Kari (rhymes with atari)

🥈 The Silver Play Button has landed! Two weeks after hitting 100K subscribers (and one very eaten cake later 🎂), it's finally here. Lighter and shinier than I expected! 100,000 of you wanting to watch me code and try to fix old tech still doesn't feel real. Thank you all so much 💿

Who loves physical media and who grew up with a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis? 🎮 ... Got my hands on a pre-release copy of URB-X WARRIORS: The Lost City (16-Bit Edition), live now on Kickstarter. @brazengameplay.bsky.social sent me a custom signed cart with MY NAME on the title screen 🥹 video below!

Who else loves new tools?🙋 New toy in the workshop 👀 Just set up the Carvera Air CNC, big thanks to Makera! Can't wait to put it through its paces on some upcoming builds ... What do you think I should make/or fix with this?🛠️ Love to hear your ideas down below👇 #CarveraAir #CNC #ad

Coding like it's the 90s🎉 ... What was the first programming language you ever learned? ... Had great fun learning #TurboPascal and coding my very own #Terminator2 PIN program that you can see in my very latest YouTube video, link below (cont...)

youtu.be/yDItCLecx3k Breaking the movie down frame by frame I think I got most of the program worked out. But would love to compare with the original prop, if still around, so if anyone knows which studio made it, I would love to know (maybe @asavage.bsky.social you can help :) @tested.com

What's everyone's favourite sci-fi movie?🛸 ... 🚨*NEW* YouTube video *JUST DROPPED* where I recreate through some detective🕵️ work the #Terminator2 "EASY MONEY" ATM scene from scratch, in Turbo Pascal 7, on a real 1989 #Atari Portfolio. The exact same hardware John Connor used in the movie💻 (cont...)

What's everyone's favourite arcade games? ... Always wanted to make a scaled arcade cabinet, and I think I found the perfect portrait screen for that project, with this brand new, released today 10" TOUCH DISPLAY 2, from @Raspberry_Pi. Check it out!!! #AD www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-1...

I'm BACK 🙌 after a 5 month break, I've just dropped a new video over on YouTube, woo-hoo!! 🎉🎬 What transparent tech do you remember from the 90s/00s? 📼💾 Drop your favourites below! ⬇️ This one's a fun repair 🛠️: battery corrosion almost killed this Game Boy Color 🎮🔋💀, but not on my watch! (cont...)

🧩PUZZLE TIME!!! How many #COMMODORE words can you spot? ... Been having great fun, typing in on my #C64 the demo programs from my recent SIMONS' BASIC pickup. With one being this fantastic #WORDSEARCH generator, as such I thought it'd be fun to share this retro themed puzzle ... (cont...🧵)

Who remembers LaserDisc💿 players? Lucky £25 carboot (flea market) pick-up today. A 1982 Pioneer LD-1100 and what seems to be new in box as well, with the laser lens cap and transport locks still in place! (cont...)

Who remembers programming in BASIC? ... Nice pickup from Entertainment World in B'ham. Something I been wanting to try out for a while, Simons' Basic for the #Commodore #C64 ... Now have to ask, what other versions of BASIC, or other 80s programming languages do you recommend I check out? (cont...)

Who remembers PC gaming in the 1990s? If so, what's your favourite game from this era? ... Gaming like it's the 1990s with a #retrogaming CD-ROM classic everyone keeps recommending, that being the original 1995 RTS (real-time strategy) game, Command & Conquer from Westwood Studios. (cont...)

And have to say, C&C and Red Alert both run like a dream on my recently rebuilt #WindowsXP, Pentium MMX 233 MHz computer, with its 256 MB RAM (i know way over spec), S3 ViRGE/DX graphics card, and Sound Blaster sound card. What specs did you have? (cont...)

Who misses video games stores?🎮 and which one do you remember going to the most?🏬 ... And do you remember walking into a video game store back in the 80s/90s/00s and being hit with those epic branded signs and display cases? Bold logos, colourful epic posters and stands... pure magic!✨ (cont...)

And talking of making... I'm stepping out of my usual retro content for this one because I'm thrilled to announce I'll be attending #MakersCentral as a guest this year! (16-17 May 2026, NEC, Birmingham) can't wait to meet fellow makers and share the maker vibes. (cont...)

Who misses video games stores?🎮 and which one do you remember going to the most?🏬 ... And do you remember walking into a video game store back in the 80s/90s/00s and being hit with those epic branded signs and display cases? Bold logos, colourful epic posters and stands... pure magic!✨ (cont...)

Who remembers 80s/90s video gaming magazines? And do you miss them? 🎮🕹️ ... Having a great time going through this stack of vintage ZZap!64 magazines that my dad bought for me, knowing my retro obsession! 😄 ... Which ones did you buy back in the day, C&VG, Nintendo Power or something else? (cont...)

... What an absolute time capsule for the #C64. Loving the humour, reviews, and how vivid and bright each page looks. Also, obsessed with the covers by the legendary Oliver Frey. ... but seriously, what's with all the premium rate phone line adverts? Did you ask bill payer's permission 😂📞 (cont...)

What computer did you first learn to code on?👩🏻‍💻 (or not😂) ... Gaming like it's 1982 tonight!🔥... Still can't believe they squeezed a complete chess game, with computer opponent, into just 672 bytes on the ZX81. No castling or promotion, but still an absolute masterpiece of coding wizardry.🧙‍♂️ (cont...)

... we're so spoilt nowadays with gigabytes of RAM to play with ... so hats off to those incredible 80s programmers who squeezed amazing games into 48K/or 64K on the Speccy and C64! Drop your first coding machine in the comments below, bonus points if it had a language other than BASIC😄 (cont...)