I’ve got a new game that’s just been updated with additional content. I announced this JRPG style game back in December of 2023 when I finished it, but I’ve been busy lately doing some tweaking, bug fixing, and adding things to the ending of the game. So if you missed it back then, now is […]
Want a portable gaming system with a large screen and full Windows compatibility? Don’t have several hundreds of dollars to spend on the Steam Deck or one of its knock-offs? Get a used netbook! That right there is the venerable HP Mini Note 2133. I bought that back in 2008 when it came out. It […]
To close out 2023, I’ve got a new game to announce. Mechatropolis is a JRPG-style video game I made in RPG Maker, like my previous games. This one is a porn game, however, with the premise of having sex with androids. At Kishin’s urging I included a story-line into it too. It’s free, so give […]
Have you ever taken an inside joke way too far? About 15 years ago, I was chatting on Yahoo Messenger with my good friend Keizo, and I made the typo to end all typos. I was trying to type the phrase “complain first”, but instead I typed “pomplain forst”. I don’t really know how that […]
Have you ever had something suddenly pop into your mind for no apparent reason? A few weeks ago I was in my Robotman house, being Robotman, doing Robotman things, when all of a sudden I thought of RPG Maker. I remember nearly 20 years ago I learned about RPG Maker, and even downloaded it to […]
It’s been just over seven years since Microsoft officially ended support for Windows XP. Most people have moved on to Vista, 7, 8, and 10 since long before then. Hell, crazy people like me have even moved over to Linux, and there are those Mac people too. That’s not even to mention the amount of […]
Move ’em on, head ’em up Head ’em up, move ’em on Move ’em on, head ’em up, emulation Cut ’em out, ride ’em in Ride ’em in, cut ’em out Cut ’em out, ride ’em in, emulation After not really playing emulated video games for nearly five years, I think it’s time to catch […]
I’m not immune to that irrational surge of emotion one gets when receiving a new toy. And in my case, I get most excited about computer hardware – surprise, surprise. My windows XP gaming computer handled all my favourite late ’90s and early ’00s games like Age of Empires, Lords of the Realm II, Civilization […]
Hooray! Oh no! Yes folks, here in Canada, July 1 marks a momentous day. And that day is the 10-year anniversary of the day I decided to ditch Microsoft Windows and switch to Linux.¹ It was July1, 2007 when I made the switch, and I remember being excited about partitioning the hard drive on my […]
Does anyone remember those replica Commodore 64 computers? I bought one when they came out six years ago, and I had been using it as my main “Internet” computer ever since. It had served me well over the years, and had looked very cool on my desk, I must say. I had also customized the […]
It’s the operating system that won’t die! And even though I primarily use Xubuntu and other Linux-based operating systems for my PCs, I still use Windows XP. I also use Windows 98, but that’s another blog post. My use of Windows XP is restricted to a virtual machine here on this main computer of mine. […]
Just what you’ve always wanted! Now you can re-live the glory days of the late 80s when the Commodore Amiga computer was the most advanced multimedia computer you could get without buying a special effects workstation. Since I use a replica Commodore 64, and since I have the interface themed to look as Commodore/Amiga-like as […]
What am I doing up at 4am? I was all done sleeping, I guess. And what better time to regale you with tales of shit which you care not the least! Like the subject of these two partial screenshots I took back in January that I thought were remarkable at the time. The top image […]
One of my hobbies, I guess, is extending the usable lifespan of my first PC. This is a vintage 1998 Hewlett Packard Pavilion 8260 with maxed out RAM (384MB) and a Pentium II clocked at 266 MHz. It has run Windows 98 for most of its existence, and over the last half dozen years or […]
I’m not much of a fan of silent autocorrect. That is to say, I like spellcheck and all, but I don’t like the silent and automatic bullshit that has crept into word processors and other software over the years because most people are either too lazy or too stupid to use the tools on their […]
I imagine some suit at Microsoft sneering this line after emasculating poor Microsoft Security Essentials for Christmas laughs late last year. This info is a little old now, but since I’m on a “write about Microsoft products” kick on this here crappy blog, I thought I’d mention it anyway. According to a computer lab filled […]
Have I made fun of Microsoft Bob before on this blog? I don’t believe I have. Well, if you’ve ever heard about MS Bob before, you probably didn’t hear anything good. Read that link above to find out what the fuck was going on. To this day, I don’t think anyone really knows why the […]
I’ve been having a delightful time playing old PC video games on my Windows 98 laptop. As described below, it’s a fairly new cheap laptop that runs Lubuntu as its OS and runs Windows 98 in Virtualbox. So I decided to fill up the massive 10GB hard drive I gave it in VB by installing […]
With Microsoft Works 4.5 for Windows 95!
