🔊 I am finally releasing v1.0 of Citadel 2 for the Acorn Electron 48K, ported from the BBC Micro (by Symo for Superior Software). Still MODE2 and at the same speed as the Beeb but with flicker-free sprites. 👾 github.com/0xC0DE6502/c... ☕ ko-fi.com/S6S33YYQ7

The educational room at the Northwest Computer Museum. Filled with BBC Micros, plus PCs running DOOM! This reminds me of school so much. The TV series Micro Live is playing in the background with Chris and Mac are discussing Laser Disc technology. The Computer Literacy Project was so important.

Zezito in the Glittering Caves (2025) on C64: paint floors, avoid snails, slow but charming. 🎁 iapetus2019.itch.io/zezito-in-th... #homebrew #commodore64 #c64 #retro #game #zezitointheglitteringcaves

Two-player #BBCMicro #Elite is coming along nicely. It now supports two pilots in two ships with two controllers and a split-view screen Here are some work-in-progress videos - see the thread for an explanation There’s lots to fix, but at least we have a proof-of-concept… (1/6) #retrocomputing

40 years ago… 1986 brought us another cracking game for the #Commodore64 #C64… EQUINOX from Mikro-Gen. An arcade adventure-SEU programmed by our good friend Nick Jones who will be back in FREEZE64 soon. FREEZE64.com

GAIA THEORY (WIP) Main boss theme for Infinity Lancer! I'm really happy with how this one has turned out. chip: Game Boy APU (3x) #chiptune #vgm

Putting some visual effects back in, like dropping a charm into the cauldron (cheat mode on, so any charm will do !) Also put in the ZX Spectrum version of the sun/moon timer !

Code Snap 2600, a visual tool to create simple games for #Atari2600 console based on Blocky kamaleon70.itch.io/code-snap-2600 #atari #blocky

Wonderful demo... planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2026/05/bons...

New video of Golden Axe work in progress for #Atari8bit computers #atari

While I continue to battle with compressed VGM playback streaming from disk at a decent speed, here's some brand new BBC Micro music by Enfys from Outline 2026. 🔊

People ask me how I do my software archaeology projects So when I spent 7 months documenting Geoff Crammond’s epic game The Sentinel, I kept a diary It’s not exactly Samuel Pepys, but it does explain how I disassembled an #8bit classic: bbcelite.com/disassembly_... #retrocomputing #BBCMicro #C64

Have put the 'missing' woodland block into the game. This was absent in the BBC Micro version, presumably due to memory usage. Many thanks to @kecskebak.bsky.social for pointing this out 😎

Putting the BBC Micro compressed VGM to the side for now as I can't get it to work at the required speed. Instead, I've been looking at some of the Tim Follin archives posted by @breakintoprogram.co.uk to GitHub to see if I can get any of the classic beeper music playing back on the SN76489: 🔊

More batched sspr drawing for #picotron 0.3.0d. Bits 0xf0000 in the sprite index can be used to anchor each sprite centered or right justified (used here to scale each sprite centered).

Testing batch #picotron 0.3.0d sspr // draw many scaled sprites with a single call by passing a userdata table of call parameters. Each row has its own src and dest region + anchoring bits (bottom center in this case).

Small update to #picotron "Grid Rider" to warn the player if they accidentally shoot a power-up. Play for free at: pahammond.itch.io/grid-rider #gamedev #c64 #arcade

Port of Citadel 2 to Acorn Electron (WIP). That's most (if not all) sprite flicker gone! Some rooms have up to 4 enemies, 2 elevators and the player sprite of course. Speed is acceptable and close to the BBC Micro version

🎁 Exo-Tical (2025) by Roolandoo for MSX. Pilot a ship on an unexplored planet, avoid hostile creatures, and master tight spaces! 🚀👾 URL: www.msxdev.org/2025/10/13/m... #homebrew #msx #retro #game #exotical

Citadel 2 for Acorn Electron (WIP) is working pretty well now. I have been working on the loaders and managed to find a better solution for displaying the energy bar and room title (shout out to @snuggsy187.bsky.social for the initial idea). Also, an attempt was made at frame pacing...

Not too much on Acorn Electron Knight Lore today.... just messing with title screen. Loads of standard memory available, so can afford displaying the control keys within the game, plus an alternate font (WIP)

Okay last one for tonight! A cover of Deku Palace from Zelda Majora's Mask I made sometime in 2020. This was the very first song I made where I fully understood how to maintain absolute control over the Filter PWM, and the sound design tricks I used have since stuck for all my subsequent songs. :3

My SID version of People Are People by Depeche Mode. ▶️ youtu.be/yCPAayDk3W8?... Those who know my music already know that I always try to push the SID chip to its limits — and I hope I managed to do that once again with this one. 🕹️🕺🎵🎶 #8bit #chiptune #C64 #Commdore64 #DepecheMode #80s #synthwave

I'm starting to feel much better today so to celebrate here's one of my best original songs that I still really like! 😺 youtu.be/10P2W00cG5Q

Here's an old one that almost became something. Sketch 63, that has kind of a summer vibe to it.

