robertcadena

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It's a new year! Recovering programmer currently at Turntide.com. Longer stuff at www.robertxcadena.com Have RSS, will follow. #c64 #bbs #baking #pixelart #ifcomp #retrocomputing

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robertcadena, to illustration

Another sketch on the easel - this time a mage based on one of the mages in Curse of the Azure Bonds

robertcadena,

Poked him in the eye ;)

robertcadena,

Finished my portrait sketch of a scholar mage character. My stock art can be found over on driverhrurpg.com

A surprised looking mage scholar digital illustration in pencil style

robertcadena,

Here’s a time lapse of the illustration. Done using

Time lapse of a digital illustration of a dnd type character

robertcadena, to woodworking

Built a little floating shelf for my Bluetooth speaker I use in the kitchen. Just some scrap wood and some random cuts with a chisel.

robertcadena, to Bread

Harvest bread - about 10% whole wheat

robertcadena, to baking

Another day of baking - this time with a Poolish (a pre-mixed portion done the day before) and a same-day whole wheat 🤞#:blobwizard:

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Poolish white with a brain-like “fendue” (in the blue pot) and an oval shape of the same - another 20 mins opened to brown

An oval shaped load halfway there in the oven

robertcadena,

I’m not confident the whole wheat will come out right, looks like I didn’t do enough water for the bulk rise - we’ll see

robertcadena,

First Poolish white bread out - must cool for a while. I can hear the crackling crust as it cools down 😋

robertcadena,

Second loaf of the Poolish white bread. This one with an oblong shape and a nice big ear in the center

robertcadena, to art

I finally got a tablet with a screen on it ! It’s a totally different feel!!! I love it! I finally sprung for one after 10+ years with my old Wacom INTUOS tiny tablet because I saw a highly positive review of the XPPen 16 pro (gen2) by @davidrevoy

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1004/xppen-artist-pro-16-gen-2-review-on-gnulinux

Closeup of a digital drawing

robertcadena,

@davidrevoy ouch! Well, the wait will suck but it will be worth it.

Thanks for the reviews and in depth videos, btw. Really helpful.

paulrickards, (edited ) to bbs
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So I think got my online as well! It's currently running SubText on MacWorks/ System 6.0.8 with 2MB of memory over a PPP connection!

Ok so it worked for about 30 minutes, the BBS was packed, all nodes busy! There was a multi user chat!

Then it just stopped responding. Oh well! I'll try again soon. =)

robertcadena,

@paulrickards awesome. Managed to get on and register and when I was going to reply to @aburka 's thread it stopped responding and eventually dropped carrier

robertcadena, to c64

it's late, but I got cc65, a c compiler that can compile for the c64 working. Pretty easy actually.

Here is a quick program written in c with some extern text, compiled and loaded in vice ... until I finish building the pi1541 so I can transfer to my actual machine.

robertcadena, to retrocomputing

Performing some work on this c64. Broken stem on the number 4 key.

robertcadena, to retrocomputing

Folks! My friend was at a “junk” shop and found an old computer he thought I might like (a Vic 20? Uh yeah) so he bought it and sent it to me. It works straight away. But the amazing thing? See next post in this thread

robertcadena,

Took a break for a walk with the fam but now back at this stuff with Math Test! This one has credits!

Patrick Dole
Suggestions: Luis Sandoval
ILL(???!!) comments given by: Stan Cook. Ill? Like Ill cool or ill sick but sick bad not sick good? Quick video walk thru in next post

robertcadena,

Math Test for the vic20. I would have enjoyed this as a kid. Fun little feedback noise when you get it right. I forgot to list the code so will do that after I run the next game I found on this tape.

Playing math test on the vic20

robertcadena,

Next on the same tape is Math Girl. I thought it was like hangman but with math but it’s not, and you get shot at from a stick sticking out of a set of steps and you lose lives. I guess I would have enjoyed it as a kid but probably would have tried to shorten the shot sound effect because it takes so long after you get it wrong to just play that giant crssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - ok gameplay

Play thru of the game math girl which features no girls at all

robertcadena,

First Math on the vic20, an early precursor to the often mind numbing dreambox our kids have to do today but with better instructions!

(sort of)

robertcadena,

Space Math on the vic20
is next! Will my player get shot out the air lock if I get my math wrong? Will aliens zap me with lasers if I divide incorrectly?

This one has credits! Duane Later and Neil Harris for Commodore

robertcadena,

Short playthru(?) of the vic20 game Space Math - I would have liked this as a kid and my parents may have yelled TURN THAT DOWN! But I’m doing math! OK FINE!

Gameplay: pretty ok

video/mp4

robertcadena,

That’s it for today on this computer archaeology expedition. One of the tapes had a loose felt thing that goes behind the tape so I’m fixing that up and hope to try it tomorrow.

robertcadena,

After a day waiting for the glue to dry on the felt backing of the Vic 20 game tape labeled Paratrooper it is now loading via the tape. Let’s see what it has.

robertcadena,

Success! Credits load and then before the game starts it has this message saying that as the game loads the characters will change. I guess it’s updating something in the display that changes the characters for the game.

One of the more fun games in this set of tapes. I must have played this game back in the day, would have been on the c64 though because I never had access to a vic20.

A short video with fun audio next.

Loading screen for paratrooper
Corrupted characters (normal) as the game loads

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