Since I run my shiny new (old) Windows 98 installation inside VirtualBox, there are some things that just don’t work. Like I mentioned below, Midi is one of them. But a lot of DOS functionality seems to be broken too. I’ve noticed that whenever a DOS window opens, my screen goes black and all I […]
Okay, I’m 15 years late in celebrating this operating system. And I think I can only celebrate anything Microsoft or Windows at all because it fills a particular niche for me. This is odd for me to like Windows 98 so much, because it was Windows 95 and Windows 98 that taught me to hate […]
I like to try out different operating systems. This is mainly because I am a geek. I like to see what some group of developers has done with a kernel and a desktop environment and a software ecosystem. Linux is a good example of this. I should actually say GNU-Linux. Technically (those of you who […]
I’ve recently been playing around with a new-ish distro called Bodhi Linux. It’s a light-weight distro, and since I’m a cheap bastard who likes to spend not much money on underpowered hardware, I like to get the most I can out of my OS. That’s why I use primarily Xubuntu and Lubuntu, and even Puppy […]
Go ahead and listen to this song right now. Watch the video if you want. That Rob Halford is one entertaining dude. My favourite singer, by the way. He even edges out Dan McCafferty for that honour. But I digest digress. I’m not even going to pretend that this post is about that song you’re […]
Cue scientifical music. That’s better. This post is the first post written on my “writing laptop” since I dun reformatted the hard drive since I dun got me a rootkit on it. See below for the horrid, treacherous details of that. Sordid? Yeah, add sordid to that list of adjectives too. Am I making any […]
You think I’d be leery of installing any software on a Sony branded disc after the horribly unethical way that the Sony rootkit scandal went down years ago. But I was a fool. The long story short: I installed Blu-Ray writing software from Sony on my Windows XP laptop, and that software installed something called […]
I meant to post this post a while ago. Back when the details were fresh in my memory. So please excuse me if they are fuzzy or wrong. This last Spring, I had two of my computers die on me – within 5 days of each other. That fucking sucked. One of those computers was […]
Yesterday on Reddit, I saw a post titled “How to install Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 in Linux”. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Seriously? Okay, do something fun… look down at the very next blog post on this very site. Okay. All in good fun. Ha ha. I made this […]
Or some bastardized mishmash of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 and Windows 98? Actually it’s my writing laptop with a definite oldschool look that gives me a chuckle every time I use it. For the record, this is Xubuntu 12.04. It all started when I was bored and upgrading from Xubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. Contrary […]
Here’s another nerdy story for you all! Gather around the glow of the CRT, it’s time to get geeky! I recently got a DVD from Jolly Old England (that’s what the country is officially called, I think) because it’s so obscure I couldn’t get it here in Canada. The video is this: Made by these […]
Another update to my long dormant blog. And only possible because I had a vacation day on Friday and therefore this is a long weekend for me. Friday was a very bad day for me though. Fuck you, weather headaches. Lately, I’ve been using my laptop more and more. This was one I bought in […]
Thanks again to the intrepid Uncle Furry, I’ve found out about a great program from the makers of CCleaner. It’s called Defraggler, and if you use that steaming pile of shit known as Windows Vista, you need this program. See, since the old old days of Windows 95, Microsoft has included a utility to defragment […]
I have been, over the last 10 days or so, been fixing up a friend’s laptop for her. You see, I knew there was something wrong with it when she emailed me about great deals on Rolex watches. So, knowing that she had malware problems, and knowing that I’m a computer geek who actually likes […]
dBpowerAmp is a great program. It is actually a suite of applications with different features, and the ones I use the most are the music converter and the CD ripping program. Actually, I have used the CD ripping program a lot in the past and I will use it a lot in the future because […]
