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Directory

• SNDFIX.EXE - Dinopark Tycoon (1993) audio repack: Patch to update the original sound effects with lower volumes to avoid being unpleasantly loud.
• XCompy: Linux-only, alpha/proof-of-concept libretro (RetroArch) core for leveraging RetroArch's shaders+scaling on arbitrary X11 Windows.
• Tools to edit Vic Rice's DOS Scrabble Game
• The Zen of Kayaking, a Z3 text adventure game for DOS - available on itch.io, credited as co-creator.
  Check out the Matrix parody teaser video for the game.
• Hugo's House of Horrors DOS Christmas Card with PC speaker music.
• Mastodon profile
• Bluesky profile

Interests

DOS games, interactive fiction, adventure game programming and design, reverse engineering, POV-Ray. Partial to work in C, Scheme, and sometimes Haskell. I started programming in C and assembly in 1998, and Scheme and Haskell a few years after, owing much to online communities for peer support. For me, programming is fun and creative expression.

I'm currently working on writing, programming, music, and sound effect design for 2D games with pixel turkey. Also contributing page design, typesetting and 3D feature art for Chickem Comic. Exploring Godot for a 3D adventure game project too.

Personal Computers

Three of these were shared family computers.

• ??/1989: Osborne 286 12MHz, VGA, 2MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 5.25" FDD, 3.5" FDD. MSDOS 4, MSDOS 5 / Windows 3.1
• ??/1997: Pentium MMX 200Mhz, 64MB RAM, S3 ViRGE + 3dfx Voodoo 1. Win95/98/Slackware.
• ??/2001: Pentium III 866Mhz, 256MB RAM. GeForce2 MX400. Windows 2000 / Debian
• ??/2003: HP Omnibook Pentium III ???MHz, 256 MB RAM (dumpster dive find). Windows 2000 / Debian
• 06/2005: Intel Celeron 2.4GHz CPU - S478, 512 MB RAM, Gecube ATi Radeon 9550 128MB / GeForce 5???. Ubuntu.
• 05/2007: Intel Q6600, 2GB RAM, Gainward GeForce 8800 GTS Golden Sample 320MB. Ubuntu.
• 05/2009: Intel Core2 Duo T9400, 512MB GeForce 9600GT, 4GB DDR2 (HP DV5-1139TX). Vista.
• 06/2011: Core i7 2630QM,6GB DDR3, Intel HD 3000 graphics (ASUS A53E-SX230V). Windows 7 / Ubuntu
• 01/2014: Intel 4960HQ, Intel Iris Pro 5200. Mac OS X.
• 09/2019: AMD Geode NX 1GHz, HP t5720. Windows 98.
• 09/2019: Transmeta Crusoe 800Mhz, 256MB RAM, HP t5710. Windows 98. VAX MIPS rating: 647.410. 1137500 Dhrystones/sec.
• 11/2019: VIA Eden X2 U4200 1GHz. HP t510, Win 7.
• 01/2021: Intel 10900K, Intel UHD 630. Ubuntu.
• ??/2024: Intel i5-6500, Intel HD Graphics 530. 4GB RAM. DVD-RW. Debian 12. 23685.236 VAX MIPS. 41614960 Dhrystones/sec. 6399.96 bogomips.
• 06/2024: Intel i5-10210U, Intel UHD Graphics. 8GB RAM. ThinkPad L13. Windows 10.
• 02/2025: Asus Chromebit CS10 (2015). RK3288 (4x 1.8GHz) Linux CrawfishOS 5.9.12-CrawfishOS-blobby #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 30 23:29:49 CDT 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux. VAX MIPS score: 5593. 9827008.7 Dhrystones/sec. 45.44 BogoMIPS.

Changelog

• 2026-06-07: Added a weblinks.html page in the spirit of 88x31.
• 2026-06-02: Added a RSS feed.
• 2026-06-02: New post - Lorem gypsum.
• 2026-06-06: Added ThinkPad L13. Picked up cheap to run Windows 10. Wouldn't recommend without throttling CPU. 6/10 for screen and thermals.
• 2026-05-13: Added Dinopark Tycoon SFX repack patch.
• 2025-03-12: Added i5-6500 to PCs.
• 2025-02-25: Added link to XCompy
• 2025-02-16: Added Chromebit CS10 to PCs. Also added VAX MIPS+Dhrystone score for Transmeta Cruesoe 800MHz.
• 2024-12-20: Added page for Vic Rice's DOS Scrabble Game
• 2024-12-16: Page created