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Episode 139: Shootin' the breeze and burning our throats

Summer schedules can be a beast. And believe me, we have tried to alter that beast, but we find ourselves standing in the shadows of that beast. It's been a while, so we figured we'd better get y'all up to speed as to how our lives have been going, what we've been playing, and why we are who we are.

https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/episode-139-shootin-the-breeze-and-burning-our-throats/

Episode 139: Shootin' the breeze and burning our throats

Summer schedules can be a beast. And believe me, we have tried to alter that beast, but we find ourselves standing in the shadows of that beast. It's been a while, so we figured we'd better get y'all up to speed as to how our lives have been going, what we've been playing, and why we are who we are.

https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/episode-139-shootin-the-breeze-and-burning-our-throats/

I'll try -- I've been kind of forgetting about posting here and AtariAge, simply because my brain is mush right now! I'll try harder. 🙂

I'll try -- I've been kind of forgetting about posting here and AtariAge, simply because my brain is mush right now! I'll try harder. 🙂

Actually, it might end up being more. Most recently I did the Dragonfly cartridge, so my self-diagnosed OCD is telling me I should round out the "dragon" quadrilogy with Dragon's Cache (which is my next planned game anyway), Dragon's Descent, and Dragon's Havoc. And I will not put an end to the podcast without including Popeye. So maybe three or four episodes, then done.

Actually, it might end up being more. Most recently I did the Dragonfly cartridge, so my self-diagnosed OCD is telling me I should round out the "dragon" quadrilogy with Dragon's Cache (which is my next planned game anyway), Dragon's Descent, and Dragon's Havoc. And I will not put an end to the podcast without including Popeye. So maybe three or four episodes, then done.

Actually, it might end up being more. Most recently I did the Dragonfly cartridge, so my self-diagnosed OCD is telling me I should round out the "dragon" quadrilogy with Dragon's Cache (which is my next planned game anyway), Dragon's Descent, and Dragon's Havoc. And I will not put an end to the podcast without including Popeye. So maybe three or four episodes, then done.

I'm really saddened to hear that, that's a huge loss Sean. Thank you for what you've created so far @dauber! You've given the Atari 7800 community something great, and in the spirit of @nosweargamer which is a wonderful thing. I hope you'll pick this up again when you feel the inspiration. We're here if you are.

Hey there, friends...Sean here.

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately...I'm really thinking of doing one more, maybe two more episodes and then ending the podcast. A lot of things have factored into this:

- As it is now, I'm averaging, what? An episode a year?? When I started this podcast, I was doing it biweekly, then monthly, and then...I don't know...life?

- I really want to free myself up for other projects, at least one of which has been in the making for over ten years.

- Zero Page Homebrew really does a much better job at this stuff than I ever can, so I figure...why not let the true experts take care of it?

- I just can't keep up with the pace of the homebrew world right now. There have been a slew of new ones either out or announced since my most recent episode (November 2022!!). And some of those games have been in genres that I just cannot get into, so there's no way I'd be able to do them justice.

- On a technical side...when I started this podcast, I was still kind of new-ish to podcasting, and so I used a quick-and-easy podcasting plugin with my web hosting provider. Sadly, that plugin is extremely out of date and literally does not work with the version of PHP that I use with that service -- for my most recent episode, I literally had to downgrade my version of PHP (meaning any web sites I hosted crashed) to upload the newest episode to the feed, then go back and re-upgrade the PHP version. I could re-work this but it would almost certainly require setting up a new RSS feed and getting people to switch over to that one, which...isn't really worth the hassle.

- And just plain...lack of interest, to be quite honest. I'm still playing the games; I just haven't had the interest or attention span to do the necessary research. And when I do said research, I need to script it out in a podcastable format, find the time to record, and much more difficult: find the time to post-produce. There just aren't enough hours in a day, and most unfortunately, there is only one of me. (If I could have, like, five instances of me, I wouldn't be posting this message!)

