If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.

The Comcast board are going to be upset when they find out The Adventurer didn’t get a second series.

If you’re looking for something to watch this Halloween, you could do worse than the psychological sci-fi horror Beyond The Black Rainbow. Slow, brooding, psychedelic, beautifully shot, wonderfully scored; it’s the aftermath - when 1960s mind expansion turns bad and becomes far more sinister.

This shouldn’t work with Brian Donlevy as a Quatermass who seems to be on the verge of pulling a machine gun out of a violin case in every scene, but it does.

Absolutely this. Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising. A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!

Bet the 2026 Xmas special will start with Billie Piper walking up and walking into the console room. We’ll see Tennant turn round, towel in hand from just having a shower and say “Morning”, then we’re into the credits, forgetting that anything after the 2005 Christmas special ever happened…

They think that’s Michael Elphick? MICHEL ELPHICK?

September 30th / October 1st

"James Bond will return in 'In Her Majesty's Secret Tea Set' oh no hold on that's not it 'On His Majesty's Flying Carpet', oh hold on that's not right either. Who writes these titles?"

Vardy’s on fire. Defence? Terrified.

A new episode of World of Telly is available now wherever you get your podcasts. This week we travel back to 1960 as we explore The Strange World of Gurney Slade. The video version of this podcast will be released later this weekend.

Any list without The Adventurer on it should not be taken seriously.

As an exercise in nostalgia for Gen-X with spare cash? Fair enough & good luck! After the comments re:New Commodore reintroducing Amiga as a viable mainstream alternative, this demonstrates clearly the uphill battle that a modern Amiga would have gaining critical mass in today’s computing landscape

I’m looking forwards to mine. My phone is full of videos of my cat, including our magnum opus: him running up and down the garden like a lunatic after butterflies (spoiler, they fly too high and he never catches them). Just a matter of time before I get the call, isn’t it?

Running AfG on Gopher for the last week has been quite a surprise. Slowly getting the articles we already have ready migrated over there. Must say I find exploring Gopher space to be quite lovely; the lo-fi-ness of that world is a respite from the web as we have today.

Literally lived off these a few years ago when I was working abroad. No, I will not be taking questions.

No. You spent your holiday building a Gopher server (at last) and converting articles to a readable format so you can put something live before the end of August.

Run program: Sentionauts, from Beyond The Black Rainbow.

My first laptop, a TI Extensa 600CD, expected me to write 28 floppies on first boot to create reinstall media. A TI Extensa 600 *CD*. Yes, it had a built in CD drive - a major selling point. Why TI didn’t put a Win 95CD in the box like everyone else, I don’t know. Yeah I do. Cost. It’s always cost

Two movies nobody would believe are by the same director:

I was going to do something with Powder as I found a CD of theirs recently. Had forgotten they existed and only twigged today the band’s name was probably an “edgy” 90s drug reference. Went completely over my head as at the time I assumed it was to do with washing powder. Can’t diminish it further.

Leatherette. Brett Anderson and Mat Osman, please forgive me.

Seeing odd responses to the Commodore news. Thing is, it was a forward looking company. That's why people loved it. You just need to look at Jack Tramiel's history to know why he said he lived in the future. Definitely love your Amiga, VIC20 or C64; but Commodore itself was never about nostalgia.

Excellent point! “Wasn’t it wonderful when we were kids and all you had to worry about was eating crisps and playing your Commodore 64?” Well no. I had a bedtime. I couldn’t afford games. We didn’t have a VCR or CD. I love retro, but hate when it becomes a fetishisation of a past that never was.

“I had to go to the cellar to find it” “That’s the PR dept.” “With a torch” “The lights had probably gone” “So had the stairs” “But you found the press release?” “Yes, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!”

Oh, there is a press release. Just not in Commodore’s website? That’s odd.

I’m seeing posts in Reddit that Commodore has changed hands. I can’t confirm because it looks like the announcement is paywalled.

Would it be cynical to think that someone starts announcing new products when there is money for trademarks apparently sloshing around?

I’m surprised at how many people I know are using ChatGPT for information discovery because “it’s easy” and aren’t really bothered on accuracy, as long as it sounds plausible. “Sir Clive made the C64+3 in 1981 you say? Close enough. Publish!”

It was inevitable wasn’t it? How depressingly familiar. And they’ve not even bought the trademarks yet. commodore.inc/press-releas...

After all the Irn Bru talk yesterday, I was drawn like a moth to the flame yet again…

*Enshittification intensifies*

Has to have style; only one man for the job.

After reading around some more, not feeling it for the new Commodore's 64 Ultimate; and this coming from someone who put his cash down on a Spectrum Next. At the price point, this isn't going to be for me; I hope that those who pay down their money, enjoy their purchase.

Well behind the curve today. Seeing stuff about a Commodore 64 Ultimate, but only a ~1:20 video... so is this the product that new Commodore are leading with?

Strong “We have WH Smiths at home” vibes.

And with Run Progam: Sentionauts, it has one of the greatest soundtracks ever.

Just want to point out, this was how Rendezvous with Rama started…

And here’s another bump for our most recent podcast.

This really has the feel of some of the Kolchak expanded fiction covers. Not a complaint.

In my mind, Alex Cox is wedded Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Sundays in 1992, right after Moviedrome, when I should have been fast asleep. I really miss curated culture like this; algorithms churning out recommendations for the next reaction video isn't a suitable substitute.

Dare I say it but from the trailer, F1 the Movie looks very similar in premise to 2001’s Driven. The rightly much derided Sly Stallone movie that started out as an F1 film then switched codes to CART when licensing fell through. And from the finished product, F1 dodged being involved with a turkey.

That’s ruined my favourite pair of sunglasses (original design Oakley Frogskins, white frames, orange lenses).

Oh god, I hate them all so much. I hate them with the passion the company that gave the rep a diesel maestro must have had for him.

Robots of Death Caves of Androzani Attack of the Cybermen Genesis of the Daleks The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

ITV’s current malaise could be cured by looking back to this; not just the kind of cross-over we want, but the cross-over we deserve.

Two episodes into #Don'tDrinktheWater. The writers are mining the stereotypes hard; Louis Mansi as a letcherous, lazy local workman, Pat Coombs wishing she was in Bognor and how she misses Co-op (they go there for the Divvy)... At this rate, not sure how they'll can sustain another episode...

It has begun. Straight away I love Stephen Lewis’ reaction to his new digs. Wide-eyed wonder. “This is *living*”, he’s saying to himself, “This is *life*. It’s quite charming. Send thoughts and prayers. This might be as good as it gets.

New Video: Whips out for the lads with Vixen on the CPC, C64, Speccy, ST, Amiga and PC. youtu.be/H5G-dtRqrzM

It’s here! No, YOU’RE going to spend the evening transferring it so you can upload it to your phone and watch it on your way to work.