Playpower

went to makezine.com as usual and found this cool post about the playpower, an open source"$10" computer based on the 6502 and famicon...basically a new famibasic computer (which was never released in the us). pretty interesting and something i could actually afford right now. on the playpower site theres tons of links to tutorials on programming (basic, c, asml), making chiptunes, and interactive design, as well as a blog and wiki. it can also be purchased in the maker shed at makezine.com ...however it costs about 50 bux there. it would have been ever more awesome had it actually costed $10 for us but part of the markup goes back into supporting playpower which then supports those in developing countries. also the list of schools that help work on this project is pretty interesting M.I.T is one in the us and others in India and China i believe. The "Nintendo AVS" link is a link to early drawings and info on what the NES was originally going to be released as ...a computer that hooked up to your tv and also played games and music. links below






Playpower , playpower brief , Nintendo avs , family basic , makezine article , maker shed

enought recurrsion to make rms proud!!!!

so..i just got back in from the library as usual. But this time i wasn't taking out books. a few weeks ago the librarians asked me to come in and do something about gaming/design etc, as part of "teen tech week". so i worked with about 12 or so kids/young adults/young people , and taught them a bit about game maker, a program to help people publish games or hmm make software it doesn't have to be a game at all. It turned out good , i had to stop them from calling me "mr" cause it just felt weird. for my first time "teaching" things went good too i taught them some stuff they taught me some stuff. and the librarian with whom i worked with talked with me about making this a regular thing so when we work it out we will have a small game dev group. funny cause lol i did not go in with the intensions of anything this size happenening ...very surprising in a good way. there were photos take and i guess when i get them i'll put them up.

and for the second thing. for one day i actually broke out of night mode and was up like a regular person at 7/8 am. so i'v gotten mac fever lately..and i recalled seeing a site about making a "mac on a stick". which is a emulator that runs off a usb thumbdrive that emulates early mac os........ahhh high school memories of using mac se's. i tried it out and it's pretty cool, so now i have a mac emulating a mac that emulates a mac(6502) and a pdp 8. links below if anyone wants to try it out.



mac on a stick , mac se , mac on a stick(better for windows) , gamemaker , welcome to macintosh

welcome to macintosh(documentary) , apple fritter , pirates of silicon valley