To praise the glorious Fifty-nine!

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Winston Smith

“Up to 1761, British forces had enjoyed mixed success in amphibious assaults on French soil. At the start of the war they had only very vague ideas about how to Continue Reading →

Weekend 605.0 (Empire)

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Winston Smith

“…but British expertise in amphibious operations had begun to turn the tide.” — Sam Willis (1) The British humble the Americans in Ceylon. This video demonstrates a strategy for managing a Continue Reading →

Weekend 601.0

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Winston Smith

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not Continue Reading →

Weekend 590.0

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Winston Smith

There’s no monument at Repentance Junction to mark the heroes of that last campaign but history will memorialize their sacrifice.

Game Review: RAILGRADE

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Winston Smith

It’s embarrassing HOW many hours I spent playing Railroad Tycoon, SimCity, A-Train, and Locomotion in my formative years. RAILGRADE is the penultimate evolution of those precursors with great storytelling. And Continue Reading →

Weekend 578.0 (Retro Gaming, Baseball, and Nostalgia)

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Winston Smith

I couldn’t get the Box Score and Stats Compiler for Microleague Baseball to work on my APPLE IIE emulator but was able to on a Commodore 64 emulator. Scrambling now Continue Reading →

ATARI® Retro Box

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Winston Smith

Inspired by the ART OF ATARI® and Sim Train World 3 to create some original retro box artwork. I think something related to Kingdom Hearts is next. Atari brings a Continue Reading →

Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary (PII)

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Winston Smith

After Sora fades on Destiny Islands what does Kairi do next? Did Sora say something prior? The single tear seems to indicate resignation versus shock. Sora knows he’s vanishing (after Continue Reading →

Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Winston Smith

“Thinking of you, wherever you are.” — Kingdom Hearts Tetsuya Nomura has created a story and world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Here are a couple of YouTube links Continue Reading →

Second Star to the Right

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Winston Smith

I haven’t beaten the Mysterious Figure in BBS on the PSP 3000. I still have my PSP but the UMD often fails. My favorite boss in this list is the Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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