C64GLeN – The blog of Glen McNamee

Weekend Links

By Glen McNamee | June 26, 2009

For the first time in ages, here is my recommending weekend reading list presented on time for you to actually read at the weekend.

Scribbler is talking about Haircuts and polishing turds.
Are games too cheap? asks Merman in his obscure gamer column
Andy from Andys Retro Computers has news of BBC recording film about Acorn versus Sinclair.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tells us why Jesus really died for our sins.
Septicisle of Obsolete looks at the A new media martyr and the Madness of War.
Finally the BBC bring us the distrubing story of a South African rapist asking to be forgiven .

Enjoy.

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Retro Happenings

By Glen McNamee | June 23, 2009

It is said that bad thing come in threes, however this is mostly said by superstitious people so I usually just ignore them. What I do know for sure, is that, recently Retro things come in threes.

First of all Tonight the lovely Anna Black is returning to the air waves (or the Internet waves, although air waves is still valid for Wi-Fi, I guess) on Slay Radio with the Anna Black – Anorak

Secondly Thermostatic’s concent from Wonderland’s Summer Festival Season Warm Up at Storan in Gothenburg, Sweden will be played live on SceneSat radio. Thermostatic are a favourite of mine and are known for their SID-packed blip-blop sound with smooth female vocals

And finally Stone Oakvalley, the people who brought us the Stone Oakvalley’s Authentic SID Collection (SOASC) an amazing collection of MP3 Archive (154473 files) of music recorded from real C64s (6581R2, 6581R4 & 8580R5), and now bring us the Stone Oakvalley’s Amiga Music Collection(SOAMC=) project the world’s largest archive of authentic Commodore Amiga music! It’s 115342 MP3 tunes based on 157 different Amiga formats giving a total playtime of 196 days. Here’s a preview video;

Topics: Music, Technology, c64 | 1 Comment »

Some links for the… week.

By Glen McNamee | June 22, 2009

I haven’t done one of these for a while, so here are the bits of the internet that caught my eye in the last few weeks.

First of all we have Upside Down Dogs in which you can View, Rate and Post Pictures of Puppy Dogs who just happen to be upside down.
Lee Medcalf looks at Hollywoods latest awful habit, prequels in Fandom Menace – Where’s the mystery!?
Anton Vowl looks at the nasty end of Britain’s got Talent
Cosmo’s “Naked” Issue is examined by Jonathan with unique results
Sennydreadful tells us about her Guilty Book Buying Secret
Merman brings us a review of Boom Blox Bash Party which has already been purchased for the c64glen family Wii.
Septicisle of Obsolete talks about Analogue Britain.
Finally J.A. has dug through his pile of e-mails to bring you another caring letter from an adoring fan.

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Father’s Day

By Glen McNamee | June 21, 2009

Happy Father’s day all. The boy got me a rather cool Commodore T-shirt and Mug. Check out the photo below, but excuse the hair.

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Transformers 2 will suck and you’re an idiot if you think otherwise.

By Glen McNamee | June 18, 2009

Transformers 2 opens tomorrow, but balls to paying to see that rubbish just so I can review it for you.

Here’s my review of Micheal Bay’s first Transformers movie. I can’t imagine this film is going to be any different, since it’s still got the same idiot writers and the same terrible director. So if you enjoy terrible dialogue, poorly shot actions sequences, lots of uninteresting throwaway human characters, racism, over the top American Jingoism, no character development, blatant product placement, terrible Transformer designs, and have an unhealthy obsessions with Megan Fox, then you should go and see it.

Topics: Film, Transformers | 3 Comments »

Screw New Year Resolution Updates

By Glen McNamee | June 9, 2009

You know I’m sure you are sick of reading about how much I have repeatedly failed making any progress towards my New Year Resolution month after month as much I am sick of telling you about. So here is my last post of the year on that subject.

If I was to say the update for May and for the rest of the year could be summed up in one word, I’m sure it will not surprise you if that word was Fail which it obviously is.

So now I’m finished with my new years resolutions I really must start Project Awesome because I’m only happy when I’m setting unrealistic goals for myself.

I’m sure you are looking forward to reading about that.

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The Weekage Linkpile

By Glen McNamee | May 29, 2009

I didn’t give any links last week (or blog posts for that matter) so lets pretend this weekends lot makes up for it,

At long last The Burnely Wallet is back with a look back over the Football seasons.
Cassetteboy are also back with The bloody apprentice.
The System has a comic that could have been writen about me.
Weebl sings about a Baby Baboon
ObscureInternet has more tips on Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
Twitter has all aflutter about the C64 Camera for iPhone!
Finally Bloggerheads give us a alterative and honest look at The BNP’s Billy Brit, and because it’s too good not to post the video is below.

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A little change

By Glen McNamee | May 20, 2009

I’ve spent the last few hours tidying up the look of the blog a little.

The main changes are in the sidebar. I’ve add the Category Cloud Widget, Flexo Archives and the Get Recent Comments plugins. Reorganised the order of the sidebar items and used Ray Cheung’s free social media icons to link to my Social profiles. To get the most out of the Category Cloud Widget I’ll have to ot amended the categories of a lot of old (pre-wordpress) posts, as most are still set to the default category which is Random.

Finally I’ve added a little CSS to make blog comments look a little clearer and use gravatar images too.

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C64 Loading Screens Vectorised

By Glen McNamee | May 19, 2009

Over at DailyRodent forum member Mugsy has been vectorising some C64 loading screens, grabbed from an emulator. The results are rather amazing, so I thought I would collect them all on one page for your viewing pleasure. Click to view Desktop sized.