Through the Interface

Floppy Friday #52 (ven., 22 oct. 2021)
In this week’s episode we once again play some more games on a Commodore 64 that we find on random floppies. We start with a game I remembered we hadn’t had time to try last week, which turned out to be International Karate. As the directory listing stated “Seite A” (“Side A” in German), I decided to flip the floppy and see what was on Side B. Well, it had some real crackers (mostly cracked crackers, in fact) such as Enduro Racer, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Yie Ar Kung-Fu II and Tetris. A fun episode! Here’s the cover art for...
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Forge and digital twins at Autodesk University 2021 (Thu, 21 Oct 2021)
I’ve finally found the time to view the main information from the recent Autodesk University event, and thought it worth highlighting what I consider to be some of the “big ticket” items, especially from my own – somewhat Forge- and digital twin-centric – perspective. First-up, Forge was everywhere in the keynotes. If it wasn’t previously clear that Autodesk is serious about becoming a platform company, it should be from the messaging at this AU. On a side note, there are a number of internal organisational changes that have happened/are happening at Autodesk to accelerate this shift, so I’m currently...
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