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Some beautiful shots of the recent Lunar eclipse 10/27/2004 in Seattle. Shot with a Russian 500mm lens, M42 adapter, Canon Digital Rebel.
(Previous pictures of the week/month/year are here)
| 07/05/2007 | The CyberRoach Blog is now up and running, enjoy! |
| 03/28/2006 | Various pictures from the SAKURA-CON in Seattle, check out Magazine #23 |
| 01/27/2005 | Sam's stand-up comedy debut :) |
| 12/17/2004 | HALO 2 related pictures from my recent world trip: some flyer scans then some sales displays (all from Japan) and even a pic from Amsterdam. |
| 11/09/2004 | HALO 2 launch pictures: EMP party and Redmond midnight launch... |
| 11/07/2004 | Here are some pictures from this year's Seattle Classic Gaming Weekend, including the Seattle Atari Championships! |
| 11/06/2004 | A while ago PBS stopped by Lee's place and shot a lot of footage for their special "The Videogame Revolution", a 2h show broadcasted nationally during the fall fundraiser. Here are some pictures (issue #19). |
| 10/28/2004 | Added some shots of the Lunar eclipse, see top of the page or here (if they are no longer at the top of the page). |
| 08/29/2004 | A week ago I was at the 2004 CGE in San Jose - the must-see annual event for classic videogame enthusiasts, here are a ton of pictures and a report will appear soon! Joe, John and Sean and countless others once again put on an awesome show with Steve Wozniak being the highlight. Make sure to visit CGE 2005 in Burlingame! |
| 08/28/2004 | Long time, no update :) Sorry, I
have been way too busy with a new job, a new love and other things... Here is version 3.00 of the Madeira Wine Guide! |
| 11/05/2003 | Well, today I went with some buddies to see 'The Matrix - Revolutions' and it is quite remarkable how much the premise of these movies has changed. While the original Matrix movie was all about (cyber-) spirituality and salvation the third movie is almost a pure action thrill ride and nothing more. Kind of disappointing! Don't get me wrong - I liked it! I wanted to see *one* thing in Matrix Revolutions - ever since the second part I longed to see these badass-looking mech-type walker-thingies with the Gatling-guns in action. And boy was there ever! Yeah it's kind of the cargo loader from 'Aliens' on steroids and there is dozens of them - nice! And the rest of the movie? Well... I know I will make heavy use of the chapter-forward button on my remote once Revolutions is out on DVD :) |
| 10/30/2003 | For the last few days my DSL
speed has been way down :( Turns out one of the modem cards @ Verizon had
gone bad. 'Junior' of ISOMEDIA (great company) and the Verizon guys fixed it
within 24h I brought it up - nice! Also added some more games in the Virtual LaserActive Museum! |
| 10/26/2003 | Thanks to Al for this fantastic LaserActive Promo Brochure in the US Misc section of the Virtual LaserActive Museum! Check it out! |
| 10/19/2003 | New picture of the week (see blue-haired girls above), also a major update is in the works, stay tuned. |
| 10/06/2003 | I'll try to post a 'picture of the week' in the spot above in weekly (duh!) intervals :) |
| 10/05/2003 | I spent the last month in Europe, here are some pictures from the IAA auto show in Frankfurt, Germany - awesome! |
| 09/06/2003 | Long overdue: pictures from CGE'2K3, text will show up in about two to three weeks, sorry, too busy :( |
| 07/16/2003 | Hey! I am trying to make up for months of website-neglect! Here is the new Madeira Vintage list from Reidar! Check it out in the Madeira Wine Guide! |
| 07/15/2003 | And another update to the Madeira Wine Guide, added one new chapter and put another chapter back on-line. |
| 07/13/2003 | Long time, no update! :) Well, here is a new version of the Madeira Wine Guide! |
| 04/04/2003 | Here is the review for Xenosaga for the PS2. Great game!!! |
| 03/25/2003 | Well, the crazyness of Slashdot is subsiding, check this out to get an idea of how crazy it really was! First there was a little bump thanks to AtariAge and then I got 25% of my annual hits in one weekend thanks to Slashdot! :) Thanks goes to Cmdr Taco! |
