These are stand-alone tales, needless to say, or else they'd be called two-shots (or maybe three- or more-shots). So when you're feeling shot, give these stories a shot. Go ahead - bite the bullet... :)

Night Reigns [MLP] (external site) 108k words   23 Jul 17

At this point this is my opus, a 100,000 word novel depicting the return of Princess Celestia after a decade of 'eternal' night and Nightmare Moon's solitary reign. Sunset Shimmer features rather than the mane six. I admit it gets a little rough towards the end but I'm still pleased with it. Please thumbs up at the site if you enjoy it.

You can buy a print copy here!
You can download the E-Book (MOBI) here

Good Night, Luna [MLP] (external site) 1017 words   16 Jul 16

An ancient Luna reflects back on her very long life... I wanted to write what the conversation might go like when the reaper comes to take Luna home. Please thumbs up at the site if you enjoy it.

To Choose the Light [MLP/TLK] (external site) 20k words   13 Feb 15

MLP and TLK crossover - when Nightmare Moon is banished to the Pridelands, she teams up with Scar to help him rule. But can this possibly last? Please thumbs up at the site if you enjoy it.

The First Night [MLP] (external site) 1020 words   26 Oct 13

Nine years since I posted something new... and this is MLP based. It's Celestia's thoughts on her first night after defeating Nightmare Moon - her sister Luna - and banishing her to the moon. Please thumbs up at the site if you enjoy it.

Who Am I? [TLK] 263 words

I woke up in a poetic mood the other day, and wrote this simple poem from Scar's point of view.

Warning: Scar is the bad guy from the Lion King and his actions should not be imitated by children or small animals.

The Virus 135 words

A parody of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, this one about a hacker who has lost his code and gets a virus. (grins)

Warning: A little silly and contains a lot of the original old english.

The Stupid Quote File 31k words   21 Sep 13

Just like the title says, this is an archive of stupid, silly, weird, and/or funny quotes. It was started by a friend of mine, and has been added to by me for a year or two now... Of course, he feels I've subverted the original point... ;)

Warning: contains coarse language and non-PC comments. That's why they're in here.

And here are the tales so TALL, so MASSIVE, so astronomically HUGE, and just generally large, I had to divide them up into sections! Okay, so a few aren't really THAT big, but it feels good to say it... :)

Flipper's Oceanarium

Flipper's Oceanarium was a NES (Never-Ending Story) that ran on my BBS, FlipSide, in Ottawa (Canada) for roughly 2 and a half-years. I was one of three main contributors, along with 'Phantom' and 'Feral Ferret'. The story begins with Flipper, who is a morphic dolphin, opening his own Oceanarium, and goes from there. The plot takes many odd twists, and the story is overall quite good, but impossible to summarize. The main characters, at least at the beginning, are Flipper (the morphic dolphin), Carolina Snowball (albino morphic dolphin, his girlfriend), Richard Steiner (a large, powerful man with a reality problem), and Mr. Pinrut (a mechanical man with a turnip for a head who only wants to be a gardener. He later tries to take over the universe.) It is broken up below, but each section carries on from the one immediately before it.

Thanks to the Fuzzy Platypus of Death (once known as Phantom), the entire story has been beautifully cleaned up and formatted into MS-Word documents. You can download the entire collection here:

Entire story, cleaned up and formatted in MS-Word format 542k

Warning : Contains mature content and coarse language.

You can also buy a print copy here!

Original

Ocean 1 9894 words	Ocean 2 12k words	Ocean 3 10k words	Ocean 4 9312 words	Ocean 5 9815 words	Ocean 6 8983 words	Ocean 7 9174 words
Ocean 8 4826 words	Ocean 9 13k words	Ocean 10 9197 words	Ocean 11 9076 words	Ocean 12 16k words	Ocean 13 11k words	Ocean 14 19k words

Super Space Acer

This is the instruction manual to a game I desig ned and wrote for theTI-99/4a home computer... it's mostly storyline, explaining how Bob Shumway, day-dreaming janitor, gets his chance to BE Super Space Acer for real. The second one is the sequel that I came up with, but never got very far on. I am working on a deluxe version of this game at the moment, which will eventually be for the PC.

Warning: Contains cheap science-fiction

Occasionally, I pretend to be technical and useful to the outside world. Here are some of the documents that I've created while in that kind of mood. These are currently incorrectly formatted, but this whole page is due for a rewrite. :)

TI Books

Not written by me, but a mirror of a comprehensive archive of TI-99/4A books I've been hosting since the original author took it down.

Vectrex Multicart 1315 words

Document describes how to build a dip-switch based Vectrex multicart. And since ROM distribution for the Vectrex is legal, it includes a pre-made ROM image with many games pre-loaded. :)

MAX233 Based Nokia Data Cable 871 words

Describes how to build a Nokia F-Bus Data cable with a Max233, which is simpler than the Max232 circuit.

Dreamcast 'Coders Cable' 930 words

Describes how to build a Dreamcast serial interface cable for development using a Max233 instead of the harder to get Max3222.

OnHandPC MMP and MMV Format 704 words

A brief description of the Matsucom OnHandPC MMP and MMV image formats, or as much as I needed to work out. ;)

ATX Power in a TI-99 PEB 906 words

Describes how I installed an ATX Power supply into my TI-99 Expansion Box.

Atari Jaguar GPU Boot Code Disassembly 6979 words (updated 15 Feb 09)

My attempt at documenting the Jaguar GPU boot code. This covers the decryption routine (although I know I made mistakes in there), and the MD5 hashing code contained IN the decrypted block. It also shows the difference between 2MB and 4Mb cart headers as well as the difference in the Universal "AB" type header. Also notes on JagCD boot now added.

Modern Graphics on the 9918A 6459 words (updated 18 Nov 09)

I wrote this document in response to a call for articles for an upcoming new TI magazine/newsletter. However, it appears that fell through, and I was rather proud of this, so here it is. This describes the techniques that my image converter uses, and the steps I used to get there, as well as a basic discussion of image conversion in general.

3.5" floppies on the TI-99/4A 189 words (updated 18 Nov 09)

A quick discussion on the TI mailing list made it clear this information wasn't posted anywhere centrally, everyone was just assumed to know it. So I've compiled this simple list.

Two-chip 32k console mod for the TI-99/4A 7840 words (updated 27 Jul 16)

This is a documentation of the 32k mod I did on my console. While not 16-bit, this mod is much simpler to install. (Update 7 Nov 14: fix pin from 74LS21 and verify Jameco parts - LS21 is 10c more than 2010.) (Update 27 Jul 16: pin 21 from CY7C199 goes to the 74LS00 in pic, not 74LS74.)

Skunkboard Rev 2 High Voltage Mod 12k words

This demonstrates how to remove the high voltage 9v power feed on the Revision 2 Skunkboard and replace it with the 5v supply, which increases reliability and support against over-spec power supplies on the Atari Jaguar. It's recommended for all Rev 2 boards.

Dragon's Lair on the TI-99/4A 6MB Slides

This write-up summarizes the development of Dragon's Lair for the TI home computer. It's a PDF export of the Slides document at Slides

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