HyperNation, Classic Gaming Sanctuary, Triple Monitors

I was just playing a mod that won a cacoward a year or two ago for classic doom called "The Magenta Spire."

For now, until I can get a monitor that supports DVI, my laptop-only has a dual monitor. Soon it will be my main computer, or I will just have three computers (including the one laptop as one of them) on my long ass computer table for two.

Other than working now on the "Classic Gaming Sanctuary" including four classic video game-related sites including the classic doom megasite project, I am also redoing "The Ville" to be "Hyper Nation."

All of the graphics, instead of being hosted elsewhere, are now all included on the forums site! Now all I gotta do is buy a domain and route it straight here and it's done. Since there are for some reason visitors on occasion to the original "Ville" forums website, I've decided to make this and not stop until its finished, which will only take a couple days work, and just let it be.

Date Night!!! Parts One and Two

 

For our Anniversary on January 28th, 2023 we had a nice date night complete with Leon's Mexican Restaurant in Indianapolis, Barnes and Noble spends, The Flying Cupcake (Also in Indianapolis right down the road), and the AMC Movie Theatre to watch the new movie M3GAN we've wanted to see for months.

And if this wasn't enough, so that the kids didn't feel left out, we repeated the same exact date night, kids included, one week later.

Leon's Mexican Restaurant was amazing.

M3GAN was pretty good even with the kids, one of whom is terrified of horror movies easily.

For a horror movie with a PG-13 rating, I liked it.

The Flying Cupcake had large $5 cupcakes, which were also amazing.

Cherry Rounders Is Back For Now...

 

    This is my current desktop. Look in amazement at the boredom that was behind it. Anyways I'm working on bringing back CHERRY ROUNDERS. This is just an idea, but I'm putting a LOT of work into the planning of said idea. http://cherryrounders.neocities.org is the future new home of Cherry. I may buy cherryrounders.me to point in this direction.

    There are two albums and a story saga on several discs planned. The original story saga has been tossed but some parts kept story-wise, just not song-wise. The first album is a rehashed redux mix of all the original Cherry Rounders songs from 1999-2003 modernized or at least with better sound. I am completely redoing them from scratch. Since it's considered by myself in my very own genre "Nuisance Music" and I recorded in waves of songs then stopped for long periods of time, the album fittingly is called "Waves of Nuisance."

    The second of the two albums is going to be called "Window Lickin' Good" and feature only NEW songs. Both will be $12 on physical CD format from trepstar.com and on bandcamp for five bucks. 

    The story saga will be called "Life of Cherry Rounders" and feature start to finish the full origin and death of Cherry Rounders. The other two albums come in-between.

The Holidays Are Over... Ushering In 2023

    Here's a toast! May 2023 be ten times better than last year in all aspects!!

    In order to start things right I did some research today and found "The 15 Best Free VST Plugins of 2022" to install immediately, minus ones I've already had such as Dexed, and ones that were simply for effects towards the bottom when I got antsy/lazy. To accompany the release of Bellum at the end of last year, I will be working on both Tantrum and Sanctum for this one, as well as several releases afterwords if time will permit.

    On the other end of the coin, where the guitar meets the computer again, the    computer rock trilogy Machines Melodies and Mayhem will be at least planned and partially created this year. It will feature the albums "Blueprint" "Prototype" and "Structure." These will be the sequel to "Plugged" in their style and feel.

    In work news, I have gotten a promotion to the title In-Plant Support at least as a trial. I will use the funds from the raise to get ahead on bills and kick their ass instead of letting them kick my own. You know, adulting. Christmas I had planned to be pretty cool for the kids, as I set them both up with their own computer setup complete with sound systems, and an iPhone a piece. Unfortunately, within a week they got their rights removed trying to sneak things past their mom, and were lacking electronics this morning until further notice --including the X-Box. 

