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I’m going to be rich, rich I tell you!

Posted on 29 August 2024 by Jon

More an exercise in getting the mechanisms right for creating, loading and appending SEQ files in CBM Basic than the foolproof get rich program I secretly think it is, but you never know…. For some reason SEQ files always give me problems and it’s usually because I forget to use the correct flags, especially ‘a’…

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All Around The Wold

Posted on 21 August 202421 August 2024 by Jon

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 walks with us. It worked too, they really enjoyed it, and, back then, caches seemed to be way…

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Advent of Code 2023 Day 1

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code.  Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount of data caused memory overflow issues, so I split it into 4 separate parts for the data statements. I’ll list some code…

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Advent of Code Prep – 2023

Posted on 12 June 2024 by Jon

I like some direction and order in my life, or maybe I need it rather than like it, but either way Advent of Code is something that very much appeals to me as it gives us daily problems to solve and actually gets me coding and thinking. This year, actually my first year, I will be attempting…

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Adventure of Cleopatra’s Pyramid

Posted on 12 June 202427 February 2026 by Jon

This text adventure is from 1987 and was published by Falsoft Publishing, a publisher of magazines and books, primarily the Rainbow series, and it was in the third Rainbow Book of Adventures that this adventure first appeared. It was released for the TRS-80 Colour Computer and converted across to the C64 in the same year. Philip Newton is attributed…

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Jon's books

Men Without Women
liked it
Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
Prophet Song
it was ok
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
This is the first Booker winner I couldn’t get on with. The writing style annoyed me. I found it a hard slog to get through which isn’t what I generally look for in a book. Anyway, not for me, and if we all liked the same books what a bo...
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Three at the Angel
Three at the Angel
by Maurice Procter

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