Commodore Stuff

Apropos of nothing, I just remembered the AGA Amigas can read/write double-density MS-DOS disks. Around 1994-95 I used to download Amiga demos on my dad's PC (at 14.4k baud), whack the disk into my A1200 and copy them to the hard drive. #RetroComputing

It's been raining nonstop all weekend so the cats are having playtime indoors. I suspect this is going to spill over into violence. #Caturday

Very much enjoyed The Social Reckoning.

Here's Douglas Adams introducing us to the idea of AI agents in 1990 in the (linear non-interactive) TV programme Hyperland, ably assisted by Tom Baker. Incredible. youtu.be/5nOXGYxHVFI?...

The Software Projects ad photo taken outside the Liverpool ABC in 1984. I’ve circled myself in the crop. Everyone in the photo was a member of the SP staff, except Miner Willy and the usher character. And the photographer. Everyone else. #RetroGaming #Liverpool #SoftwareProjects

Things have taken a bleak turn for Pac-Man.

New iMac just dropped. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39784410...

What's this, a 90s UK video game show parody that took 4.5 months of solid editing? youtu.be/mAz3YmZ6aQg?...

32 years ago today, we held the launch party for DOOM II at the Limelight in NYC, a former church. Happy birthday to DOOM II, but also, happy birthday to the Super Shotgun, the be-all and end-all of many a monster.

Nice work, eBay. Nailed it. *Hits unsubscribe*

Choose your fighter.

Infocom used their ZIL language, a derivative of LISP, to program their text adventures. #RetroGaming

Whoever made this should do TRON next. Imagine the light-cycles in first person perspective! #Vectrex #Tron

Intriguing. I was living just outside the M25 so doubt this would have reached me, unfortunately (especially with the North Downs in the way).

Over an hour of Cray history from the always entertaining @retrobytes.bsky.social Fill your boots! #RetroComputing youtu.be/qSgnDD83m-U?...

Holograms were the future we wanted. AI was the future we got. I want a refund.

We need a new database schema at work for our reporting tables. Our schemas are always 3 letters so I suggested BUM - Business Unit Metrics - and then our stored procedures will contain 'INSERT INTO BUM. ...' And that's why I'm not allowed to make decisions at work.

The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris. #RetroGaming thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-...

Thought I would struggle to think of 9 but once you start they just keep coming. Disappointed Millennium 2.2 wasn't there.

"Six years ago, this was the site of a booming NFT market. Today it's an AI startup losing $1 billion per week. And a year from now, it will hopefully host a ritual sacrifice of techbros to the Roman God Pluto as punishment for their greed." "For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods." #satire

OK, so uncle Clive didn't really "market the first personal computer", but nonetheless this is wonderful. #Sinclair #ZX80

Automatic conversion to c64 bitmap, pretty good for an unedited photo. Decided to whip a little something together.

Bit of Wing Commander trivia: Whenever the player quit the game back to DOS an error message appeared. They couldn't find the cause in time, and it didn't negatively affect the game, so they edited the error message to say 'Thank you for playing Wing Commander!' #RetroGaming

After meeting an old man in the desert, I've decided to start listening to the voices in my head, and I want to vaporise two million people. Thanks to the power of the #ZX81, I can now do that, with 3D Star Raid, which is definitely not #StarWars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1A...

I never ever had a car boot treasure find before and felt like that was a 2000s thing, never to be lived by me. BUT I found an incredible horde of Atari 2600 games for £30 Amazing stuff (More photos in replies)

[1984] Saturday Superstore - Sarah Greene is joined by some young games experts - Dominic, Duncan and Cassie - to help her undertake a "Special Superstore Software Check-Out." Which of the computer games in the so-called Top Ten do they think is the best?

Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea for a game...

Global weather reports from an array of 100 ZX81s. 😎 #ZX81

It's only been a few days since the super impressive #Wolfenstein 3D #homebrew port landed on the #C64 But its creator, "Kweepa" is already working on another demake of an FPS classic of the 90s #Quake A game I never thought I'd see attempted on #Commodore64 hardware #retrogaming #gaming #gamedev

I decided to build something for about 50 people on the planet, maybe less... www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.ph... It's a chess variant game on the C128 in GEOS. Yes. You read that right. And if you are one of ~10 people that has a SuperCPU 128? It'll be about 10x a better engine (2mhz vs 20mhz).

This is very cool. Migraine inducing but cool. Nicely explained, too. #ASCII youtu.be/3YtygAx_C6A

Since y'all liked my floppy disk so much, here's one rotated the other way. I've added some subtle gradient shading, didn't want to overdo it so much it loses its "flat" look but I think it looks nice. #retrocomputing #pixelart #floppydisk

Look, if you want a cheaper TAC 2 joystick, you simply need to invent a time machine and buy one in 1989. Don't forget to include your cheque or postal order. #C64

Pretty sure I spotted an Amiga 500 in the Red Dwarf episode 'Holoship' last night (BBC2, 10pm). And they've definitely had a C64 on another episode. #RedDwarf #Commodore

'Nostalgia has traditionally depended on something being gone. You missed the TV show because it was no longer broadcast. Your favourite toy broke...The band split up. The past mattered because you couldn’t go back to it, but now you can – easily.' #Retro theconversation.com/now-that-its...

If you 🩵 the Amiga - Please give me a quick follow - Thank you for your support! 👍 #Commodore #Amiga #AmigaReposts

It's another hot sunny day, so I'm indoors playing Gods. #RetroGaming

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

I've been guilty of watching #C64 demos without giving much thought to how much ingenuity / genius is needed to achieve some of the effects. This is a fantastic explanation of Rodents in the Attic by the person who coded it. youtu.be/uZ1atMUOUMU

Commodore HDMI Converter Brings 720p Output to Classic Systems #Commodore64 #Commodore128 #VIC20 #Commodore #HDMI #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #PCBDesign theoasisbbs.com/commodore-hd...