Burning Man

September 12, 2004July 21, 2015 ChrisLeave a comment

Pictures from my first Burning Man experience!

So what is Burning Man? Oh geez. Well… it’s this massive yearly gathering in the high desert north of Reno, Nevada. It’s a festival of art and creativity, of community and self-expression. It’s a temporary city where commerce is not permitted, giving is widespread and people meet each other through their participation in the event. It’s definitely an experience.

The event runs a full week but FileMaker’s Developer Conference always seems to coincide with it. So this year I decided to at least taste a few days of it. Bonnie and the rest of her burning clan were kind enough to let me join them at their camp, “Heaven a la Cart”.

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Crucible Fire Arts Festival

July 12, 2004December 17, 2013 ChrisLeave a comment

Click through for pictures and video clips from enjoying the Crucible Fire Arts Festival (July 10th, 2004) in Oakland with Bonnie and her friend:

Stephen and Vivian’s Baby Shower

December 8, 2003February 18, 2014 ChrisLeave a comment

Pictures from Stephen and Vivian’s baby shower, at my place – “yes, but where’s Vivian??” Click on through for the full gallery:

Home Theater Upgrade: Sony VPL-HS20 Projector

October 15, 2003February 19, 2018 ChrisLeave a comment

Okay, back in February of 2002 I said I didn’t expect to upgrade my home theater projector until full HDTV resolution was available, but I spoke too soon. It looks like affordable full HDTV projector resolution is still years off, so I’ve just sprung for the new Sony VPL-HS20. It boasts much improved contrast, more input options, better computer signal syncing, quieter fan, better pixel fill ratio, etc… all for half the price that I paid for my 10HT three and a half years ago. And yup, I looked around and found the best price at ProjectorPeople.com again. (Hey, if you buy from them, please mention me as a referral.)

David’s Birthday

July 28, 2003February 18, 2014 ChrisLeave a comment

Click through for a gallery of pictures from a little gaming party for David’s birthday at my place:

Wrath of Denethenor – Cheat myself back

July 12, 2003June 8, 2020 ChrisLeave a comment

Hiya. I was wondering if you knew (or remembered) the offsets (and such) in the Apple ][ code for WoD to well, cheat.

I got very far into WoD when I was 16 years old (I’m 33 now!).

Somehow, my game disks (one of them?) became corrupted, and I couldn’t finish the game. I recently downloaded an Apple ][ emulator and found roms to your game!

(Is this ok?) Anyway, I’d like to cheat myself back to where I was, or at least remove the stamina reduction over time functionality and such. The “Applewin” program seems to have a decent debugger.. though I’m racking my brain to remember 6502 assembly language. =)

I know it’s been a LONG time, but if you remember anything, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks for writing such a great game. Playing it again brings back some great memories.

-V-

Geez… talk about a backlog of old email…. sorry for the (yikes!) year long delay!Thanks for writing and thanks for your interest in WoD.

Here are some of the key offsets from the character file. (No, I most definitely am not recalling this from memory!!) I believe all the values were in BCD (binary coded decimal) — in other words, 255 would be represented in hex as “0255” not “00FF”. hit points: bytes 26 & 27, stamina: 28 && 29, gold: 30 & 31

Enjoy!

– Chris

Hehe, I was wondering why you never responded. ;)

Thanks for the answer!

Take care,

-V-

ps. I have some great memories of some of the first games I’ve ever really loved when I was just getting into computers in my teens. Thanks for one of them.