Somebody asked if Dottie could run on the iPad. I had had this in mind from the beginning, so most systems were already portable. Still, early days but the answer is YES. #pixelart #ipad #iosdev www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

Asteroids, the classic arcade game, in only 475 lines? #gamedev #wip #jinksgg

THE AMUSEMENT WORLD OF MSX 総合カタログ (ASCII, 1985-11) MSXギャングたちは、アスキーでパラダイスする。 The MSX Gang are having a blast at ASCII. ひろがるMSXなかま100万台。 The MSX community is growing to one million units. jp.mercari.com/item/m529779...

Recent update 1.3.3 to PaperTrail, my TaskPaper-compatible client for iPhone and iPad, added: • swipe to indent/outdent Such a *huge* QOL improvement I regret not bumping the version number to 1.4 😅 www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/papertr...

@pablo0151.bsky.social ✨💿✨ consequence.net/2026/07/the-...

The Great Wave 神奈川沖浪裏 is on view at Otaru Art Village Ukiyo-e Museum, Hokkaido, until 30th August, 2026. www.nitorihd.co.jp/otaru-art-ba...

@aresluna.org multiple calendar emoji is explainable. Unicode adopted the Japanese sets as they were. Unifying distinct characters would have caused incompatibility. Mentioned at youtu.be/9BaLTBTqHmw My blog, the oldest pairing of the word 絵文字 emoji & symbols blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l...

Small update on the Megadrive *rally game* ? I added sprites and did some optimization so CPU is still at 70% usage with a stable 60 fps. I'm a bit disappointed by the sprite width limit per-line. I wanted a lot more dense vegetation but it's not possible with sprites. I'll try other methods.

つまり、タツノオトシゴの絵文字は最初から存在していたんだ！ 夢でも、記憶違いでもなかったんだ。 blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l... #世界絵文字デー

Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l... *So it wasn't a dream!* I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day. 🎉

Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l... *So it wasn't a dream!* I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day. 🎉

Thinking about how succinctly some games can be described… - DEPOSIT QUARTER - BALL WILL SERVE AUTOMATICALLY - AVOID MISSING BALL FOR HIGH SCORE PONG (1972) Syzygy Engineered/Atari, Inc.

'Die Hard' was released on this day in 1988. My whooooole book about it will be out in the spring. But in the meantime, here's something I wrote on its 30th for @vulture.com, about how it was far from a sure thing:

oldie but goldie: tiny legends i'd like to make a second part of this one eventually #PixelArt #Art #Fanart #Gaming #AnubiArts

Separated at birth… "Matenro No Koibito” by hitomitoi (2012) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyTj... 1/2

This is a cool way to find other letterboxd users with the same excellent taste in movies as yourself lettermatchd-web.vercel.app ps: i find it staggering how little actually useful social/discovery the letterboxd site has given that it is an actual social site. wild

Going back to one of my all-time favourite albums #NewMusicMix "Stay Lucky" by @nerinapallot.bsky.social "Here is blue, here is gold Down that river I've been sold It's something that I can't contain I feel it coursing through my veins" What an opening verse song.link/https:/music...

I’ve added a newsletter signup to my site, if you want to stay up-to-date on my projects, app/game releases, or general happenings. blog.gingerbeardman.com/newsletter Small print: one email a month, unsubscribe at any time, using proven list manager software, I'll never share your email.

THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS AN ADOLESCENT FANTASY

A Beginner’s Guide to Toshiba Personal Word Processors JW 95F / JW 95H (1989) Swoon-worthy illustrations. And it could even do vector graphics! Check out those preset shapes. More about this machine on Friday!

Help, my Sega Megadrive is out of control ! It must think it's a Playstation or something. Yes, it's fully synced 60 fps :)

Starting to look a bit better with my Archy sequencer and new 3d effects. Need to sort out that envelope as it goes off the page!

Working through my listening queue @record.club in my own little menu bar music player (powered by Apple Music)

Lossless was disabled in Music app, but some apps still honour the disabled streaming/download preferences, which is where my bandwidth was going. To fix, enable lossless, change streaming/download preferences, press OK, then go back in, disable lossless and press OK again.

