Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 13th, 2014 in MainFor close to ten years, most of my carded Star Wars figures have been stored away in plastic bins. I just haven’t had a good way or place to display them. While out shopping this weekend I had a moment of inspiration. After moving a few things around, I freed up a 4×8′ wall area in the Star Wars room. I picked up a 4×8′ sheet of pegboard from Home Depot for $15. I quickly discovered that the pegboard was exactly 8′ tall and the wall is only seven foot, eleven and a half inches. The first thing I had… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 8th, 2014 in Apple II, MainWell… not “new” new. While it’s no secret I’m a Commodore fanboy, I do like to give credit where credit is due. Although pretty much across the board the Commodore 64 versions of games looked better than their Apple II counterparts, there was one thing I was always jealous of — the Apple II’s second fire button. While Commodore opted to use the standard Atari 2600 DB9 joystick port, Apple went with an analog format that supported two fire buttons. Both designs have advantages and disadvantages, but there were several games that took advantage of that second button on the… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 3rd, 2014 in Apple II, MainBack in December I wrote a blog post about trying to make one working Apple IIe out of four parts machines. The project hit a snag when none of the parts machines I had acquired had drive controller cards. For the past three months I’ve had a table out in my garage that looks like this: While digging around in a “junk drawer” upstairs over the weekend, I found the missing piece: a drive controller. That’s kind of how I work; a project that’s been dormant for months will suddenly leap to life. It’s the offspring of too many projects… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 2nd, 2014 in Star Wars, ToysYou could say I’ve been collecting “Star Wars stuff” my entire life. Some of the oldest toys and action figures in my collection are the ones I got Christmas morning, 1978. Throughout the 80s I acquired a lot of stuff, and in the mid-90s when Star Wars was re-released in theaters and they began making new toys, I began collecting those as well. But it wasn’t until the late 90s that I began collecting vintage toys. Up until that point in time, other than a few things friends had gifted me, my collection of vintage toys consisted of the vintage… (read more)
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