Pre-orders for FREEZE-ZX issue 02 are now closed while the issue is being printed. Thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered; your copy will arrive with a FREE collectable cheat card. The issue will be on general sale around w/c 8th Dec 2025. freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXSpectrum #Z80

Today's #retrogaming on the #ZXSpectrum #Colony , protect the colony from alien creatures, this is an engrossing game that really does become addictive.

Capacitor with a bumhole #AtariST #Repairs

Tomorrow morning I’m sending FREEZE-ZX issue 02 off to the Printers. Pre-orders will be closed tomorrow at 8am GMT. Any orders received *before* then will automatically receive one of our cool collectable Cheat Cards. freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXspectrum #Zx80 #Speccy #GameDev

Well now, if it isn't the very latest issue of @freeze64.bsky.social fresh from Vinny! Thank you mate. As always I'll enjoy reading it! ❤️❤️ #commodore #c64 #Retro

All hands to the pump at FREEZE Towers. We currently have 4 issues in the making: - FREEZE-ZX #02 due in Dec 2025 - FREEZE64 #81 scheduled for Jan 2026 - FREEZE64 #82 scheduled for Feb 2026 - FREEZE-ZX #03 scheduled for April 2026 FREEZE64.com #Commodore64 #ZXspectrum

The first batch of Subscriber copies of FREEZE64 issue 80 has been posted out. The lucky recipients have been sent a dispatch email. More copies being packed and sent over the next few days 😊 freeze64.com/freeze64-iss... #Commodore64 #C64

FREEZE-ZX issue 02 is all written and page-set. Time to start proofreading. The issue is schedule for release in December 2025. Pre-order from: freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Z80

Hey, remember those days when your emails had a little sentence that said "Consider the environmental impact of printing this email"? And now all businesses on the planet are like FUCK YEAH GENERATIVE AI IS THE ONLY WAY FUCK HAVING FRESH WATER TO DRINK. I guess I missed the meeting.

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Loved FS&F when I was a wee nipper. Sad to read the news that Frank has died. The episode of Goon Pod is a delight, go subscribe and listen.

The second article is about the almost mythical Tolkien-inspired text adventure Ringen. It turns out almost everything previously "known" about this game was wrong. We have the full story, and a playable version of the game.

This is just not right! I am outraged.

Pretty happy with how today went - after spending a few days gnarled under with silly bugs I've managed to get a load done, including importing from Blender using a Python script and refactoring the code so I can render more models in the viewport...

The second batch of print for FREEZE-ZX issue 01 has already sold out before it has arrived! The third batch is scheduled for September 2025, so get your order in now! freeze64.com/freezezx-iss... #ZXSpectrum #Z80 #Sinclair #Speccy

Don't forget to support your friendly neighbourhood retro computer fanzine guy...

Currently soldering iron deep in this here Vectrex.

Yes #Ipswich you beauty

Today's team meeting Question of the Day was "Which dinosaur would you be?" and for a joke I said "A Cobol programmer" and then I realised I studied and programmed Cobol and now I am sad.

Thank you Vinny! #ZXSpectrum #Sinclair #RetroComputing #Retro #gaming @freeze-zx.bsky.social issue one is here. Looking forward to reading this beauty.

People are having trouble getting to the #Latitude Festival and posting about it online:

Verified my age by the computer listening to the sound I made when getting up out of my office chair.

I wrote a game for BreakSpace magazine... here I talk about it. Don't forget that you can download BreakSpace for FREE and type it in yourself! youtu.be/Z3pUIbm5n-Q

Today's the day when my house insurance company sent me my next year's quote and it was the same as last year's quote, but +£100. Grateful and blessed and I've never clicked a "you can fuck off" button quicker.

Underwhelming music on the Stranger Things 5 trailer.

Accidentally shoved 20v through an Atari 2600 Junior. Now I have one less Atari 2600 Junior.

Had a Twix and it was nice.

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Never look a horse gift in the horse gift muzzle.

👉 Calling all #ZXSpectrum #Speccy enthusiasts… Pre-order a copy of FREEZE-ZX ‘zine issue 1, and receive one of our FREE Collectable Cheat Cards. The issue is complete, and schedules for August 2025 release. 😃🥳 freeze64.com/freezezx-issue-1

Got into Park Patrol after reading about it in @freeze64.bsky.social, what a total treat of a game. And HERO I remember mainly from playing on the Atari 2600, but as usual the C64 takes the game & gives it extra sparkle & life. Looking at Vinny's selection, I have a lot of games to go back & enjoy!

Well done Nothing phone's PR and design teams. Well done.

The very latest The Thing Monthly is now available for you to download from www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bvsa9... Or if you'd rather not download a PDF from a rando on the internet, feel free to read from the attached images. #fanzine #TheTM #ThingMonthly #YS #YourSinclair #retro #wibble #hatstand

Tomorrow night I'm giving a talk about my career at the Haywards Heath Arts Festival in West Sussex, England. There's a ton of clips (many video, rarely if ever seen) and a lot of inside stories about working in radio, audio, animation and more. If you can make it I think you'll enjoy it.

My first ever proper gig and now I can listen to it again for the first time. #Bowie #MiltonKeynes1990

Just watched the Alien 3 Legacy Cut and man oh man is it lovely. Thank you to the team that worked so hard to bring it to us. #A3LC

Off to the pub for a quick beer and a read of @freeze64.bsky.social, fresh off the press and good as ever. Thank you Vinny!! ❤️😍 #Retro #gaming #commodore64 #c64

Aight Ipswich?

WhatsApp just sent me a message to say WhatsApp had sent me a message but I wouldn't be able to read it on WhatsApp.

While it's trendy to talk about Pulp, I have one Jarvis story. I bumped into him one year as I was walking around parts of the Latitude Festival I shouldn't have been. He came bowling out of the back of a tent, bumping into me.

Holywells Park, painted around 1748, offers a rare glimpse of Ipswich through the eyes of one of Britain’s most celebrated portraitists — in landscape mode. This sweeping vista is one of only a handful of known topographical scenes by Thomas Gainsborough, and it's packed with local detail.

Woo! Incoming! (almost)

Hi @boingboing.net can you please credit my animation that this article is about. Thanks. You could also do an article on how artists and animators work is incredibly undervalued, with hours of hard work being shared without credit, let alone payment. All the more so in this age of AI theft.

Is there a greater betrayal than a USB cable that only does power?

Look, all I am saying is that Futurama did it first

Always great stuff from Vinny, so go check out Freeze-ZX if you love your #Speccy.

There's so much stuff in Luthen's shop in Andor I think I spotted the Six Million Dollar Man doll I lost when I was 8.

Posters up everywhere at the doctors' surgery yesterday: "COULD IT BE SEPSIS?" which I never really considered to be one of Manilow's best.

I see a lot of people who don't buy or eat fish are now, once again, very concerned about where the fish they don't want to buy or eat are going.

It's a beautiful day today so I hope you are inside watching Rogue One.