I've always loved the process of learning: starting from zero and working toward mastery. The current tech landscape feels like being back at school—something new every day. So many ideas and possibilities. What a time to be alive. Today I begin again. What's next? 📈

I’ve added a newsletter signup to my site, if you want to stay up-to-date on my projects, app/game releases, or general happenings. blog.gingerbeardman.com/newsletter Small print: one email a month, unsubscribe at any time, using proven list manager software, I'll never share your email.

🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳ A glimpse of Sega Japan sometime in 1991 during the development of Golden Axe too, snapped from a Megaforce magazine feature. Not only do we get a lovely photo of Sega HQ in Tokyo, but some very cool shots of how game art was created and then digitised onto the screen.

Brutify, my fast and friendly image optimiser, recently received an update. It introduced “headless mode”, allowing the app to close automatically when it finishes, or even to completely hide the window. If any errors occur, the app will still appear. www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/brutify/

Dottie, my pixel art editor, has a custom colour picker featuring text colour search using the ~32K list of colour names by @meodai.bsky.social www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

#NewMusicMix what's old is new again Mercury & Solace (Sasha Extended Remix) by BT www.youtube.com/watch?v=smo_...

Dottie, my pixel art app, has Quick Look support for both its artwork files and palettes. 🎨 And there's more: one-click imports from Lospec website, plus a ton of legacy formats: .gpl, .pal, .ase/.act/.aco, .clr, etc. including embedded colour names! 🌈 www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

spirit of the stones, print ad, imagery, commodore 64 (1985) archive.org/details/pers...

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

Still using my "Walk with me!" Nintendo DS pedometer, last checking was 176,000 steps. which added about 5 percent to my total. Slowly getting there!

By the by, I can go on about interesting/not very good third party controllers for days…🙂‍↕️

Dottie has an old school "coordinates" floating window, showing: • origin x,y • end x,y • width,height • angle,distance www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

BottleMail was a system for delivering email, but is was totally different from regular email because both the destination (a single person) and the date when it will be delivered were unspecified! Mac OS & Windows 1997–2002, RECRUIT CO., LTD. macintoshgarden.org/apps/bottlem...

May I proudly present... Super Wild Cart kinda Excite Truck × Flicky × Donkey Kong's Crash Course Still *so much* to do but it is fun already! Pretty much locked 60fps, and do I have a story to tell about the toolchain…but that's one for another time. #superwildcart #snesdev

May I proudly present... Super Wild Cart kinda Excite Truck × Flicky × Donkey Kong's Crash Course Still *so much* to do but it is fun already! Pretty much locked 60fps, and do I have a story to tell about the toolchain…but that's one for another time. #superwildcart #snesdev

First sighting of an early version of my SNES engine/game being tested in the wild! #superwildcart #snesdev

Last call for Flight 303 to Instant Happiness! "Fly Hawaii" by Luke Vibert & BJ Cole from the album "Stop the Panic" (2000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgiP...

Dottie also has an innovative tile editing mode…but how can that be innovated? • split canvas into tiles • select tiles shown for editing • wrap tiles for seamless editing • arrange into columns Let me know your thoughts 🤔 • releasing 2026-08-06 www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

Today is an XTC day. Summer chased by Autumn Autumn chased by Winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1r...

Did I mention Dottie supports vector layers and animation timeline? I’m busy landing all my “almost finished” stuff for the first release. Still tweaking the UI (always and forever). www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

I released an MML based game-ready homebrew audio driver for the SNES. It's been used in a few games. I'm still working on it and I plan on adding sample swapping and a tracker format to it. github.com/undisbelieve...

And that's 30,000 signatures so far.

On this date in 1993, Björk - 'Debut' was released. 📈 #8 for 1993, #579 overall rateyourmusic.com/release/albu...

Dottie's pixel canvas is backed by Metal, so it runs at 120Hz (actually ~160Hz but my displays are limited). No matter how large the canvas is the response time is constant! Pixel data is stored in an optimised way so even huge canvases take little RAM. www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

🕹️ Daikaijuu Monogatari 📚 Weekly Famitsu 300 👤 @gamingalexandria.bsky.social

Trying to decide the final order of the Layers menu in my pixel art app Dottie. 🫠 I know it doesn't really matter that much, but this is the sort of attention to detail I put into my apps. 😅 (and of course it's another reason to use a spreadsheet/csv)