I wish I had one of these, how cool would it be to have your coffee made by a Commodore 64?
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Category: Computers
Classic Video Pong Kit
Super! Just the way to spend a project evening.
Blocky table tennis with a ball and two paddles was one of the first real video games to make it into mainstream culture. It took an awful lot of high-tech electronics in 1972 to create this classic game. Now however you can cobble together your very own Classic Video Table Tennis Game with a little determination and some basic soldering skillz. This kit contains a pre-printed circuit board and 39 various resistors, diodes, and capacitors. Solder everything together (following the instructions we hope) and plug the audio and video into any standard TV for instant Table Tennis action. You can play against another lowly human or challenge the computer at four different skill levels.
I wonder if the kit can be hacked to make variations on the game… Hockey or even handball???
Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP
Modifying a working blog is always a pain in the arse, one mistake to a style sheet and everything is screwed up. Plus figuring out themes and plug ins can be a royal mess. What you need is a staging area so you can test things out. I usually use my old Mac G3 running PHP and MySQL to see how things work. If you don’t have a second computer you can follow these instructions and go to town with the mods and never have to worry about screwing up the production site.
[via reltechnews]
[Geeks are Sexy] technology news: Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP
MacMINI in an SE/30
How can you case mod an Apple Mac mini? Car mount, Millennium Falcon, kitchen-ized, G5-ized,even turned into a toilet paper dispenser (!). This mini mod brings back on of the classics of Apple history. The SE/30 was quite the computer for it’s time. With it’s 16 MHz 68030, 9 inch screen, and a max of 128MB or RAM it was able to be a server as well as a desktop machine. Remember when those were specs you would drool about? Yeah, those were the bad old days… Well, this SE/30 is back on the A list with the transplant of a shiny new Mac Mini. The mini was wired into the case along with a new grey scale monitor to make a truly cool computer.
A little Site Maintenance
I’ve been making quite a few changes to the ‘ol site lately. If your a new reader you might not notice, if not let me know what you think. Mmm-kay? I had to re-do the RSS feeds that are going through Feedburner because my .htaccess file had become snorked up. I fixed it so if your feeds haven’t been coming through you will know why. Every thing is normal here now. OK, should be normal. If not let me know.
I ended up opting for a plugin solution to my RSS redirection as hand editing the .htaccess file is becoming a right pain in the arse. I went with the plugin offered by Steve Smith. A very cool and slick interface for setting all of it up. Just on note, if you choose to use the plugin yourself, you might have to do edit a couple of things. If your WordPress isn’t in the root you will have to change the feed that you give Feedburner. Remove the ‘/wordpres/’ bit. You will know it when you see it. Also, in the .php file for the plugin you should change ‘get_settings(’home’)’ to ‘get_settings(’siteurl’)’. You do that (and provided your .htaccess file is set to 666) and your in like Flint.
Open Source Flash – fc64
Now that Macromedia Adobe has released a new version of Flash (9 beta 3), you can do some pretty amazing things. What has to be the best could be this Commodore 64 emulator. I say could be because the live demo site is down and I it looks like some of the downloads are missing. It should be fun to play with, I hope you will be able to save programs that you write on it one day. I’m also hoping that this version of Flash will be a better team player with Firefox than the last version was.
[via Darron Schall and Waxy]