Author: John
Greetings and Salutations for 2005
New Year, New Chickens, as they say. It’s the last day of my holidays, and they’ve been utterly fab – so fab that I haven’t had a chance to post anything on here. I’ve been baking with the kids, playing loads of video games, watching loads of movies. It’s just been one extended fortnight of
Merry Christmas and an Apology
For anyone in our street who may have been awakened at 5:30 am by the sound of sleigh bells…… it wasn’t Santa, it was me and I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, it was freezing cold 🙂 Worked a treat though – within fifteen minutes, half the bedroom lights in the street were on and
Maps for Clever People
Well well, it’s all going swimmingly. i think I’ve finally got my head around how the rooms as stored in the original version. I’ve been poring over Chris Wild’s disassembly of the Spectrum source, but it’s obviously intended for hyper-intelligent genii, rather than thick individuals like me 🙂 Hopefully, I’ll get the map structures in
Woohoo! Hols ahoy!
Well, folks, I have precisely 35 minutes of work left then I’m on holiday until the 5th of January. I’m off on a works outing to paint ceramics (!) this afternoon, then offski. Really looking forward to this holiday. The kids are all bouncy about it as well. Harmony is off on a nursery outing
Lizards – Remaking my own game?
I’ve just come across the source code for Linux Lizards on an old ftp site 🙂 For those not in the know (i.e. everyone), Lizards was the first game I ever wrote. The timestamp on the source code says November 10th 1995 – 11 days before my first child was born. The game was charming
I’ve suspected this for a very long time….
The Onion | World’s Scientists Admit They Just Don’t Like Mice
The Approach
Nearly there – this is the best bit of Christmastime is the anticipation of two weeks when not only am I off work but the clients are off as well 🙂 This is the first time in twelve years that I won’t be on call during the Christmas period and I’m really looking forward to
Bastard Christmas
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells Jingle all the fucking way. Oh what bastard fun it is to have PIPED FUCKING CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYING EVERY BLOODY PLACE YOU BASTARDING GO. It’s christmas time. According to Woolworth’s shelf-stockers, it’s been christmas time since fucking SEPTEMBER. It was christmas before it was bloody halloween this year. “But it’s nice,”
Still Going….
….but there are other remakes on the horizon as well – Wizards Lair, to name but one. I’m currently, amongst other things, working on getting the map up and running in DD.