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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, adventure game programming and design, reverse engineering. Partial to work in C, Scheme, and sometimes Haskell.

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