SpiceWare

Howdy!

I live in Fresno, Texas, part of the Houston metropolitan area. I write software for a private company in the space industry. Our software suite is used to design space craft, such as MESSENGER, which successfully completed its mission to Mercury.

I'm into classic computers and consoles and have the following systems:

• Amiga CD32
• Atari VCS Heavy Sixer
• Atari VCS Light Sixer modified with a CyberTech S-Video/Stereo
• Atari 7800
• Coleco Galaxian
• ColecoVision
• Commodore VIC-20
• Commodore 128
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Nomad (handheld Genesis)
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy

Modern systems include:

• Mac Studio M2 Ultra
• Mac mini (2018), used as a Home Theater PC. I cancelled DirecTV and use it, with some networked HDTV tuners, to drive my 4K TV. Saved over $1400 the first year. Also runs emulators, PS1 games look awesome rendered at nearly 4K 
• Nintendo 3DS XL. After Nintendo discontinued support I jailbroke it so I can run emulators on the go. Details about this in Any info on StellaDS?
• Sony Playstation 3
• Sony Playstation 5

Atari VCS/2600 projects:

• 2006 - Medieval Mayhem(try, buy), an updated version of Warlords
• 2007 - Stay Frosty (try, buy), one of the games in Stella's Stocking. Check my blog for The Story of Stay Frosty.
• 2012 - Space Rocks (try, buy), an updated version of Asteroids
• 2014 - Collect, a 2K game used to demonstrate how to write a game for the Atari 2600.
• 2014 - Stay Frosty 2 (try, buy), original code name "Chun-Li". A demo version has been made available. Check my blog for The Story of Stay Frosty 2
• 2017 - Draconian(ROM), a port of Bosconian. Sadly this is no longer available for purchase. If you wish to play this on your real Atari you'll need a Harmony Cart.
• WIP - Frantic, an updated version of Bezerk/Frenzy.
• on hold - Timmy!, a project for Think Geek that fell thru due management shakeup.
• Collect, a detailed tutorial on how to write a complete 2K game.
• Harmony/Melody Club - learn how to write advanced Atari games that use an ARM as a coprocessor.
• DASM Club - assembler used for writing games for the Atari (and other systems)
• Kaboom! Deluxe! hack of Kaboom! which adds some graphical enhancements as well as the 5200 Pitch and Catch variations where the other player controls the Mad Bomber.