| 03/22/2003 | Check out my review for Robot Arena Design&Destroy - a great low-budget title that brings robotic combat to your PC! |
| 03/22/2003 | I knew it would happen one of these days... this morning I got slashdotted! :) Anyway, I came into the basement and the webserver (an old P-160 overclocked to 180) sounded like a jet on take-off. My first thought was: I'd either been hacked or I'd been slashdotted. So I first checked on Slashdot and sure enough there it was! Pretty cool! |
| 03/17/2003 | A long Seattle Classic Gaming Weekend finished Sunday evening - what a blast! Read all about it right here! |
| 03/10/2003 | Expect a detailed review of Robot Arena - Design & Destroy in about 10 days, this game is pretty darn good! If you like robots this one is for you! Head over to the robots section and check out the press release! |
| 02/06/2003 | Some pretty big updates to the Madeira Wine Guide. Godspeed to the Columbia crew :( Seems to me like NASA could use a few Billion Dollars much better than a few wealthy percent benefiting from tax-cut favoritism. |
| 12/28/2002 | www.cyberroach.com was mentioned in the November issue of Man!ac Magazine, the leading German videogame publication. All the pictures in the article about the CGE in Las Vegas were from this website - cool! Also mentioned: AtariAge and ResQsoft! The box in the lower left says: "Addresses for Fans - where you can get some of the new CGE releases. Despite the limited production numbers of new cartridges for classic systems you have a real chance to still get some of these titles outside of internet auctions. Just check out the webpages of AtariAge or ResQsoft to acquire some future collectibles. More information about the CGE can be found at www.cyberroach.com - H.R. the guy behind that site also provided the pictures shown on this page." (scanned and posted w/ permission) |
| 12/27/2002 | Thanks to Eric we have another
completed issue of ANALOG
magazine, it's #22, check it out! Thanks Eric!!! Also: a new chapter was added to the Madeira Wine Guide - the 1795 Mystery! |
| 12/20/2002 | Yup, all better now with four
name servers :) Also some small updates in the Madeira Wine guide... |
| 12/18/2002 | You may have noticed that my name servers (Granite Canyon) time out every evening PST, I guess GC is just too darn busy. I've started adding 3rd and 4th name servers and expect this problem to be fixed within the next 72 hours. |
| 12/17/2002 | Early Christmas for me! Got a
really cool Dreamcast retail kiosk, some pictures are
here and here!
These things are built like tanks, despite the crappy packing job of the
sender and despite UPS being unable to distinguish between top and bottom
(hello, arrow on box, duh!) the parts arrived in decent shape and cleaned up
nicely. Also a very minor update in the combat robots section on Roto-Reutter :) |
| 12/15/2002 | Some small corrections to the Online Madeira Wine Guide - now in version 2.02. Also added some information about Ward Shrake's fantastic Bally Astrocade and Arcadia 2001 multi-carts to CyberRoach magazine #12! These cool items are available directly from Ward himself but he only has a few left!!! And finally: I added some pictures of my pet roaches Sunny & Cher. |
| 12/10/2002 | Version 2.01 of the Online Madeira Wine Guide is now up - this is the definitive Internet resource for Madeira Wine connoisseurs! |
| 12/09/2002 | Added some old Raven pictures in the Xbox section... |
| 11/20/2002 | Here are some pictures from the Xbox Live launch in Redmond: green water, Xbox cookies and the Xbox laser was back as well. Also added some pictures showing some nice Xbox setups from recent SAP-related conferences... |
| 11/15/2002 | Wow, so much to tell you
