The 5 year science project

My friend Jim (the wise fella who often posts sage advice as comments on this blog) has been working on a project for awhile. He's got it nearly complete, and far enough along to look good.


Yes, it's an arcade game. "Which one?" you ask. Why, it's all of them! With the magic of Linux, MAME, a soldering iron, and imagination, my friend has built the ultimate home arcade gaming experience!

Nice workmanship! It still needs a bit of tweaking, but we had fun playing old games last night. The graphics, the sound, the crappy animations. Ahhh. It was like being back in the 80's again.

There it was in the corner of the bar.
I tried to run, but I didn't get far.

BTW, this is the guy who wrote his first game for the Apple II + in Hex codes. For you non-computer geeks out there, that would be similar to cutting down a tree with a knife. It works, but takes a LOOONG time, and there are other, quicker, tools available, such as a compiler. OTOH, there is a wayyyy-cool factor there. I wrote programs in Assembly Language, and I thought that was hard. Writing out the progam in Hex is one step above using ones and zeros!