Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 38

Random colors in your ASCII art

One of the great things about writing your own scripts is that when you need new functionality, you can add it. I needed random colors in a single-character ASCII art image. It was easy to add to the asciiArt script. Here’s how.

OPPO DV-980H DVD player tray won’t open, won’t close

There is one rubber belt in the OPPO DV-980H DVD player that I could find. It’s used for opening and closing the tray. It is easily replaced if the tray has trouble opening and closing.

Mongols and turnips: coronavirus roundup

The Mongol and the Turnip farmer; Georgia on my mind; isolation causes death.

Deadly Perfection

Whenever the left wants to devalue someone’s life, they call it economics.

How Great Thou Art

Then sings my soul…

Origin vs. Destination sales taxes: where should Internet taxes go?

In the midst of one of the worst disasters for small businesses in my lifetime, the Texas Comptroller wants to make life even more difficult for them.

Blackhawk: Blitzkrieg at North Texas RPG Con

I’ll be running first edition DC Heroes at North Texas in 2020, on June 4.

Sub-Etha Software linked on Hacks

“Sub-Etha Software was started in 1990 by Allen Huffman and Terry Todd. It originally sold software for the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), both for Disk BASIC (RS-DOS) and Microware’s OS-9 Level 2. A few years later, Joel Hegberg joined and operated the OSK Midwest Division based in DeKalb, Illinois. This expanded Sub-Etha’s offerings to programs for the Interactive Media Systems MM/1 computer, which ran OS-9/68000 (OSK).” If you’re following me mainly for the TRS-80 Color Computer stuff, you will enjoy the Sub-Etha Software site. I barely remember them from back in the day—they got in a year or two before I got out, as I recall.

Media Scare Machine: The Sky is Falling

The media never told us to hoard toilet paper or cancel flights. They just told us that everything was shutting down and that we’d die if we flew. Totally different things.

SuperBASIC for the TRS-80 Color Computer

Make BASIC Fun Again. Use loops, switches, and subroutines while writing Extended Color BASIC code for the Radio Shack Color Computer.