    Now with the help of their trusty Step dad we have set up one of the computers in our library room out in the open so that no locks can happen, and I will not have wasted all my Christmas money I earned working 7 days a week, 12 hours each day, for a few weeks. My daughter is slowly setting up a twitch channel and I'm setting her up a website for her art soon again. Currently it is http://www.aila.fun.

And as tradition will go, well, this is the first time but in the future at the beginning of every new year maybe... I'll blog a screenshot of all my desktop swappings and switch-arounds for the new year:

Currently, the top left is being copied as I took the screenshot. Nearly a terabyte in Roms/emulators will happen there, and it definitely only started today. I'll leave it going while I'm at work in a couple hours.

As my overall background mission I will be continuing work on Project Warlock 2's second full theme, as well as the buckshot software website and a lot of updates/upgrades to my own ;)

Cheers,

Jerry Lehr

The Noise Vaults, 5-8

 

This one is just an EP with a bonus track. It was originally made to accompany a blackjack game in college. You can find "No Limits Blackjack" on my website www.lehr.me

And here is the obligatory "Outtakes" album from 2000-2004

This was a rehash of "The Dybbuk: Defined Static" from 2000 with many, many 2020 tracks added to surround them and make a full 80-minute album.

This one was actually created July of 2021 but I waited a little while to release it so that it is numbered chronologically.

Enjoy! You can find them on my bandcamp or website.

Bellum, A Noisebox Promise (Again)

 Well, the time came. I finally released a NEW synth EP and some more will follow this and next year. It is called Bellum, which means war. 

Also, I'm working on a 4-mp3-rom (disc/cd/whatever) set being uploaded to the on-demand site "Trepstar.com" just for people that want something physical. Disc 1 is completely done with all the bonuses and the VB application. There are three more to make the VB applications for (homemade info/media player). 

There will also be 2-3 suprise bonus discs that I will not disclose any information about.

Noisebox, Online

 If you want to listen to my music unlimited without having to pay, you're in luck.

I have an online-ish media player I built that loads stuff from neocities and plays it on your windows computer.

It is available here!

Also...

I have freshly uploaded my very first album from 2000:

defined static by the dybbuk.

Classic Games Sanctuary... Coming Soon.......

 

There will be DOS Games in Shareware/Freeware Format...

Emulators for 36 Consoles

A Classic DOOM Megasite full of stuff to play around with

And my MODBOX for 6 games with rom hacks and mappacks.

This of course won't happen overnight, and a lot more preplanning will occur before it even starts getting filled...

Also

https://jlehr.neocities.org/best_tracks.html

I threw together my personal favorites so you don't have to sift.

Happy Birthday Bee!!

 I've been dabbling in this doom mod The Last Sanctuary. 

    The handwritten website is still under development but looking pretty cool. I've labelled it "Website 2022G" because it's #7 this year so far. What you see right now at lehr.me is the minimal approach that is going to be replaced with pen instead of text. 

    Tomorrow is my wife's birthday. We were going to get Fogo De Chao but decided to save the gift card for another time that I got. There were other gift cards such as Starbucks that she definitely loved. Other than a backpack full of stuff for our job together with Beats Studio earbuds, I got her a new furry friend she's wanted for years, a Tarantula...

    

UPDATE: We did go to Fogo De Chao, and she did end up using every gift card on sort of a "date night" spree.

John Romero Approved!!! and Co-Published!!!

John Romero's Aug 10 2022 Commercial!! 
https://twitter.com/i/status/1557351059579740161

Well guys, it's official. John Romero, co-creator of DOOM, is co-publishing our game, Project Warlock 2. I just saw the boxed set for the first one is also getting the Romero games tag, so I'm assuming that one too. I literally don't know what to say other than holy shit. 

This was his first commercial: https://twitter.com/i/status/1535293461745635329

That one sure enough freaked me out, but now check out what he's doing with us:

You can reserve your copy of the "big box" set today at Romero.com !!!

Website Redesign IV

 Yeah here we are again. I'm keeping the minimal approach but handwriting it ;)