(Please try to alternate between the two so that neither cloud host twigs that I’m hosting a radio show!) :)
As per the original post, we are using Bit.ly’s URL shortening so that Max can get a rough idea of the total number of downloads.
(*) Mental note: When working away from home (based in the countryside) and using the B&B’s quite slow internet, don’t try and upload the MP3 to both Box and DropBox at the same time … zzzzz
A good retro mate of mine, Max Hall, has been doing some C64 SID music radio shows on Radio Free Matlock.
His show is called the ‘Chip SID Show’ and a new show is done once a month. You can join his FB support page by clicking the logo above.
Max was hosting the shows in .FLAC format, but as he was using a freebie cloud account, there were a few problems due to their size – weighing in around 2gb for the 7 shows so far – it limited what else he could do with his personal cloud account.
So, to help him out, I’ve converted the .FLACs into .MP3 format and uploaded to my Professional DropBox and freebie Box cloud accounts.
I’ve put the links below in case anyone wants to grab hold of the current collection of episodes.
(Please try to use the alternate links for the various shows. It will help prevent both of my cloud accounts being hammered too much!)
I was trawling through an old hard-drive last weekend and I found a very old website backup from the early 2000s. Within the folder “trainers” were a lot of my old Windows 95/98 trainers which were mostly done using Trainer Maker Kit.
Grab your VirtualBox / Virtual PC, blow the dust off your Windows 95/98 images and track down (if they can be found) some of these old games and play around with these trainers.
There’s still a few (e.g. Tomb Raider 4) where all I have left are the .NFO files inside the .ZIP, but not the .EXE trainer itself :(
They could be out there in the wide world, but then again, there were (and still are) better trainer makers out there whose work would have been preserved more than mine.
Well, it’s the first on this site. I used to “do” a blog on an older version of this website way back in the mists of time, but after a run in with a member of staff at the company I was working at, I decided to delete it completely.
The lessons were learned and, with the exception of the blog posts on my “work” website, I haven’t bothered writing one for this site in over a decade!
So, whilst this blog won’t be as “busy” as my Word Toolbox one, I will attempt to use it primarily for site updates and planned site upgrades.
As is the remit to this site, the more “old stuff” that I can find to dump preserve on this site, the better :)
Plans for this site in 2019
I’ve got a few plans with regards to more content for this site. Some of it are old plans that just never got sorted out when I first had the brainwave(s), others are completely new.
I recently found where I’d stashed an old copy of my “Cheats Always Prosper” website which had (I think) a full set of my Windows 95/98 trainers. So the current page that hosts just one trainer example (that I could find in the wild) will now be updated with *all* of them :)
Revisiting my old GFA BASIC saved game editors and rework them to use the latest GFA BASIC compiler that Lonny Pursell has been working on.
Creating *new* saved game editors for the Atari ST games that “slipped the net” in my youth. I might also get around to finally finishing off and releasing the old DOS-based ones that I’ve been promising to do for years as well!
Actually adding the NDS “odds and sods” that I’ve found in my travels. I’ve covered what I’ve found already, but some won’t be allowed to be uploaded (as they are the full source code to the games), but the word dictionaries for old games are probably OK .. I hope.
So the above are the ones I can think of for now. More to come (I hope) in 2019.
