Pixelblip

PS I am @pixelblip@mastodon.social I might come back to Bluesky later after election is over. We shall see.

I'm moving over to Mastodon. There's too much political crap on here in the feed. Sorry. See you over there. Pixelblip

I just saw that Retrogames white retro ZX spectrum and printer coming out in 2027. Me wants. Arrrgh! The printer was so much fun! I love that USB microdrive as well. There are too many retro computers to choose from! I do have a Spectrum 128k and sound sampler. Need to get it out soon for a fiddle.

I'd like to get a new Amiga 1200 but running two computers and two keyboards is not practical. If only I could use the Amiga keyboard as a standard USB keyboard for my old mac. I still need a working computer on the net. How did we cope in the 80s lol. I hanker after that A1200 keyboard and mouse

Parlour ( Clares Illusionist 1989)

Well I can't hide the fact I was a bit sad reading about Sony and it selling it's VR r n d stuff to Meta. The PS VR 2 seemed like a really good headset. It was too expensive on launch though! I wonder if we can use it with Linux...I love the PS4 VR headset. Very well designed! Sony do good design.

This is so 80s! The glasses and the haircuts. It all seemed so futuristic back then! My dad bought home one of those Epson computers in a briefcase from work. They were cool. I can remember how nice the keyboard felt and tried to write a game unsuccessfully! Happy days! youtu.be/P6Q57p-qTpU?...

Terrible I keep seeing Christmas decorations up on youtube at places around the U.K. So depressing. It's not even Halloween.

The B A.I Yo Tapestry

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Those new Microduck Robots look cool. 400 quid. A bit expensive for a kid's toy! I saw them and immediately remembered wanting a Big Trak and never being able to afford it. Last year I bought a Big Trak! So only another 45 years until I buy a Microduck then.

Trying to design a new sequencer..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=34aS...

what an unfortunate choice of words 🤣 I certainly wouldnt mind 🤣🤣

Nexus

Added patching with mouse and knob control www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjeT...

Don't forget to play around with our free art program for some retro goodness github.com/marsFS/ART-4...

Spooky Graveyard ( Clares Illusionist 1989)

Mission to X-5

I have just released Lander for the ARM Evaluation System. So that's the first ever ARM game running on the first ever ARM chip. See this Stardot thread for details: stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt... Fly safe! #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #archimedes

Some of the marketing has been quite clever for Ali G but I find the problem is that Ali G has become a caricature of himself even though he was one in the first place. Also it was funnier when we didn't know about me Julie. There is something very American about it now...whereas it was Slough e.t.c

Amityville (Clares Illusionist 1989)

The Pit and the Pendulum ( Clares Illusionist 1989)

Cauldron ( Clares Illusionist Render)

The sky is the limit now....bring it on

Creepy Crawlie

Mummy

VCV Rack...meh so yesterday 😂 Mode 2 Modular synth - (BBC micro) (yes this is not a dream... we are now officially in Singularity )

Scarecrow

Scarecrow ( Clares Illusionist Acorn Archimedes )

Modular Acorn Archimedes Synth anyone ;) :D

Bat

Dungeon

It will be very interesting to see how the music manufacturers now respond to M VAVE. Never before have we seen this.The culmination of A.I and firmware bringing us a myriad of new instruments. It's going to devalue alot of products. The quality of the software coming out for it is very good indeed.

A.I presents us with some really exciting opportunities to develop new music software for Android which we never had before. Cubasis was a good start..Fruityloops...Caustic. Let's hope we see new music software. PS I always loved Reg's modular synth in Caustic. Where are you now Reg? Bring it back!

A.G.I

Rower

Don't forget we still have our wonderful art program 'Art4Eva' that you can start painting with. It will produce BBC micro Mode 2 pictures fo rthe final output in 8 colours. There are various versions for you to play with. This is an earlier version github.com/marsFS/ART-4...

Jogger

Spooky House Don't worry..A.I hasn't replaced me yet....still doing pixel my art 😉

Spooky House ( Clares Illusionist - Acorn Archimedes )

SO...Raspberry pi 500+ or Amiga 1200....hmmmm

Planet

I can't program

Testing my new modular synth

Well like everyone is saying the M VAVE FM will destroy the synth market. 50 quid for a synth with now 65 different firmwares. Including Prophet V, CZ, TB303s....FM....grooveboxes I imagine alot of people are quaking in their boots now The built quality is really good. It has wiped the floor clean.

This is the speed of it running on my really ancient mac pro (20gb ) generating some aframe. Makes you wonder if you could run it on a ZX spectrum 😀

AI is the gift that keeps giving. I just made this for a Nintendo DS! A full modular synth.

Well it's interesting.On my mac pro 2013 the local LLM it took about 4 minutes to write a simple space invaders game. There were a couple of errors. That was using a 7GB OLLAMA model. It didn't know BBC Basic on the whole. It makes me wonder whether a 20gb model and a fast computer would be worth it

I'm going to try an LLM on my mac pro 2013. Lets see how slow it is! Dear Santa please can I have a mac mini M6

Crow