The Trumpkin
Today Cortana suggested that I use her algorithms to help decide what costume I should wear for Hallowe'en. I gave it a go.
This is...
New updates to my chatbot
I have spent most of Sunday having very daft conversations with my chatbot, Mac, and I am pleased to say that I am happy with progress so far. His dictionary...
This year's pumpkin is a Trumpkin
Every year I carve a pumpkin for Hallowe'en. This year's effort is the most frightening yet.
Introducing the Superdecade Games Donald Trumpkin...
Orange...
The A-Z of geek: F is for Flowers of Crystal
Primary school children throughout the 1980's got their first experience of computers via an adventure game called Granny's Garden. In this game you had...
The most impressive Little Man Computer Code...so far
What follows is some of the most impressive code written for the Little Man Computer that I have ever seen.
Thanks to Eric and Will, here is a 'general...
The A-Z of geek: E is for Elite
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I persuaded my father to spend £15 of his hard earned cash on software that I assured him would 'really help...
The A-Z of geek: D is for DOS
This summer I purchased an IBM PS/1 computer. This machine was originally released 26 years ago in 1990, the year that the Hubble space...
The A-Z of geek: C is for Crystal Caves
25 years ago this month, hapless space adventurer, Mylo Steamwitz first entered the caves of planet Altair, search for the crystals that he can sell at...
The A-Z of geek: B is for Baron
When I was eleven years old I was walking home from school with a friend to go and play at his house on his BBC microcomputer. I was describing a game...
The A-Z of geek: A is for Arcadians
I have decided to post a series of geeky things in alphabetical order. Most probably these will all be retro computer games that I play on my vintage...
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