I spent a few hours this afternoon adding some new items to my Planet of the Apes Archive. Check it out here.
Apes Archive updated
Planet of the Apes
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Aug 052018
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The rest of “MACRO Made Easy”
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Aug 042018
I’ve posted all the remaining articles in my VAX MACRO series.
And if you missed it, there’s also my other series of OpenVMS articles:
Part VI of “MACRO Made Easy” posted
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Aug 032018
I’ve posted the sixth article, “Character Witness,” in my VAX MACRO series.
Jul 252018
I’ve posted the fifth article in my VAX MACRO series.
Jul 202018
I’ve formatted and posted the first four (of twelve) articles in my VAX Professional series “MACRO Made Easy,” which is an introduction to programming in MACRO-32, the VAX assembly language (and Alpha and Itanium compiler).
I’ll post the rest of the articles over the coming few weeks.
Jun 292018
Sometimes, it pays to clean out drawers. I totally forgot I owned these. I’m not even sure where they came from. I think they were an Ebay purchase about 20 years ago that I had forgotten about.
Jun 072018
From 1986 through 1994, I wrote thirty-six articles for VAX Professional (later Digital Systems Journal), a technical journal for OpenVMS programmers and managers. My first article was published while I was still a student at Western Kentucky University. It was quite a thrill!
During that eight-year period, I wrote a dozen articles about programming in MACRO-32, the VAX assembly language. At one time, that was my preferred programming language. I still do a little MACRO-32 work, but it hasn’t been my “go to” language for many years.
The last seven articles I wrote were co-authored with Ed Heinrich. We had pitched a book idea about OpenVMS Systems Programming to DEC Press, but for various reasons, the book never happened. The project started as a day-long seminar we presented at DECUS Symposia a couple of times. Once the book fell through, we decided to turn our seminar into a series of Digital Systems Journal articles.
I’ve posted the articles here. Though they were written when the Alpha was new, the ideas presented in them are largely still useful techniques for systems programming under OpenVMS.
Writing OpenVMS Privileged Code
Jun 062018
The internet is great for providing things you didn’t know you needed until you find them. For example, this page is The Don Martin Dictionary, an alphabetical listing of all of the sound effects Don Martin used in his MAD illustrations.
Enjoy!
http://madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html
May 262018
Archive.org has scans of almost every issue of Twilight Zone, Fangoria, Famous Monsters, and Starlog, among others. The collections are not legal, yet they’ve been on Archive.org for quite a while now without ever getting removed.
Fangoria at Archive.org (347 files)
Famous Monsters of Filmland at Archive.org (221 files)
Twilight Zone magazine at Archive.org (64 files)
Starlog magazine at Archive.org (428 files)
May 162018
The best SF show you probably didn’t watch is coming to Amazon Prime on June 1. All five seasons of BABYLON 5 will be available for free streaming for Amazon Prime members!
BABYLON 5 was conceived as a “novel for television,” with its story being told over five years. It changed some over those years, but it was the show that introduced the season- and series-long story arcs that are so common now. (BUFFY did it, too, but B5 was first.)
