I don’t currently have a subscription to The Licking News, so I don’t get to read Scott Hamilton’s column in print any more, and I’ve been light in stopping in on his blog, but really I should do so more often.
He recently had a couple of posts that interested me, of course.
- Commodore 128 Hardware Review. Growing up, he used his in Commodore 64 mode a lot because the Commodore 64 had more software titles to run. Ah, me, too, gentle reader, me, too. But I programmed some in Commodore 128’s BASIC 7.0 because it made it easier to make high (for the time) resolution graphics, sprites, and sounds. No need to poke and peek one memory location at a time. You can see some of my greatest hits in BASIC 7.0 here.
- Language of the Future. He goes through an old Compute! magazine. As I mentioned in the Noggle Library 2026 Edition, I have several years’ worth of Commodore and other computing magazines from the 1980s as well. Including Ahoy!, Run, Power Play and, yes, Compute!s Gazette.
You know, a couple of years ago I bought an old television so I could hook up Triticale’s Commodore 128, but I never seem to have the desk space. I’d hoped when I got the new development rig that I could move things so that the printers on the desk were under the desk, but the new machine is too darn big for all of that to fit. So maybe I’ll have to hook it up to the big television again. The big television, after all, has a Computer/TV switch on it already for the Atari and NES that we have out there.
