tim lindner's personal blog

For the last half week I've been under the weather. So to speak. My daughter brought home a cold and I got it bad. Just today, I am starting to feel good again. I'm sure my co-workers will appreciate that on Monday.

I had a laugh today. I took my younger daughter to the park today. They have a tire swing there. Megan really like to ride it. When we first got there I pushed Megan a little, she likes to go fast. Then I sat down…

SDLMESS inherited it's keyboard handling code from mainline MESS. Mainline MESS uses the Scroll Lock key to toggle between User Interface modes. On the Mac, SDLMESS has a conditional compile to use the Insert key instead of the other key. This worked well before the…

When I hold down the shift and press the eject key on my Macintosh keyboard I notice the DVD tray slides out at a tenth of the speed it usually does.

My first computer, the Color Computer, came with a variety of keyboard commonly called a chicklet keyboard. The name comes from the shape of the individual keys. I always liked the keyboard. When I recived my CoCo 3 I shipped off my old CoCo to…