Just bumping this again..... 'cos why not ! 😊

Still pondering my next project.... There's always the port of KnightLore to the Acorn Electron I began working on some time ago (16K SWRAM required !) Still need to move over the main workspace memory, but performance isn't too bad at the moment !

Damn, that's a beautiful bug!

My universal converter for the BBC Micro SN76489 now contains support for over 15 PSGs and 20+ different input file formats. Most of the converters have been rewritten from scratch. Here's the latest addition... the .sndh converter that shares code with the .ym and .ay converters now. 🔊

Holy-Chuck-Knuckles! I've finally managed to get round to trying @snuggsy187.bsky.social AMAZING Chuckulus and I've such a big grin on my face - astounding achivement, really fun to play, great Chuckie Egg feel and looks amazing, bravo! (and my ElkULA replacement is happy with it too, phew!)

Not-so-random game of the day.... Android Attack for the BBC Micro - by Paul Hiscock for Computer Concepts 1983 Wanted a change from collecting eggs, and just shoot stuff !

.... Started a scratch port to the Acorn Electron two years ago. Mode 5 game instead of the Beeb's Mode 2 version, just to get the speed ! .... Just pondering my next project - this one's high on the list as a lot of the work I've done already ! @0xc0de.bsky.social

#RETROGAMING #8bit #zxspectrum #speccy Zezito and The Lost Stars - TC2048/ZX SPECTRUM WIP 4 - Scoreboard , torch animation, all baddies in. youtu.be/-NkZjWTqmqs #8BitArt #IndieGame #PixelPerfect #GamingCommunity #OldSchoolGaming #GameDev #RetroRevival

I've just published a deep dive into the Elite Demonstration Disc, Acornsoft's self-playing #BBCMicro Elite demo from 1984 This links to a second deep dive that analyses every code difference that makes the demo the demo I'll make it flicker-free next, because why not! 😀 #retrocomputing

Now available on itch.io planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2026/04/spec...

This game is absolutely amazing. Take the 8-bit classic Chuckie Egg and wrap it around a tower like Nebulus- and the result is Chuckulus. It's a bit of genius, beautifully coded by @snuggsy187.bsky.social Seriously, take a look. It’s that good. 🫡 #BBCMicro

CHUCKULUS for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro.... Download or play in browser: github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Coffee (no milk) welcome: ko-fi.com/snuggsy187

Acorn Electron Prince of Arabia WIP. Testing a few more movements. Now using an extra 16K RAM bank (auto-detected) for part of the large amount of sprite+mask data. Foreground tiles are working as well. No collision detection or map awareness yet

I've just released a web version of the documented source code for the Elite Demonstration Disc, the 1984 self-playing demo from Acornsoft. elite.bbcelite.com/demo It's got syntax colouring, hyperlinked labels, code maps, indexes, stats and more. Deep dive coming soon. #bbcmicro #retrocomputing

#RETROGAMING #8bit #zxspectrum #speccy Zezito and The Lost Stars - TC2048/ZX SPECTRUM WIP 2 - Collecting objects, opening doors, moving to another room youtu.be/KPyLzLEMpVM #8BitArt #IndieGame #PixelPerfect #GamingCommunity #OldSchoolGaming #GameDev #RetroRevival

#RETROGAMING #8bit #zxspectrum #speccy Zezito and The Lost Stars - TC2048/ZX SPECTRUM WIP 2 - Collecting objects, opening doors, moving to another room youtu.be/KPyLzLEMpVM #8BitArt #IndieGame #PixelPerfect #GamingCommunity #OldSchoolGaming #GameDev #RetroRevival

#picotron Grid Rider (#gridrunner) updated to v0.82 to increase difficulty when having looped through all levels. pahammond.itch.io/grid-rider #gamedev #retrogaming #c64 #arcade

#RETROGAMING #8bit #zxspectrum #speccy Zezito and The Lost Stars - TC2048/ZX SPECTRUM I am bringing this version to the level of the Thomson MO5 one. youtube.com/watch?v=0hrZ... 8BitArt #IndieGame #PixelPerfect #GamingCommunity #ArcadeVibes #OldSchoolGaming #GameDev #RetroRevival

I've started disassembling the #BBCMicro Elite Demonstration Disc. Acornsoft sent this out to shops in 1984. It flies itself and contains rudimentary pilot AI. Did anyone see this back in the day? It’s fun to watch! You can run it in your browser: bbc.xania.org?autoboot&dis... #retrocomputing

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Another review... planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2026/04/elec...

This is pretty amazing. Draw accurate landscapes from The Sentinel on a pen plotter? And animate them? I'm definitely in! newsletter.revdancatt.com/p/085-the-se... I do my projects for a lot of reasons, but seeing what people do with them? Yeah, that's a big one. 😀 #bbcmicro #c64 #retrocomputing

#RETROGAMING #8bit #thomson #mo5 Zezito and The Lost Stars - Thomson MO5 I am bringing this version to the level of the C64 one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDk... #8BitArt #IndieGame #PixelPerfect #GamingCommunity #ArcadeVibes #OldSchoolGaming #GameDev #RetroRevival