What was I close to?

OK.... last night, what was I rambling about?

Well, since I'm pretty sure none of you will find it interesting enough to vector to the people for whom it might be a surprise...

I'm trying to port the Fairlight intro to the Commodore 64. I've already gotten a scrolltext going, in a style that probably hasn't been seen before on the VCS. I've also ported a recognizable facsimile of the Fairlight theme (Druid 2: Enlightenment. Listen in MIDI format, most browsers can handle it.)

I have about 128 scanlines and about 1 kilobyte left in which I can put a logo, stationary text, or some quasi-impressive effect. But if I want to show anyone at Classic Gaming Expo '02, I have less than two weeks in which to complete it. I'd prefer to make it look at much like the C64 original as possible, but I can't seem to find a game with the intro on it in these modern archives.

Also, nobody from Fairlight has returned my e-mail. I'd prefer to have their permission, since apparently they still, like, exist, and stuff. Hence the links. And to show you how screwed-up American trademark culture is, I'm seriously considering just changing the name on the logo to "Farbright", figuring it'll be OK then. I find it rather hard to imagine the feelings of any possible Fairlight members either way, but I do know I'll be better off asking. So I'll fire off another e-mail today.

And since it is an intro screen, what game am I cracking? Why, Combat, of course. It's 2K, so I have 2K left for the intro without bankswitching. Since I have, and understand, the disassembled code,, I suppose if I had more time I would put a trainer on it.

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I'm bored but not motivated enough to clean my apartment.

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I have everything I need to cook.

EXCEPT.... for rubber gloves.

I also wanted to buy cornstarch, on the advice of my mother, as supposedly cornstarch also helps irritated skin on the hands but doesn't have any of the weird chemicals that I might be reacting to with whatever else I'm putting on it...

No such thing as information.

Every so often, I hear some talking head on TV talk about how Congress, as a unit, voted that kittens should be put in blenders in front of starving children, and then turned around and voted that Scandinavian prostitutes should be flown in to give daily blow jobs to CEOs of major corporations.

But they never tell us which bills these are, for one, so the whole argument comes down to "They're EVIL!" "No they're not!"

Next time I hear about some tax bill, I wish the cable company would display a small caption on the bottom of the screen that tells me whether my congressmen voted on it. Like how they display local temperatures on the Weather Channel.