MaximumRD

COFFEE TIME ! ....🎼🎶😎HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND...................😆

😎 Had a nice conversation w/ BTB & Atari Creep yesterday. Starting interesting new projects. The coming year is going to be fun.

📖 Who loves comic books? Collecting is about enjoying every part of the game - the gameplay, the artwork, flipping through the instruction manual and diving into the story and the world of the game. Atari was my introduction to comics, some of my favorite Atari games come with DC Comics ashcans inside.

Congratulations to GregDeg who not only set a new WR for Atari 2600 Venture, but netted $125 to boot! GregDeg set the new record with a score of 40,000. The bounty itself was announced this past Friday night, April 17.

I've been doing 6502 programming on the Atari 8-bit computers since Mac/65 on the 80s. Today its Eclipse/WUDSN/Mads and emulators on linux.
In the later 80s and 90s I was doing computer animation, desktop publishing, and video production on Amigas. Some programming, too, but by then I was working full time, so recreational programming was cut down quite a bit.

I have a full time job managing a group of programmers working on financial processing systems written in C and running on linux. Chances are if you've used a gift card I've made it a happy experience for you. (If it wasn't I can refer you to some competitors )

When I have time I work on random graphics project and games, or port things from other platforms to the Atari 8-bit computers. Various tutorials from Oldskoolcoder and GRay Defender have been my past porting victims.

https://github.com/kenjennings

https://www.youtube.com/user/SyntheToonz

(No, I've never been on Jeopardy!)

🤯 How did WB own Atari, DC comics & Looney Tunes, & not see that games can be cartoons & characters

For those of you having a hard time like me during these dark times...PLEASE watch this.  Fast forward to 10:45 at a bare minimum.  Trust me. 
 
 

Couple images gave me a chuckle 😆

Ms. Pac-Man episode on 7800 Ave. 
 

New Episode- Ikari Warriors 7800 
 

Not something I thought I'd ever say but WOO HOO! Found a place selling family packs of toilet paper today! We are good for sometime now. 😌😅

🙁Bleh, well we wont be going on two tours / trips that were planned this year. May was "Four themed Towns" and December was THANKSGIVING ON THE OREGON COAST, both with Wells Gray Tours. Regardless of what happens at this point even IF the Dec trip would have been a possibility it is more sensible for us to just call 2020 a NO TRAVEL year. We are not young and healthy, we have diabetes (compromised immunity) as well as mild Asthma so taking the chance on any travel in 2020 is a gamble we are not willing to take.
We work hard to try and maintain the health we have so a week of fun is not worth the risk. The time frame for a vaccine to be created, tested and the rest of the outbreak to be contained / controlled means 2020 is a write off travel wise. Ah well, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program. 

RIP Kenny.  Thank you for the music.

Wishing our very best to the physicians and medical professionals working day and night on the front lines of this⚕️

Happy Birthday to ATARI CREEP ! Hey bud, All the best to ya ! 😎🎂🥳🍻🎁🎈🕹
 

RIP Sy Sperling! A man who just wanted you to look your best! 
 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sy-sperling-founder-hair-club-men-dies-78-n1139926

 
Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for Men, who coined the once-ubiquitous tagline "I'm not only the Hair Club president but I'm also a client,” died Wednesday, his family said. He was 78.
Sperling passed away "after a lengthy illness," in Boca Raton, Florida, according to a statement from his family. After retiring in 2000, the New York businessman spent winters in Boca Raton and summers in Vancouver.
 

Happy Holidays everyone! Posted new updates for High Score Squad, and an update on the security issue!

Just so you guys don't think I'm dead (because of no posts lately) -- although I'm sure @MaximumRD would respectfully report on it if I was, there's a new project I've been working on.  Restoration of a 2003 Subaru.  It's got a water leak (which makes it smell bad), and needs some engine work.  But I'm having FUN with it.  My father was an auto mechanic.  It feels good to get the hands dirty.
AND...I got a NEW JOB!  I start next week.  Should be lower stress.  I hope. 

😢RIP ODO aka René Auberjonois https://www.pix11.com/news/national-news/benson-star-trek-actor-rene-auberjonois-has-died-at-79

😢RIP ODO aka René Auberjonois https://www.pix11.com/news/national-news/benson-star-trek-actor-rene-auberjonois-has-died-at-79

Oh poor Charlie 😛 RIP https://deadline.com/2019/12/robert-walker-jr-dies-star-trek-actor-and-son-of-hollywood-stars-was-79-1202802504/

😮😢RIP Iconic Star Trek Writer Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana Passes Away at 80
http://www.treknews.net/2019/12/03/star-trek-writer-dorothy-dc-fontana-dead/

Sad it is.

[R.I.P.] Oscar Winning ‘Terminator,’ ‘Critters’ and ‘Klowns’ Effects Artist Gene Warren Jr. Has Passed Away
https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3596095/r-p-oscar-winning-terminator-critters-klowns-effects-artist-gene-warren-jr-passed-away/?fbclid=IwAR0QAs026SKsEtVEkZM1VpG21jGpqSVtjIb3NrmnaGRzWxUNC5CkuVDZApA

Good long life! RIP ! Virginia Leith, Female Lead in Stanley Kubrick’s First Film, Dies at 94
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/virginia-leith-dead-dies-stanley-kubrick-fear-and-desire-actress-1203403178/
One of her best-known roles in recent years was in Joseph Green’s 1962 low-budget science fiction cult classic “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,” in which she played the disembodied head of the main character’s fiancee, which he keeps alive after discovering how to keep human body parts from dying.