You Don't Know FlackThe Man. The Myth. The Podcast.

Episode 115 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about text adventures. This episode is unique in multiple ways. Not only does it feature the infamous Interactive Fiction author Robb Sherwin via Skype … but it features him for approximately two hours. What can I say? Robb and I got carried away talking about text adventures!

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Related Links:

Hangar 22 (My first full-length text adventure)
Caltrops.com – Robb Sherwin’s Game-related Website
Cryptozookeeper – Buy (or download) Robb Sherwin’s award winning game!
Inform – The language I used to write Hangar 22
Hugo – The language Robb Sherwin used to write Cryptozookeeper

The author with an explorer’s lamp at the 2011 OVGE show, displaying text adventures and interactive fiction.

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Episode 114 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about Arcade Auctions. In this episode I talk about my experiences of buying arcade games at auctions. I share some tips and tricks of the trade, including what to bring, what to look for, and what to expect. I have been attending arcade auctions for almost 20 years, and have purchased around 70 arcade games from auctions during that time.

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You Don’t Know Flack is back on track with Episode 113, which is about my personal experiences with Apple computers. The podcast spans my experiences dating back to the early 1980s to my current stash of iPods and iPhones.

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Related Links:

VirtualApple.org
KansasFest.org
CFFA for Apple II

The author with a stack of Apple computers, purchased at the Oklahoma Video Game Expo in 2010.

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Episode 112 is all about Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth. Laser Tag was a big part of my teen years and I could talk about it for days … or at least 61:08 minutes.

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Related Links:

My pictures of Photon
My YouTube Photon Videos
LightSport (The Photon/Laser Tag Documentary)
Jim Strother’s Photon Site (Where I got the Photon CD)

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Episode 111 is a lot about my old BBS, The Gas Chamber, and a little about my new forum, The Gas Chamber. It is not about real gas chambers at all.

Related Links:

TheGasChamber.robohara.com (Forum)

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In light of Sony’s recent decision to end production of 3 1/2 floppy disks, Episode 110 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about floppy disks — from the history of floppies to specific memories and stories I have regarding them.

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Related Links:

Sony Announces the End of 3.5 Floppies
YouTube: Don’t Copy That Floppy
YouTube: The Singing 1541 Floppy Drive
USB Floppy RAID
The FC5025 Floppy Controller

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In Episode 109 of You Don’t Know Flack I discuss the 1541 Ultimate, along with several other solutions for loading D64 images on real Commodore 64 computers.

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Related Links:

The Boring Beige Box Podcast
The Retroist Podcast
The Retrobits Podcast
Game Galaxy Arcade

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Episode 108 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about pc-based Multitrack Recording. This episode contains many samples from songs I’ve recorded over the past fifteen years.

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In Episode 107 of You Don’t Know Flack, I compare and contrast two recent purchases of mine: Amazon’s Kindle 2, and Acer’s Aspire 9″ Netbook.

Related Links:

Kindle 2 Screen Saver Hack
Comic Book Covers
MobiPocket.com, home of MobiCreator
Project Gutenberg

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In Episode 106 of You Don’t Know Flack, I cover all facets of the writing of my two books, Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie and Invading Spaces: A Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Arcade Games.

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