A few months ago, I finally published my first book, the one that I had been talking about for almost one and a half years. So why did it take that long? As anybody who has written a book will tell you, it’s a long and tedious process, and it’s not the writing part that […]
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Nach fast zwei Jahren seit den ersten Zeilen ist nun endlich mein erstes Buch mit dem Titel 10 GOTO 20 und einem Umfang von gedruckten 130 Seiten herausgekommen. Es ist ab sofort online als eBook für 5,99 € und im Buchhandel als Druckausgabe für 11,99 € zu bestellen. Die ISBN lautet xxx-xxxxxxxxxx (eBook) bzw. xxx-xxxxxxxxxx […]
Continue Reading… and it’s in German. So there’s not much sense in talking about it in English. If you do speak German, however, please feel free to read the next post with a longer description. But just so you know what’s going on: it’s a collection of anecdotes from 35 years in the world of computer […]
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I have just published the concluding article for my series about the months in gaming history that launched Vintrospektiv back in December. I announced that I would be writing this in my farewell e-mail, and in a way it marks the final entry of Vintrospektiv as I originally envisioned it. However, as I also said, […]
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After some deliberation, I have decided to discontinue Vintrospektiv. Originally, I had planned on looking back after one year, which would be the end of December, and then make up my mind about how to proceed – but I am so far from any hope to earn money at all, let alone be able to […]
Continue Reading Nach einiger Überlegung habe ich beschlossen, Vintrospektiv nicht mehr weiterzuführen. Ursprünglich hatte ich vor, nach einem Jahr, also Ende Dezember, zurückzublicken und mir zu überlegen, wie ich weitermachen sollte. Ich bin aber so weit von jeder Hoffnung entfernt, überhaupt Geld zu verdienen, geschweige denn genug, um davon leben zu können, dass nicht mehr davon auszugehen […]
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Way back in the summer of 1989, while on a vacation in Düsseldorf, I worked as a backup graphics artist at Rainbow Arts on the promotional (AdWare) game Sunny Shine on the Funny Side of Life – then called Sunny Shine: The L&M Game. It’s a long story. I created one of the locations and […]
Continue ReadingSince FeedBurner has ended its e-mail subscription service (that wasn’t very good anyway), I have switched to follow.it, which seems to offer some advanced features and is much more customisable for the subscriber. So why not go ahead and subscribe to my articles and video info bits via e-mail? You can find the button on […]
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Gubbdata is an annual demo party held since 2015 (online for the last two times). I’ve just entered one of my old songs that I wrote around 1991 into the “Other Music” (i.e., non-C64) competition. The song is called An Answering Mood and was composed on an Amiga with ProTracker 2.3 (or maybe 2.4). While […]
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While I was thinking about where to post my original Zork I maps from the late eighties or early nineties (as a reaction to this post on Reddit), I decided I might as well upload them here so that they will be preserved for interested parties. I might also link to them every now and […]
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