{"id":35002,"date":"2026-03-12T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35002"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:32:03","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t currently have a subscription to <em>The Licking News<\/em>, so I don&#8217;t get to read Scott Hamilton&#8217;s column in print any more, and I&#8217;ve been light in stopping in on his blog, but really I should do so more often.<\/p>\n<p>He recently had a couple of posts that interested me, of course.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techshepherd.org\/techtalk\/commodore-128-hardware-review\/\" target=\"_new\">Commodore 128 Hardware Review<\/a>.  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&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/commodore-128-as-nature-intended-it\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techshepherd.org\/techtalk\/language-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_new\">Language of the Future<\/a>.  He goes through an old <em>Compute!<\/em> magazine.  As I mentioned in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/the-noggle-library-2026-edition\/\" target=\"_new\">Noggle Library 2026 Edition<\/a>, I have several years&#8217; worth of Commodore and other computing magazines from the 1980s as well.  Including <em>Ahoy!<\/em>, <em>Run<\/em>, <em>Power Play<\/em> and, yes, <em>Compute!s Gazette<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know, a couple of years ago I bought an old television so I could hook up Triticale&#8217;s Commodore 128, but I never seem to have the desk space.  I&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t currently have a subscription to The Licking News, so I don&#8217;t get to read Scott Hamilton&#8217;s column in print any more, and I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35004,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions\/35004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}