about... First: my old ISP decided to drop all their DSL customers and after 2 years of flawless service they suddenly went in to "we don't give a rat's ass"-mode and as a result this webpage has been down for almost 2 weeks - crap! Thanks to the awesome folks at Isomedia I'm now up and running again! Speed should also be much better now (768 versus 384)! Second: today Xbox Live went live :) Well, you know I'm a big Xbox-nut to begin with but Xbox Live is just freaking awesome! MechAssault rocks, Ghost Recon kicks ass, MotoGP is a total speed rush and NFL Fever 2003 is just unbelievable! Add Defender (great remake of one of my favorite classic games), Splinter Cell (wow!!!), Shenmue II (nice!), ToeJam and Earl 3 (funky!) and Dr. Muto (very bizarre mad scientist setting - I love it!). Wow, too many good games! Must finish them all! I'm still working on Dead To Rights and Blinx and my GF and I finally finished up Morrowind (very, very good PC-style RPG, one of the best games I've ever played!) and I already have all these other games waiting! Maybe I should just take a month off from work and spend it in front of my Xbox :) Third: ever since the hard drive crash two months ago I've been trying to come up with a good backup solution and I finally shelled out some bucks and bought the awesome Promise SX4000 RAID 5 controller and a bunch of disks. Yeah baby, yeah! Together with a secondary file server I now have around one terabyte of disk space and an additional off-line backup for all the really important stuff (like this website). How would Duke Nukem say it? "Ahhh! Much better..." |
| 11/02/2002 | Big HALO LAN party at Pat's house! Also 7-player Death Tank (Saturn), Rez and Ikaruga (both DC) - too much gaming goodness! Now if only the Phinney PhragPhest would return... |
| 10/14/2002 | Added the Pac-PC1 information to the LaserActive section... |
| 08/25/2002 | Pages 4 and 5 of the CGE report are now online, including the auction listing. |
| 08/18/2002 | A few more pages of the CGE report are ready - enjoy! |
| 08/16/2002 | Here is the first part of the trip report from the recent CGE 2002 in Las Vegas, it's going to be work in progress for a few days :) |
| 08/12/2002 | Tonight was the Seattle Suckfest... eh Gamefest. The event sucked but playing Xbox on the giant Seahawks stadium was cool! |
| 07/22/2002 | The da Vinci Days 2002 in Corvallis, OR had tons of robots, here are some pictures. |
| 07/18/2002 | Finally took some pictures of the Xbox Mini - very cool stuff! |
| 07/03/2002 | Got some very cool Xbox promo stuff from Japan, check it out! |
| 06/28/2002 | Long time, no update :) Here are some pictures from my Battlebot (in its very early stages), click on Roto-Reutter in the left pane. |
| 03/24/2002 | Here is the report from last weekends NWCGE Meeting. |
| 03/19/2002 | My brother wrote up a very detailed guide about Madeira Wine - the preliminary version is here! |
| 03/18/2002 | Thanks to Ron we have another ANALOG done! This time it's #30, check it out! |
| 01/15/2002 | Thanks to Dylan for some extra robot pics and videos! |
| 01/13/2002 | Here are some robot pics from the 2002 Rustycon |
| 01/12/2002 | Added some pics of myself, added Time Gal and Angel Mate in the LaserActive section... |
| 12/31/2001 | Happy New Year! Guten Rutsch!!! |
| 12/23/2001 | Check out this Limited Edition Xbox - way cool! |
| 12/21/2001 | The four missing pages of the LaserActive CLD-A100 Service Manual are now on-line. |
| 12/01/2001 | Did you know that the Vectrex videogame starred in the movie "Android"? Check it out... |
| 11/26/2001 | Added a description on how to replace the dead lead batteries in Portable Macintosh 5120 or 5126 models. |
| 10/28/2001 | And another ANALOG issue is done! This time it's #4, check it out! |
| 10/22/2001 | Lots of progress with the Digital ANALOG Project! Thanks to Eric who finished #21 and Ron who is almost done with #30! |
| 10/19/2001 | Hmm... look at this giant Xbox 18-wheeler truck that I spotted near Redmond Town Center mall today, nice! |
| 10/12/2001 | LaserActive CLD-A100 Service Manual is done - 111 Megs! Please be gentle :) |
| 10/10/2001 | The 2nd part of the LaserActive CLD-A100 Service Manual is now on-line. |
| 10/08/2001 | A lot has happened in the last four weeks... I hope that despite all the anger, hurt and frustration people realize that bombs never solve anything! Anyway, here is the first part of the LaserActive CLD-A100 Service Manual. Also mark your calendar for November 15th, the US release date of the Xbox. If you are not a believer yet: on 11/15 find somebody with an Xbox, play HALO for 30 mins and then buy one yourself :) |
