for it, I've put up a sample of the song I'm currently working on called "Enigma," on my first album under the band name "Eating Plants Disgusts Me." Why call it that? Because it does. I used a sample I cut of the SpongeBob episode "The Secret Box" where Patrick says "the inner mechanations of my mind are an enigma." and looped it in various ways up until the 20 minute mark. This sample you hear only goes until 3:19 because I can't post stuff on my website larger than 5MB (a h
So with the discovery of Bull of Heaven which means I cannot make the longest recorded song ever, I have decided to quit the 121-hour-long song project. Instead, I will break them into little segments. The first one is 100 minutes and one second. Why? Because I have yet to see if I have any more AAA batteries and my voice recorder has run out of power. It tells me by stopping in the middle of my recording. I am going to name my second song "Enigma." I want to put these up on YouTube, but at the
I want to make a 122-hour-long song. I figure if I sit down at the piano (or whatever instrument I choose to play that day) and play for 20 minutes every day of 2014, by December 31, I would have on my hands a 122-hour-long song. (20 * 367 / 60) 367 because I have worked on this for 2 days so far and it's not January 1 yet. I wonder how many 4 GB data DVDs it would take to hold this song. If you'd like to do the math, I have 45 minutes done and I converted it to MP3 and it's 20.5 MB. So far I ha
I want to make the longest song ever recorded. And I am half way there. The longest song I know of is Robert Rich's "Somnium", which is a little over 7 hours. When I'm finished, I will have a song called "My Pee Is Brown" which will be a little over 11 hours long. Right now I'm at the 6 hour mark. It's mostly me playing my keyboard, but even though I don't know how to play the guitar, I add that in too. I'm going to include some harmonica music in too during the next hour-long recording "session
In case you're still wondering, I'm still making that. I included in my 90-minute rock opera I made called "Fred the Typewriter." Intended to be on two CDs, I cut out the part about "now is the time to switch to disc 2 to hear the rest of the story" part. So I have 10 hours, 4 minutes and 9 seconds. I'll call it quits at 12 hours, even though these aren't really taking up the whole CD as I intended. I could take up the whole disc by putting in a song that lasts 24 hours, but I don't want to make
I was having a hard time with this. I hate it when code just flat out refuses to do what I tell it to. I want the giant flies to stay on the screen and bounce around. Originally they were supposed to be COVID-19 balls (you know, the gray things with red pokey things that stick out with triangular tips), but I couldn't draw them. So I made them flies. I should mention that I was working on Frank the Fruit Fly. I actually had to go to sleep (at noon no less, I was angrily working) with a broken ga
If you're wondering how my square one TV episode is doing (and I know you aren't.) it's fine so far. 12 minutes in. The bulk of it is my parody of Don McLean's "American Pie" song, which is 8 & 1/2 minutes long, and thus, so is my parody version. The version I made is me explaining how tragic it is to forget the value of pi. I wanted to know the value of pi so badly in the song. Not that I needed to know the circumference of a circle or anything. I've been cracking jokes about pi. In the seg
Back in the days of my youth, I remember watching Sesame Street (this was about 1984-6 or so. I don't know when exactly.) While looking for videos from Sesame Street on YouTube, I found this sketch i vaguely remember about the Natl. Assoc. of W Lovers. After watching the video recently, I said to myself, "Wouldn't it be kind of weird if there actually was a National Association of W Lovers?" So, I made one. You can find its website here. (Joining is free.) So head over and preach the Gospel of t
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