Firing on all cylinders! Even figured out the largely undocumented and slightly pathetic opl rhythm section. For those of you not following along, that's the guts of a Brother AX15 typewriter soldered onto an AY psg, an OPL2, an (arm)SID and a Phillips SAA 1099, controlled by a Kawai Q80 sequencer 🤩

I am beyond delighted to tell you that my brand new album ‘This Could be Us, You, Or Anybody Else’ is out on 10 April 2026 on @chemunderground.bsky.social, and that you can pre-order it NOW, on this first #BandcampFriday of the year: brokenchanter.bandcamp.com/album/this-c...

Who loves it when your mayonnaise is nearly run out and you fill the bottle with a bit of water to clean it out and then drink the delicious mayonnaise water?

SURPRISE. i’m absolutely delighted to tell you my brand new single SHAKE IT TO BITS is out this friday on @chemunderground.bsky.social very exciting, i’m sure you’ll agree. visuals by @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social

iris bheag a rinn mi aig tachartas an Highland Zine Bothy, gus meòrachadh air cho slaodach is toinnte 's a bha sgrìobhadh Gàidhlig leis nach robh ach irisean Beurla againn ri ghearradh

Remember, kids: DO NOT leave the batteries in your stuff! Today’s chemistry lesson brought to you by Sony™ MiniDisc® Walkman®, the ravages of time and the indefatigable power of entropy.

Listen up, Pilots! We've teamed up with @blackscreenrecords.com to bring @barrytopping.com's BIRDCAGE Original Soundtrack to vinyl and MiniDisc! The hyper-electronic sounds of CAGE, beamed onto a disc you can hold in your hands, like a beautiful, precious egg. Pre-order now - ffm.to/birdcage 🎵🥚

Calling all #ZXSpectrum fans! To celebrate my latest game, "Full Spectrum Defence" going off to the publisher, both my previous games, "S.C.I.O.N" and "Knightmare", are now FREE to download from sausagewaregames.itch.io Enjoy! #8bit #retrogames #indiedev #retro

Blue Apple

HERE IS THE LINK TO BROWSER-BASED SUPER MONKEY BALL monkeyball-online.pages.dev This is *superb* (via @mtrc.bsky.social)

The design process

Go-Go BunnyGun by Ionian Games is out now! #ZXSpectrum #shmup

Meeting Notes - where it's clear I got hungrier as the meeting went on.

Kwyll, a new retro game creation tool initially targeting the Sinclair ZX Spectrum including the new The Spectrum, is now available to purchase. www.kwyll.com #spectrum #retro

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Hi I’m Lewis and I make videos and websites about old video games #PortfolioDay

That was quick 🤔

Things are awful, so a little treat for the real Crush-Heads. It is now eleven years since I got this printed in the Metro.

Occasional reminder that you can, in fact, do whatever you want no matter what the calendar says. Very freeing.

We’re in a Wimpys that looks like it hasn’t changed since the 90s and I fucking love it

It’s not a patch on the inimitable Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly by Drs Logan and O’Hara, but it scores higher over that tome in two respects. First, the Guide is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the letters inscribed in large, friendly letters.

The Spectrum Machine Code Reference Guide: Microdrive Interface 1 Complete ROM Disassembly. (Mince pie for scale. It’s a big book!)

Happy 2026! #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Keep Bitsocketing ✌️ xx

It’s a page of nonsense to print off and colour in to keep a child busy while you cook or for you to have some calm crayons time. Merry Christmas!

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Very sad news. May your soul rest in peace, Ben. You will be remembered by all. www.bytedelight.com #ByteDelight

Games shouldn't cost $100. Games should in fact cost £2, come on a cassette tape, only run on a 20kg computer that you could only buy in Britain in the 1980s, and be made over the course of six months by two 19 year-olds known only as "The Whizzy Brothers".

even in this toxic hellscape of a year, we can still enjoy the original Christmas Nights website nights.sega.jp/nights1/cont...

Now *this* is Christmas

'Step into Christmas' by Elton John but all the lyrics are 'welcome to my christmas song'

Last minute Christmas present for yourself? You know they'll just send you socks otherwise. I've got two MicroBeast Z80 kits that can ship immediately. After that, further kits will be sent out after Christmas. feersumbeasts.com/shop.html

Okay, NOW it’s Christmas. 📖 🔜 📺

On The ZX Spectrum Christmas Eve giveaway newsletter primed and in the pipe! Wanna chance of winning a bundle of Fusion Retro Goodness, sign up using the link in my bio. Merry Christmas!

Honestly it's so easy to find real music made by real people that you can champion. Find a record label putting out music you like, find an artist on that label you enjoy, and then look at what bands are supporting them on tour and check out their music. It'll just keep spiralling from there.

Godfrikindamnit. That's been busting my balls. Commenting out one line at a time to get it from 'definitely should work but doesn't' to 'ah, cool works great, but I don't know why'. Anyhoo, tuning table needs a tweak, but that's full real-time 6 note polyphony.

HTML is for life, not just for Christmas. This year, give the gift of Open Web. https://vole.wtf/doctype/

It’s our Office Christmas Party today, so it’s #XmasJumper time! Design your own unique Yuletide Wooly Pully from the comfort of your ZX Spectrum! 💾 robertmorrison.me/public/files...

Back in stock! 16K/48K ZX Spectrum style printed circuit board pin badges! All helps put a couple quid in the development kitty for new #retrocomputing stuff! www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm (Badges also available in SAM Coupe and Commodore 64/16/VIC-20 styles too!) #zxspectrum #samcoupe #commodore

🚀 To recreate the kind of program an ’80s kid would type into a display computer in a shop, type the code in the image below into a text/code editor, all on one line, then save as demo.html & double-click to open in browser vole.wtf/doctype/

WOOOOHOOOO!!! Success! I've added a soundblaster to a typewriter. Excuse the poor sound quality, I'm currently running it through a burglar alarm 😁

It's that time of year. Get you thinking Santa hats on an try to solve the 24 Christmas Picross puzzles in my free #C64 game Grid Pix Advent. thalamusdigital.itch.io/grid-pix-adv...

If you’re stuck for a Christmas gift for a computer nerd, I’m pretty sure they’ll prefer my magazine to another pair of socks or a Lynx gift set vole.wtf/doctype/ (Lulu currently seems pretty fast in UK but get orders in nowww to be safe)

They're nice reads.... and they have type-ins! Proper type-ins, like the Old Days!