| 09/06/2001 | Instead of finishing the CGE2K1 report I put up some hilarious Atari MTV commercials. What a riot, check them out! |
| 08/18/2001 | Here is the report from the CGE2K1, I know you've been waiting for it, please be patient it's still a work in progress :) |
| 08/07/2001 | I'm in the middle of re-working the LaserActive section - check it out! |
| 08/06/2001 | Guess what I'd like to drive to work? This kick-ass Xbox Monster Truck! |
| 07/30/2001 | Also thanks to Ron, there is some progress with ANALOG issue #30... |
| 07/24/2001 | Thanks to Ron a lot of typos in the Digital ANALOG Project section got swatted! |
| 07/22/2001 | Started to switch the LaserActive section over to a new layout - please let me know what you think! |
| 07/01/2001 | Added a sample video of the LaserActive title Zapping TV Satsui. |
| 06/12/2001 | Here is the manual for the CLD-A100 LaserActive player! |
| 05/31/2001 | Thanks to Vince I was able to add some nice scans of Japanese discs in the LaserActive section! |
| 05/14/2001 | Quite a few additions to the Digital ANALOG Project. Thanks to Eric and Daniel! |
| 04/18/2001 | Here are some pictures from the Seattle Earthquake - pretty cool stuff! |
| 04/09/2001 | Added some miscellaneous photos... |
| 04/08/2001 | Another brilliant commercial: Atari The Fly! Check it out here! |
| 04/07/2001 | Added the awesome 7up Pac-Man commercial in the misc. Atari section - check it out! |
| 03/30/2001 | Tons of new LaserActive pictures, including large pics of the 3D Goggles! |
| 03/24/2001 | Scanned the Sears Telegames (Atari 2600) manual, thanks to Lee. The scans turned out really well. |
| 03/23/2001 | Added yet more pictures to the NWCGE Meeting thanks to Steve! Check it out here . |
| 03/13/2001 | Added detailed information about the C7010 and C7420 in the Videopac section, go to Videopac Hardware. |
| 03/06/2001 | More pictures and text in the LaserActive section! |
| 03/05/2001 | All done now: Atari 2600 Championship and NWCGE Meeting pics and reports are here . |
| 03/01/2001 | Added some more pictures from the recent classic gaming events in Seattle - the texts will follow this weekend! |
| 02/28/2001 | Hefty earthquake in Seattle today - 6.8! I was at work, checked if www.cyberroach.com was still running and figured 'web server is up - the damage can't be that bad' :) |
| 02/25/2001 | Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend is over - what a blast! Check out some preliminary photos in the magazine section! |
| 02/16/2001 | Here is a perfect example of how NOT to deal with me on Ebay :) |
| 02/09/2001 | If you live in the Pacific Northwest you owe it to yourself to visit Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend February 24th and 25th! |
| 02/03/2001 | Added screen shots and attract video for Ghost Rush! and Hi-Roller Battle in the LaserActive section. |
| 02/02/2001 | Time for the Blue Chicago Blues screen shots and attract video in the LaserActive section. |
| 01/29/2001 | More changes in the LaserActive section, added screen shots for Quiz Econosaurus and side(s) information for most discs. |
| 01/25/2001 | More attract videos in the LaserActive section, also added many screen shots! |
| 01/24/2001 | Added the attract video for Hyperion in the LaserActive section. |
| 01/17/2001 | Added screen shots for Hyperion and Road Prosecutor in the LaserActive section, also the attract video for Road Prosecutor (nice one!). |
| 01/11/2001 | Three more videos in the Jaguar section... |
| 01/09/2001 | Added two new Jaguar videos: Nerf Max Force and Creature Shock, check them out here. |
| 01/05/2001 | More stuff in the Jaguar CD section - check out the Deathwatch page. |
| 01/04/2001 | Added various bits and pieces to the Jaguar CD section - check out the Thea Realm Fighters page. |
| 12/31/2000 | Happy New Year to everybody! Multiple updates in the LaserActive and Videopac sections. |
| 12/23/2000 | Finally!
