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   Christian Jacob to All   
   Millie and Molly   
   05 Apr 20 22:59:14   
   
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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TID: hpt/w32-wc 1.3.0-cur 07-02-03   
   Hey y'all :)   
      
   I don't know what you guys are doing right now. I however - although still   
   trying to get at least 30 hours of work for my company done per week - have   
   plenty of time to kill with house keeping and family-business.   
      
   I am used to spending a lot of time with my little daughter (almost 4 y/o), but   
    for the last couple of weeks, that amount of time increased A LOT. Not only   
   because child care facilities have been closed three weeks ago, but also   
   because my wife wouldn't be able to handle her on her own so that I can still   
   be working as much as I was used to before.   
      
   Well... and we all have hobbies. Sort of. Don't we?   
      
   When I don't work on building a 1:8 model of a Pontiac Firebird Trans-AM (and   
   you know what model I am talking about, do you?), I am focussed on my little   
   collection of C64s here. Recently I received a Commodore 1084P color monitor   
   which the owner told me was still working fine. Well... it is not. At. All.   
   Except for the Power LED and a mean noise probably coming from a broken flyback   
    transformer.   
      
   I have been successful in disassembling the whole thing and ordered a   
   replacement part. Wish me luck in cleaning up the mess I found in the case and   
   re-assembling it. ;-)   
      
   Also, in this time, I found out that my daughter actually loves the C64. I was   
   looking for games that she could actually play with me together and found out   
   about Millie and Molly (https://carletonhandley.itch.io/millie-and-molly). It   
   is a beautiful puzzle game that - at least for the introductory levels worked   
   pretty well for my little daugher. Even though she has a hard time using the   
   Competition Pro, this game allows for rewinding almost endlessly so that you   
   can do mistakes and don't have to start completely over and there's no   
   timelimit... even the "monsters" in the first couple of levels are actually   
   teddies that you simple sort of "collect".   
      
   Unfortunately, these levels only exist so that you can get used to the game   
   mechanics. Once you're done learning, it gets pretty complicated really fast.   
      
   Does anyone of you know a game like this but with simple levels... and much of   
   them?   
      
      
   Greetings,   
   Christian   
      
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