Captain's Quarters

## Card Collecting There’s something unsettling about watching a child flip through a Pokémon card collection, only to see each card reduced to a dollar amount scribbled on a Post-it note attached to the sleeve of that card.

This year my side project of choice was to create a brand new game for Palm OS, it started out as something that I thought I would finish in a month but ended up taking more than half a year in the end.

Growing up in the 90s, television was a different experience.

I built a lightweight command-line tool that lets you quickly browse a directory of plain text snippets, select one using fuzzy search, and instantly copy its contents to your clipboard. ## Before I used to rely on a Firefox snippet manager for email repl…

StarGrid started in January of this year as a tiny proof-of-concept that I would certainly finish in a month.

I started developing StarGrid in January of this year, after many intermittent evenings of planning and working on the game, I'm happy to say that a playable alpha version is now available for download!

For my game StarGrid, I need to add some CPU opponents (note that I'm avoiding using any AI related wording here, since this gets a different connotation nowadays).

All of these are just out of the top of my head, there's so much more that I'm probably leaving out now and this generally happens everytime I do a multi-day cycling tour.

As a side project this year I'm going to be creating another game for Palm OS.

Browsing the web can become a very tiring experience when each website or even section of each website is sporting a different font.

## History In the late 90's my SlackWare Linux distribution came bundled with a neat little game called xBill.

# Foreword On a rainy Sunday, I decided to dive into some Palm OS games I had missed back in the day.

This is a follow up to my previous post: =>2024-07-18-retro-coding-journey-into-creating-a-palmos-minigolf-game.gmi Retro Coding Like It's 1999: My Journey into creating a Palm OS MiniGolf Game This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-n…

Twenty years ago, during my college days, I dabbled in developing games for Palm OS.

I've always felt that the way we kept track of things around the house could be improved.

I recently described how I got my hands on a 20 year old Palm Zire 72s with a dead battery that I managed to bring back to life.

As some of you know, I'm a sucker for PDA's.

I remember getting hold of a shareware cd containing Caesar II and playing the demo endlessly.

If you watched Office Space, you might have a clue where the title of this post came from.

In this post I'm going over all the automations I've set up on my home server to notify me of a couple of things that are important to me.

Once again a new package arrived with one of my favorite bits of computing history: it's another trackball!

Some colleagues of mine had the wild idea to try saying no to any added sugar for a month.

My take on: => gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/1-13.gmi Things I Miss About The Old Internet (Incomplete) by Winter # Time period For me the old Internet started in the mid-90's when I occasionally got access to the internet through: a) the 'one'

Since my young boy loves to mash keyboard buttons, I thought it would be a good idea to get him something of his own.

I often enjoy looking through adverts and product reviews in old computer magazines.

Sometimes I get bitten by a nostalgia bug, usually this results in me gathering old tech-relics or playing DOS games, but this time I want to focus on 90's TV.

My morning routine consists of getting out of bed and having a tea.

5:00 AM Awake in bed 5:05 AM Let's get up 5:06 AM Noticing the clear night sky 5:07 AM Getting my telescope out!

In my previous post I wrote about my aquisition of a 90's trackball: => 2023-08-30-90s-kids-trackball.gmi 90's Kids Trackball While it still worked, it did not feel smooth to roll the ball around.

Without further ado, today I got a first edition Microsoft EasyBall in the mail (first edition came with a serial connection, later editions have those fancy new PS/2 type of connectors). => images/20230830_microsoft_easyball.jpg Microsoft EasyBall This w…

Every now and then I get nostalgic, get online and order some of the gadgets that I craved for back in the day.

I've always had a strong connection to Palm OS devices.