Just like in Windows… an update can fuck up your favourite programs. I’ve blabbed before about how my favourite CD ripping program (Grip) no longer works, and now I’d like to bitch about how the replacement I found (Ripper X) doesn’t do as good a job as it should. Let’s start with mp3 tags. I […]
Praise be to Uncle Furry, for he hath bestowed upon me a 10 year old Thinkpad with which to bask in the glory of Windows 98 SE! Hosanna! I had originally considered reinstalling one of the virtual Windows XP setups I run as a virtual OS inside Linux. As you are probably tired of hearing, […]
FUCK. This is one exciting blog I maintain here, isn’t it? I mean, where else on the vast interwebs can you go to read what some random dipshit has to say about computers, old music and his perverted sexual interest in female androids? Nowheres, that’s wheres. If you want a gateway to the new “Information […]
Here’s a long and uninteresting story. Kind of like everything else on this blog. Except some of this drivel is mercifully short. Anyway, I am a fan of the 1996 game Civilization II. I play it a lot. It wastes a lot of my time, actually. I’ve spent hours playing it when I should have […]
Look at him! He’s riding the turtle! Actually, it’s a tortoise. But who cares! Look at him! And like all slow rides, this ride gets you there eventually. If you’ve been paying attention to this blog… and honestly, I don’t know who the fuck in their right mind would, I mean come on. Even I […]
I’ve got everything reinstalled now and aside from virtual Windows being slower, everything is better or the same as how I had it before. My grammar sucks but that is because I’m tired. So sue me. I actually spent a bit more time setting up Windows than I would have liked. Reason? Apparently Windows XP […]
Right here in Virtual River City. With a Virtual Tea and that rhymes with “W” and that stands for “Windows XP”. Apologies to Robert Preston. Theoretically, it is possible to take a virtual installation of a guest OS with you and use it on any computer that has your virtualization software installed on it. To […]
Alas, my internet PC has dun gone all fuckled. I boot, she freeze. I boot, she freeze. Sigh. Tarnation! I hadn’t upgraded or reinstalled Xubuntu on this thing for a while… it was still running 9.04. And now I think I’ll have to reinstall the whole damn shebang. Now, this computer has 2 hard drives. […]
Windows started life as a stand-alone workstation OS. Which is fine, if you don’t want any of that “networking” stuff bogging you down. Back in the 80s, when Bill Gates was actually writing code alongside his Microsoft cohorts, and when Max Headroom stuttered his way into our hearts… No one wanted or needed to connect […]
Anyone ever hear of a computer game called “The Sims”? I know, it’s pretty darn obscure. I bought the first version back in… oh… let’s check Wikipedia again… 2000. I remember I was reading about what a different kind of game it was. I found it appealing because I liked to design, build, and decorate […]
Okay. Back in the days of Windows 95 and 98, I learned how to customize my setup as best as I could. This included changing desktop wallpaper, the window buttons and title bars, the Start Menu, the sounds, and the mouse cursors. I customized other things too, but let’s not get carried away here. This […]
I made a post a while back about how I upgraded my parents’ laptop from Xubuntu 9.04 to 10.04. It went well. But since I upgraded, I didn’t get to take advantage of the vast improvements in boot times that came along with the newest version. Also, I didn’t get my chance to try setting […]
I’m a lazy guy. I read a lot while I surf the net, and I have a screen reader do all the work for me. Currently, I have TextAloud mp3 do that for me on this computer. It runs in a virtual Windows XP installation that I have in “seamless mode” in VirtualBox on my […]
My experience with upgrading my Ubuntu (and Xubuntu) systems from version 9.04 through 10.04 seems to have gone well. As I blabbed about in a post below, I upgraded my parents’ laptop first, then did the same to my own laptop. Now, I’ve done the process to my music computer. I was worried about this […]
What a lazy layabout I am. Also, I am a nerdy neerdowell, a silly scofflaw and a mischievous malcontent. And I have had a day of fun with my two very old computers. One of these I have had since 1998. The other is a recent acquisition, courtesy of Uncle Furry. Thanks Uncle Furry! First, […]
I got off work at 2:30pm today. And that’s a good thing because I’m mentally and physically exhausted from Wednesday… and the rest of the week too. But mostly Wednesday. What a fucking day. And Wednesday is in honour of our god Odin. Praise be to him! You see, Odin had some crows to help […]