I'll keep y'all abreast of what's going on as things happen, but at least as of now, this is where my head is at. Huge thank you to everybody who have been listening, and of course a huge thank you goes out to No Swear Gamer, who got it all started in the first place.

Hey there, friends...Sean here.

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately...I'm really thinking of doing one more, maybe two more episodes and then ending the podcast. A lot of things have factored into this:

- As it is now, I'm averaging, what? An episode a year?? When I started this podcast, I was doing it biweekly, then monthly, and then...I don't know...life?

- I really want to free myself up for other projects, at least one of which has been in the making for over ten years.

- Zero Page Homebrew really does a much better job at this stuff than I ever can, so I figure...why not let the true experts take care of it?

- I just can't keep up with the pace of the homebrew world right now. There have been a slew of new ones either out or announced since my most recent episode (November 2022!!). And some of those games have been in genres that I just cannot get into, so there's no way I'd be able to do them justice.

- On a technical side...when I started this podcast, I was still kind of new-ish to podcasting, and so I used a quick-and-easy podcasting plugin with my web hosting provider. Sadly, that plugin is extremely out of date and literally does not work with the version of PHP that I use with that service -- for my most recent episode, I literally had to downgrade my version of PHP (meaning any web sites I hosted crashed) to upload the newest episode to the feed, then go back and re-upgrade the PHP version. I could re-work this but it would almost certainly require setting up a new RSS feed and getting people to switch over to that one, which...isn't really worth the hassle.

- And just plain...lack of interest, to be quite honest. I'm still playing the games; I just haven't had the interest or attention span to do the necessary research. And when I do said research, I need to script it out in a podcastable format, find the time to record, and much more difficult: find the time to post-produce. There just aren't enough hours in a day, and most unfortunately, there is only one of me. (If I could have, like, five instances of me, I wouldn't be posting this message!)

I'll keep y'all abreast of what's going on as things happen, but at least as of now, this is where my head is at. Huge thank you to everybody who have been listening, and of course a huge thank you goes out to No Swear Gamer, who got it all started in the first place.

Hey there, friends...Sean here.

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately...I'm really thinking of doing one more, maybe two more episodes and then ending the podcast. A lot of things have factored into this:

- As it is now, I'm averaging, what? An episode a year?? When I started this podcast, I was doing it biweekly, then monthly, and then...I don't know...life?

- I really want to free myself up for other projects, at least one of which has been in the making for over ten years.

- Zero Page Homebrew really does a much better job at this stuff than I ever can, so I figure...why not let the true experts take care of it?

- I just can't keep up with the pace of the homebrew world right now. There have been a slew of new ones either out or announced since my most recent episode (November 2022!!). And some of those games have been in genres that I just cannot get into, so there's no way I'd be able to do them justice.

- On a technical side...when I started this podcast, I was still kind of new-ish to podcasting, and so I used a quick-and-easy podcasting plugin with my web hosting provider. Sadly, that plugin is extremely out of date and literally does not work with the version of PHP that I use with that service -- for my most recent episode, I literally had to downgrade my version of PHP (meaning any web sites I hosted crashed) to upload the newest episode to the feed, then go back and re-upgrade the PHP version. I could re-work this but it would almost certainly require setting up a new RSS feed and getting people to switch over to that one, which...isn't really worth the hassle.

- And just plain...lack of interest, to be quite honest. I'm still playing the games; I just haven't had the interest or attention span to do the necessary research. And when I do said research, I need to script it out in a podcastable format, find the time to record, and much more difficult: find the time to post-produce. There just aren't enough hours in a day, and most unfortunately, there is only one of me. (If I could have, like, five instances of me, I wouldn't be posting this message!)

I'll keep y'all abreast of what's going on as things happen, but at least as of now, this is where my head is at. Huge thank you to everybody who have been listening, and of course a huge thank you goes out to No Swear Gamer, who got it all started in the first place.

