Alright, first post of the year. I’m going to kick off with a small Sega Genesis demo. With no end goal in mind, I decided to try making an onscreen keyboard for the Sega Genesis. It turned out alright. Maybe I’ll use it for something else eventually. This way to the article and downloads.....

   It’s time for my annual tradition of declaring this will be the last virtual Xmas card I post. I probably don’t mean it this time either but who knows. I think this is the longest one I’ve written. The pictures are the largest, that has to count for something. Warning: I complain about Final...

   In another recent article I talked about the code I use to update and publish this site. Very exciting, I know. This is adding a new feature to that publisher. It’s also about the trade offs in writing code. When should code be generic vs highly focused on a single problem The generic problem...

   The Game Boy Advance helped get me back into gaming after an extended break to finish college. Despite being very nostalgic for the system I haven’t written about it much. It’s time to change that. This article reviews some, but not quite all, compilations of retro games on the Game Boy Advance....

   I recentely did a guest appearance on the NintenDomain podcast. In the episode we talk about Falcom games and the new Nintendo music app. Download the episode here...

   This is a a brief magazine insert to help Dreamcast fans cope with the cancellation of their favorite system. It features some then upcoming games, recommended accessories, and a general FAQ. It’s an interesting look at the last days of the Dreamcast. Click here to see the scans... ...

   This is a very narrow piece I wrote on a whim. I bought a boxed copy of NHL ’ for the Sega Genesis for . all the way back in . While rearranging some game shelves I popped it open and found the original receipt tucked away in the manual. This lead me to explore what the original launch...

   Somehow I’ve never done a Halloween feature before. I don’t know if this will be an annual tradition, we’ll see how I feel in a year. This article looks at wrestlers who appeared in WCW Halloween Havoc events and charts their match position over the years. It ends with some commentary about who a...

   I have a small queue of equally small programming articles I want to crank through before moving on to something bigger. This one is a follow up to a previous article about reading AWS Cloudfront logs from a Java application. This iteration is exporting the results to an OpenDocument spreadsheet...

   This will be a quick one. I needed a very basic template system in Java. I’m aware of several rd party libraries to accomplish this but decided it would be easy to write one. It’s not elegant but it works, best of all it’s very simple. Here’s the code with minimal commentary...

   Every page on this site is a living document in that I may update at any time for any reason. Here are five small things I updated recently, and some plans for the rest of the year...

   This is a gallery of garbage. I’m not going to sugarcoat it, literal garbage. There’s a public electronics recycling center in my general area. I drop off junk a couple times a year and am usually amused at what I see piled up there. I figure others may also be amused, although others may find it...

   When I first reviewed The X Files DVD games I couldn’t get the th one to work. After some persitence I finally got it running. Click here to see if it was all worth the effort...

   I really want to try the Lord Monarch fan translation for Mega Drive Genesis. I could use any number of .ips patches to do so. What fun is that though It’s much more interesting to code a set classes to manage .ips files. Here’s some example Java code for creating .ips files, reading .ips files...

   In this article I look back on the early days of search engines and wonder how Google regressed so badly. It only took two searches to illustrate what the problem is. I offer no solutions, just venting on the current situation...

   I’m feeling pretty done with this demo. It works and I implemented some new engine features along the way. I’m happy with that. The game isn’t especially fun or interesting. This demo was always about building the engine and code generation tools though. With those goals accomplished it’s time to...

   This is a short piece about a Java pitfall I just came across. I should have run into this years ago so maybe it’s ancient news to everyone else. It concerns serializing Java Date objects, or deciding not to. This way to the full article...

   This version has been debugged. I won’t say it’s bug free but it’s close. It’s not especially fun and the colors are kind of funky. I might work on fixing the latter a little bit, or maybe settle for how it is. It’s not like I’m planning to charge for it. Here’s the link to the download... ...

   In case the demo I released yesterday is a little too difficult... Here is a brief walkthrough that explains how to reach each ending...

   My goal is to finish Retail Clerk ’ this summer, preferably in June. Here is the first alpha build. The story is complete and I verified a playthrough can be done. I also suspect it has some game breaking bugs and weirdness. Download it here if you like doing unpaid testing...