9 Albums That Made Me
This week's fad over on the socials is My 9 Albums. I am a hopeless joiner-inner so did throw one together fairly quickly over a cup of coffee, but have had a bit more time to think about it and come...
Ten Albums To Take To The Grave
Thanks to Gavin and Chris over on mastodon and their recent blog posts about owning your music, and owning it for life, I have decided to have a go myself. Which albums would you choose to accompany y...
2604
First of all, you’ll notice this isn’t 1990 by SpectreSoft – the game simply can not be found and it is highly likely it was never released. So we move on… Here we have another short game written in t...
The 64 Scene Adventure
I could find very little information about this game other than what it told me itself. The programming was by Asterix/Victory, the idea and text by Gotcha, and the excellent music by Link/Vibrants. Y...
Cavern Of Riches
Cavern of Riches was one of four adventures on the Adventure Pak release from Keypunch Software. Keypunch was one of the first shareware distributors and ran from 1985 to 1993, also rel...
Adventure in Time and Space
Adventure in Time and Space is the first text adventure on my list that was written by Dorothy Millard. I’d come across Dorothy’s name before, but I had never really looked into her or her backst...
Adventure Island
After a little break we’re back in the saddle, and heading off to Adventure Island. Adventure Island is a public domain game written by J.B.Cattley and playtested by none other than Ms Millard! This i...
Geocaching
I started geocaching in 2005. It was fairly new then and there weren't that many caches around, but the driving force behind starting it up was to give my then young kids some incentive to come on wal...
From The Archives - Advent Of Code 2023
Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code on a Commodore 64. Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount o...