Sometimes you accidentally dive down a rabbit hole of your own making.I came across the Retro Computer Scene search engine a few days ago and accidentally clicked on a link to a Commodore 64 disk image. Those files are small at 175KB so I decided to keep it and look at it later. This morning I did and found Noice Driver v3.0a, a music disk for the Commodore 64 released in 1993. There are some great tunes on there but the name JEDININJA leapt out at me. It’s a good tune too! The filename of the disk image is sb130978-1fbef9.d64 […]
Apple
High Sierra and coreutils
Since MacOS High Sierra has been out for a long time this is probably old news to the tiny minority using coreutils. When you upgrade you might find that “df” and other commands don’t work properly. Every time I opened a terminal after upgrading I saw errors saying commands had been aborted. When I ran “df” it would abort immediately. I thought the upgrade had damaged my filesystem, especially since it introduced APFS. I ran “First Aid” in Disk Utility several times, both live and in recovery. It then occurred to me to try the MacOS df in /bin/. It […]
C64
My Favourite C64 Intro Music
The version of Super Snake Simulator I used to play on the C64 was a cracked version by The Wanderer Group. I loved the game but the music in the intro was an infectious tune. Listening to it in a Youtube video doesn’t have quite the same impact. It cuts off a bit too early as well. Perhaps rose tinted glasses and all that? It does bring back memories of typing “left arrow” L to load games from a tape and “Turbo Tape by Jeff”, the tape loader used to pack more games on to one cassette. Piracy was rife […]
C64
Vice – autostart with a directory
Vice, the Commodore 64 emulator is a cross platform emulator that works on Windows, Linux, MacOS and other operating systems. It also allows you to emulate the Vic 20, C128 and other early Commodore machines. Double clicking on a Commodore d64 disk image file will load x64, the Commodore 64 emulator and load the first programme on the disk image. Quite often I want to look at a D64 image directory listing instead of running the first programme on the disk. You can do this by unchecking the “autostart” box on the file open box of course but it’s not […]
WordPress
WP Super Cache 1.6.3
WP Super Cache is a full page caching plugin for WordPress. When a page is cached almost all of WordPress is skipped and the page is sent to the browser with the minimum amount of code executed. This makes the page load much faster. 1.6.3 is the latest release and is mostly a bugfix release but it also adds some new features. Added cookie helper functions (#580) Added plugin helper functions (#574) Added actions to modify cookie and plugin lists. (#582) Really disable garbage collection when timeout = 0 (#571) Added warnings about DISABLE_WP_CRON (#575) Don’t clean expired cache files […]