{"id":433,"date":"2003-08-15T03:34:37","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2003\/08\/15\/you-can-find-anything\/"},"modified":"2003-08-15T03:34:37","modified_gmt":"2003-08-15T09:34:37","slug":"you-can-find-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2003\/08\/15\/you-can-find-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"You can find anything …"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can find almost anything on the WWW. Yesterday, I was reading someone’s weblog and they mentioned the Commodore 64. This was not our first computer, but our second, after a VIC-20. We used it several years, before getting an XT, and passing the C-64, along with its software, to Jack’s youngest brother.
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\nOf the software that ran on that computer I remember two programs. One was a Logo interpreter, and the other was an arcade style game. It was my favorite game, and it was the only game I could only consistently beat Jack at. For years, I remember the screens occasionally, but could never remembered the name, just that the publisher was Electronic Arts.<\/p>\n

Seeing the mention of the C64, I decided to see if there was a site that would tell me the name of the game. I found c64.com,<\/a> and searched by Electronic Arts. On the second page of results, I found my game “Realm of Impossibility.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I recognized the opening screen, with the graphics that we thought were so fine at the time, and look so cheesy now. Then I noticed the little button “download game.” Surely not. I had vaguely known that people had written emulators for some of the old style games machines, but could I actually get one to work.<\/p>\n

I downloaded an emulator called VICE.<\/a> This was the second one I downloaded because I couldn’t figure out the first. A few minutes later I was staring at the opening screen of the game, and listening to the tinny music, which I recognized instantly. It took a while to figure out how to get the numeric key pad to work in lieu of a joystick, but I suddenly found myself playing the first level of the game.<\/p>\n

You can find almost anything on the Internet….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can find almost anything on the WWW. Yesterday, I was reading someone’s weblog and they mentioned the Commodore 64. This was not our first computer, but our second, after a VIC-20. We used it several years, before getting an XT, and passing the C-64, along with its software, to Jack’s youngest brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}