Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 39
March 28, 2020
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.
March 25, 2020
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.
March 18, 2020
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.
March 11, 2020
Lemon icebox pie for Pi Day
Are you ready for Pi Day? If you trust your eggs, there is nothing like pies made from beaten egg yolks and egg whites.
March 6, 2020
becoming DM linked on The Biblyon Broadsheet
“Whether you’re a classic or fresh DM, John and Felicia’s varied experience is sure to provide you that extra information you need to amp up your tabletop game.” Becoming DM is a neat podcast about… becoming a DM, by an experienced game master and a new game master. The topics covered so far run from creating NPCs, to building a setting, to dealing with problem players.
They’ve been getting a little long-winded lately, but most of them run only about half an hour, for those of us with curious minds but short attention spans!
They’ve been getting a little long-winded lately, but most of them run only about half an hour, for those of us with curious minds but short attention spans!
March 4, 2020
California never had a free market power failure
California’s experiment in free market power generation has become mythological in how it is remembered. The left is desperate to tar it as a free market failure. But California’s experiment wasn’t free market. It was a massive government-managed exchange practically designed to cause high prices.
February 26, 2020
Friends of the New Braunfels Public Library Annual Book Sale
The annual New Braunfels Library sale is well worth a visit if you live nearby.
February 19, 2020
Is the Catholic Church pro-human trafficking?
“By their deeds shall they be known.” But by their deeds rather than their words, the Catholic Church is dangerously pro-human trafficking. And by elevating good intentions over deeds, they are falling dangerously into pagan thought.
February 12, 2020
Adding parenthetical asides to photograph titles on macOS
Use Applescript to append a parenthetical to the titles of all selected photographs in Photos on macOS.
