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    From the Archives: College Application Essay

    My high school English teacher assigned us to write a college application essay in anticipation of colleges requiring one.  Below is mine. 

    I did use it for my college applications.

    It is not an easy task to summarize my 17 years on this planet within a double
    spaced, single sheet of paper.  There are many ways I could try [...]

    From the Archives: DDLSTARS

    Back in the day, I wrote a few intros/demos. Nothing all that spectacular.

    Dosbox allows them to still run on modern computers. It’s pretty fantastic. There was an issue with audio in Dosbox, so the video was muted.

    Here is DDLSTARS:

    From the Archives: Poetry

    One of my great literary pieces, circa 1996:

    [druggy]

    i could be a cocaine junky
    in need of my fix
    [...]

    From the Archives: TI-85 Password Protection

    When I was in high school, the TI-85 was the shit. It was a great calculator, and someone had figured out how to install a loader that would allow you to run arbitrary native programs using some fancy hacking and installing programs into the “Custom” menu. The loader was called “ZShell.”

    The TI-85 had [...]

    From the Archives: Screen Capture in DOS

    I was moving some files into Dropbox for archiving and was poking through some files and found my old screen dump program in Turbo Pascal. It dumps a raw $10 VGA mode file.

    BTW, if you haven’t tried out dropbox, do so. It’s pretty fantastic. Use this link and I will get some [...]