Remember the classic rainbow effect in so many Atari games and demos? I dug around for some information on how to do it, and distilled it into a mini howto on the recently launched Hackszine Blog. So break out your favorite 8-bit Atari computer or emulator, and get ready for some type-in fun!
I’m going to be running the Providence Geeks table at AS220’s Foo Fest (not to be confused with FOO), an all-day free block party in downtown Providence tomorrow (Saturday, July 15th 2006). It starts at 12am and goes late, so you have all day to check it out. I’ll probably have the table up until 5pm or so, and I’ll be giving away copies of Retro Gaming Hacks to people who can make high scores in whatever retro games I happen to have set up!
Liza Daly: “If you are a COBOL fan, you will love this language, and if you are not, the main thing you should know is that Inform 7 does not suck. It can do real work in a novel way.”
 I love the animated tile that the O’Reilly Network folks chose for Josh’s Pong/SDL hack. |
RedWolf:
“Online, I would be Red Wolf, a confident 32 year old computer
professional — the kind of guy no power-tripping teenage BBSers
would dare mess with.”