Comments on: I was a pre-teen Transactor author wannabe (and still am!)

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0xDECAFBAD » Greatest Hits Vol. 2, the Babble Bits — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:29:11 +0000

[...] May 25: I was a pre-teen Transactor author wannabe (and still am!) A declaration of what my perfect blog might look [...]

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This sounds like a great idea, can't wait to see what you come up with.

By: Roger Benningfield

Roger Benningfield — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

God, how I loved Ahoy! I stumbled across a cache of my old, mid-'80s magazines in my mom's garage last year... I need to go through them and see if any issues of Ahoy are in there.

By: Chad Fowler

Chad Fowler — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I'd personally love to see you do some more stuff with AgentFrank.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I'm interested to see what you write. Take this as a vote of encouragement.
Looking forward to that first article.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. What a blast from the past! Compute! Gazette... Ahoy... It's been a loooong time since I thought about them. I bet my dad still has a crate of them in his basement. Might have to crack open my old C64 and see if I can remember much...

By: neozen

neozen — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

yeah, that's the spirit.
we'll be waiting.

By: Chris Snyder

Chris Snyder — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Re: projects, go go go!

Re: link to Ikea's Jerker desk -- are you sure you don't want a Fartfull instead? http://tinyurl.com/ttco

Imagine an office full of those...

By: Jerry Kindall

Jerry Kindall — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Nibble magazine was like that for the Apple II -- lots of type-in program listings and technical articles on things like accelerating the GOTO statement in BASIC and organizing your disks. Nibble wasn't the only magazine of that type either, just the biggest. Call-APPLE (the newsletter of the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange, a big Seattle user group) ran a legendary article once on how to make the disk operating system load files about 5 times faster.

A friend of mine and I submitted several programs to Nibble, but neither of us ever had one accepted. I did later publish some articles in a small assembly language newsletter and wound up editing a couple for the same publisher. This was the start of my writing career. I later slung code and words for a couple of Apple ii and Mac software developers and then switched over to doing just the words, which I've been doing ever since.

Ahh, good times, good times.

I have a bunch of things (scripts, mostly) kind of half-finished and partially released; maybe i should get serious about cleaning them up and publishing them in some way.

By: Ken Stailey

Ken Stailey — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

So lucky you could convince your family to buy computers. I had to use my own savings to buy my Atari 400 -- couldn't afford an 800.

I did upgrade it peicemeal over '81 - '84 with third party add-on's like a decent keyboard that fit in the place of the orignal McMembrane keyboard and a whopping 48KB of memory.

Who needed a 2nd cartridge slot anyway