EPISODE 138: Front Line and SubRoc-3D

For the first time EVER, the guys from Pie Factory are back with discussion on the games you see in the title. A couple of shooty-powy games. One from the earth, one from the water. (They're trying to get shooty-powy games from the other two ancient elements, too; patience, friends, patience.) If nothing else, this is CERTAINLY the very last episode of the podcast to be released during the month of May 2023, but we make no guarantees.
https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/episode-138-front-line-and-subroc-3d/

Episode 137 is out, so listen to it NOW! Chop-chop! (See what we did there?) Silk Worm, Super Cobra, Midwest Gaming Classic, geography, and other such topics are discussed in this mammoth blockbuster installment of Pie Factory Podcast.
https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/episode-137-super-cobra-and-silk-worm/

Downloaded!  It's the next podcast I'm listening to!

Episode 137 is out, so listen to it NOW! Chop-chop! (See what we did there?) Silk Worm, Super Cobra, Midwest Gaming Classic, geography, and other such topics are discussed in this mammoth blockbuster installment of Pie Factory Podcast.
https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/episode-137-super-cobra-and-silk-worm/

Downloaded!

Happy spring, Pie Factorians! We hope you spring…fast…and, uhh…we can't make a really bad pun out of Exerion right now, but…well, just listen!
https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/episode-136-exerion-and-fast-freddie/

Found the problem:

"For use with the 7800 controllers."

NOTHING is for use with THOSE awful things!!

Found the problem:

"For use with the 7800 controllers."

NOTHING is for use with THOSE awful things!!

Found the problem:

"For use with the 7800 controllers."

NOTHING is for use with THOSE awful things!!

OMG, I had no idea he was sick. 😞  (I really need to check these Atari forums more often.)
He was a great supporter of The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast and Pie Factory Podcast for a long time.
My wife and I fly Southwest whenever we travel. I'd always try to see if he was our pilot. (He never was in the time I "virtually" knew him.) A couple of years ago he sent me an amazing picture of the Chicago skyline that he took from the cockpit.
Very active in the retro gaming community, and I know he had at least one homebrew game (for TI 99/4A, I believe) either in progress or completed.

And I second RickR on the checkups. Had my first colonoscopy a little over a year ago, and seriously, it was fine. The worst part about it was losing sleep because I had to keep going to the bathroom the night before. At least here in the States (I think it's different elsewhere) you're given a sedative that will either knock you out or make you think you were knocked out. (It was soooo nice to have that nap! The nurse told me I had a full conversation with the doctor during the procedure but I didn't remember a second of it!) They found a few tiny polyps that turned out to be harmless, so I don't have to go back again for about nine years from now. But early detection is always key to beating it.

vectrex.hackermesh.org - Mateos 16-in-1 rewritable. You get the multicast and the burner. (The burner also works with the Mateos Lynx and Vectrex multicarts). You drag and drop a ROM file via USB. Really good investment.

And I second RickR on the checkups. Had my first colonoscopy a little over a year ago, and seriously, it was fine. The worst part about it was losing sleep because I had to keep going to the bathroom the night before. At least here in the States (I think it's different elsewhere) you're given a sedative that will either knock you out or make you think you were knocked out. (It was soooo nice to have that nap! The nurse told me I had a full conversation with the doctor during the procedure but I didn't remember a second of it!) They found a few tiny polyps that turned out to be harmless, so I don't have to go back again for about nine years from now. But early detection is always key to beating it.

OMG, I had no idea he was sick. 😞  (I really need to check these Atari forums more often.)
He was a great supporter of The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast and Pie Factory Podcast for a long time.
My wife and I fly Southwest whenever we travel. I'd always try to see if he was our pilot. (He never was in the time I "virtually" knew him.) A couple of years ago he sent me an amazing picture of the Chicago skyline that he took from the cockpit.
Very active in the retro gaming community, and I know he had at least one homebrew game (for TI 99/4A, I believe) either in progress or completed.