Failed the 1st time. Tried, it still said TK5 update 2. Do’h! My fault,… Unzip mvstk5-update3.zip in place. Replace the files if asked; I didn’t unzip in place. Second time the charm…
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Following Todds Go course
I have problems, but I think it’s largely because I drop out for long periods. His teaching style is chaotic. But I think it’s because he is constantly changing things. His course can’t keep up with him. I honestly think he is a good teacher, and if I stayed in the course I would get …
TK5 update 3
Just randomly checked, only released a few days ago. So he says, reference the “TK5-Introduction-and-User-Manual” so I go to download it and it says it already exists so I already have it downloaded… right? Wrong! The old one is 602.2KB and the new is 735.5KB. It needs a version number, IMHO.
Regina Rexx’s first error on tutorialspoint
To be clear, tutorialspoint uses Open Object Rexx not Regina! but Regina matches tutorialspoint answer, but also got an error…
My early Python book
I watched a YouTube video about programming books. He showed the 1st K&R C programming book, which I have. And a later O’Reilly Learning Python book, which I also have the 1st edition. Also I always seem to remember in my beginning, using Python 1.5 something. And the last image below is what this book …
Rexx
Installed Regina Rexx using Package Manager. Then decided I’d build it myself to get the latest version. Because why not? I found a course for Rexx. They say this is the Official Rexx website. Here I go getting into a non IBM REXX, when I should be getting back to Go. I’ll do a little, …
Atari 2600 in Emulation
Really didn’t intend to but… I have to write about this, especially since I saw the Z64K could emulate it. And it is a specialty computer. And Atari makes 462 games available with this 2MB ROM set zip. Hard to believe, 462 games in a 2MB zip file. I forgot how good some of these …
Screen and portions of screen going black
This started randomly happening. I was watching some downloaded YouTube videos when I first noticed it. At first I just assumed they were blank parts in the video, but it was happening too much. So I looked at what was going on on the other virtual desktops. I saw the java emulator Z64K in one …
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Atari 800 (1979)
I should look into emulating this computer also. I thought it was a great looking computer, at the time. I really liked the look of the Keyboard. Probably the thing that turned me off the most, and probably was a big selling point, was that it could also use cartridges. It just made it seem …
Commodore 128 (1985)
Might as well mention the Commodore 128. I’m sure I wanted one too. Especially since the Z64K emultor, mentioned previously can emulate one too. Obviously it had 128 KB of memory. Sounds like a very nice 8 bit computer. But the Commodore 64, with 64 KB of memory caught my attention first (it came out …