Archive for 'Smalltalk'
Pecunia non olet (money does not smell)
You might now think: Has he finally lost his marbles? What’s going on here? Well, I have decided to regularly mention famous citations here and give a bit of an explanation about their background. And this first posting should of course be a bit of an eye-catcher. So here you go:
This is a Latin citation [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2008 under Smalltalk.
Tags: Citation
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My Favourite Game on the C-64
Many questions in life are not so easy to answer. However, when it comes to what my favourite game was on the C-64, it is different. There is only one answer possible and those who know me long enough know it:
The Great Giana Sisters
You can probably find the game these days on the various archives [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2008 under Smalltalk.
Tags: C-64, Commodore
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“The Rough Guide to Scottish Music”
Scottish music is more than just bagpipes. Probably the most well-known band is Runrig, although I sometimes get the impression that they had their greatest success in the 1990s. But the CD I want to recommend today is not from them (although I have some of their stuff and certainly like it).
Rough Guide to Scottish [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Review, Smalltalk.
Tags: Music, Review, Scotland
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The History of Commodore
If you spent your teen years in the middle to late 1980s chances are you owned a Commodore 64 home computer (or a C-128 as I did). For those of us that want to re-live these years there is now a chance.
On the Edge
Brian Bagnall. Variant Press 2005, Hardcover, 548 pages, $119.65
This book gives a comprehensive description from [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2008 under Review, Smalltalk.
Tags: Book, C-64, Commodore, Review
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