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Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

It's coming soon! It's such a good, challenging, "just one more go" game and really proud to have played a role in creating the box artwork by hand for @garypinkett.bsky.social 's SPACE PIZZA released by @atomicwindmill.com soon for ZX Spectrum Next.

Join us in the pub (or online) on Monday 21st to chat with Mark about how he added two player duels to the original Elite. We will have a Beeb there so you can test your flying skills against others! rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/ind...

It was a super event, great to see many working Domesday systems, meet and hear from those involved in the original project and those working to preserve it and keep it alive and accessible. I found the article I contributed while at www.stowford.devon.sch.uk and also sneaked out my Domesday clock.

REMINDER: Domesday At 40 event at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History is *this Saturday*! Hope to see you there...

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

This takes me back! Recording of when I was on the TV show Bad Influence, I was 22 at the time. Includes footage of the original Total Wormage, which was the version of the game I entered into the Amiga Format competition and later showed Team17. youtu.be/3xmIUPStiuU?...

I’m in a game! Well a very early demonstration of one I’ll be in anyway. Saki Endo’s Ghost House will be a fun arcade style score attack game borrowing liberally from the classics, endlessly playable with secrets and scoring techniques, boss fights and the cheesiest story this side of Cheddar Gorge.

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

Congratulations on reaching this well-deserved milestone!

Always good receive some appreciation in our comments. We're 2 years old today, and it would only take 3 more viewers to subscribe to hit 500 subscribers to the channel. I wonder if we can do it today and help spread the word via the grass roots as I say here. Sub here: youtube.com/@sakiendosru...

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

It seems fortuitous that today being 7/11 that my #randomgamesatuday is Taito's fun little Nintendo DS game Minna no Conbini. Check out my review from a couple of years ago for how it stacks up... :)

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

A little more Acorn action today while on a work trip to the other place after yesterday’s great visit to @retrocollective.co.uk.

Great first visit to The Cave. Meant to go for some time. Hermann Hauser’s visit finally got me there. I was really impressed with the Cave, its friendly team and Hermann gave an entertaining and engaging talk and was a delight to talk to. How tickled he was with my mini Beeb models made my day. ☺️

‘Blink twice if you think Zuckerburg’s an arseh*le’ Here’s what happened when, thanks to Meta’s lawyers, Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams had to sit in silence at @hayfestival.bsky.social with @superwuster.bsky.social & @carolecadwalla.bsky.social (watch to the end for Tim’s verdict) 🧵⤵️

AI can get bent. No one will hire me as I’m an “inexperienced” artist. so I’ll have to make my own opportunities making my own game. Some concept artwork for the opening scenes of Saki Endo’s Ghost House.

So it'll be the 50th episode of the Rubbish Heap. I have been toying for quite a long time now transforming the Rubbish Heap into print, no big fonts, or blown up screenshots, no coffee table required. A hand drawn punk-zine vibe, raw direct reviews, info from Japan translated by myself. Thoughts?

Acorn youtuber, @tnmoc.bsky.social volunteer and all-round good egg Colin Hoad has made a great video giving a run down of last weekend's Econet LAN Party at the National Museum of Computing. A lot went down in Milton Keynes!

To mark the inaugural World Bring Your Diorama to Work Day and keep the @tnmoc.bsky.social Econet LAN Party spirit going…

Having a great old time meeting friends and hacking on old Acorns at ABUG south. Representing my adopted homeland with an @adriansdigitalbasement.com t-shirt :)

Off on a work trip for a few days, but thanks to @danrolfe.bsky.social I can still bring a Beeb with me 😁

And yes, a pro tip from the lads dredging the Chesterfield Canal in 1978: if you find a chain at the bottom of a canal, under no circumstances should you keep pulling it to see what's on the other end

RIP Stanley Baxter. This BBC Micro advert was a classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdx...

What's that knocking at the door? Why, it's the first of the Advent of Beeb Games videos! youtu.be/jWa0oNtmBc4

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business" It's £10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Are you a budding fixer-upper of vintage computers? @tnmoc.bsky.social are running a "Mac & Cheese (wedge) Fixathon" on 11th & 12th October, and we're looking for fixers! The focus will be Apple Macintoshes and Acorn cheese wedge units. Sign up link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mac-and-ch...

Mmm. In future nobody will know how to code but we’ll need people to look for errors in highly plausible but incorrect code… @colinhoad.com www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/g...

Happy 40th birthday to the Commodore Amiga! @10marc.bsky.social

A short video on what I got up to over the weekend! #econet youtu.be/0qQtm-lGXM4

Roguecraft is a retro-inspired, turn-based roguelike. Explore procedurally generated dungeons laden with mysterious potions, a myriad of demented denziens, and scary chickens. Grab the physical Amiga version ASAP! www.thalamus.shop/product/rogu...

Raspberry pi Amiga 500 and BBC Bs (other cool 😎 people have these too) with my unique 1084s and Cub monitors and mission-creep remastered Screen Gems box.

PhD student sends me this. Ouch.

BBC Micro Galaforce running on the tiniest BBC Micro and monitor I've ever seen! For reference, that's an Amiga mouse to the left and to the right is the corner of a full-size BBC Micro. I saw this at the recent 'ABug North' event in Manchester.