GTE/Verizon managed to get the upgraded DSL into place. Richard seems to
be the only knowledgeable guy around there - thanks dude! I still need to
set up the DNS entries so cyberroach.com points to this box - I'll do that
over Christmas. Since 12/23/2000 this website is no longer hosted by my former ISP/WSP but it is running out of my basement :) It took a while to get everything set up but it was worth it. Hopefully there won't be any disk space problems anymore - I now have a little over 100 Gigs of total disk capacity. For more technical details see link on the left. Please notify me (remove SPAM-block!) of any errors, broken links, misspelled words etc. that you may encounter - thanks! As you can see the new design is much simpler and less colorful (yes, I know what you thought of the old color scheme!), this is mainly for ergonomic and bandwidth reasons. I'd rather save bandwidth on the frequently visited top-level pages and then waste it further down :) |
| 12/03/2000 | More stuff in the Videopac section - check it out! |
| 11/27/2000 | Some small additions to the Jaguar CD section and I added a few images that I swiped from Ebay a while ago to the LaserActive section. |
| 11/26/2000 | Check out the Jaguar CD section - interesting addition under unreleased games: Caves Of Fear! |
| 11/25/2000 | New stuff in the Videopac section - check it out! |
| 11/23/2000 | Added a ton of stuff to the Jaguar CD section. The old Jaguar CD project news are still available here. |
| 11/19/2000 | Reworked the Roaches section, added some new cartoons. |
| 11/16/2000 | Plenty of minor updates but still no upgraded DSL line... :( :( :( |
| 11/02/2000 | Ah well, the upgraded DSL line is still not here... :( |
| 10/21/2000 | Started work on the site re-design, the upgraded DSL line is slated for this week! |
| 10/01/2000 | As you may have noticed the XBOX page has been removed a while ago. For the latest on XBOX please go to MSXbox - the ultimate XBOX fan-site! |
| 08/13/2000 | It's been in the works for a while: Magazine #10 reports from the CGE2K! Check out the best Las Vegas Classic Gaming Expo report for a third year in a row! |
| 08/08/2000 | I'm experiencing disk space problems - parts of the site will be temporarily unavailable! |
| 06/05/2000 | Update on the Jag CD Project ... |
| 06/02/2000 | Minor update to the M page. |
| 05/31/2000 | Finished Magazine #9 - Faran Thomason interview! Lots of info about unreleased Atari Jaguar titles! |
| 04/04/2000 | Update on the Jag CD Project ... |
| 03/28/2000 | Changed the layout of the X-Box news section - it's now easier to read. |
| 03/10/2000 | Added the X-Box news section - this thing is going to rock! |
| 03/05/2000 | General bug and typo removal session :) Also added some LaserActive items to my want and trade lists. |
| 02/25/2000 | Updated my want and trade lists... |
| 02/23/2000 | Finished the update on the Jag CD Project. |
| 02/07/2000 | Finished Magazine #8 about the NWCGE meeting - check it out. |
| 02/02/2000 | Update on the Jag CD Project ... |
| 02/01/2000 | Kudos to Eric Petrich! He archived A.N.A.L.O.G. #16 and also sparked an overhaul of the A.N.A.L.O.G. section, cool stuff Eric!!! |
| 01/23/2000 | Yeah, much Y2K-hype about nothing... updated some things on the Jag CD Project page. Try to attend the NWGCE meeting if you can - it will be awesome! |
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