I can hear the noise of eggs.

To celebrate the unrelenting drizzle here's a collection of fleece shaking.

I easily traversed the twisty right-angle passages at the end of Skramble, a true test of any joystick, so I think the Immortal has proven itself worthy! 🕹️

My minotaur has an enormous red knob.

My minotaur has an enormous red knob.

Holding down a key on my midi keyboard and my synth is making a noise like the intro to Welcome To The Machine. I *love* this. Should have got into synth coding ages ago. So much fun! 🐂

deer 🦌

This was the scene at the cow garage a couple of hours ago.

Not that I've actually seen any solar peeping for a while, duw duw.

I love the Welsh word for 'dawn' which is "gwawr". It's like the noise I'd imagine a little monster would make. Gwawr. Makes me think of the sun peeking over the horizon and exclaiming "gwawr!".

Even the joystick cable is like a posh hifi cable. Just look at that connector.

Behold my glistening red knob. Now *that* is a weapon.

Perhaps you have made a mistake

Morning Sheep Time It's grey and drizzling. It has always been grey and drizzling. It always will be grey and drizzling. Wool is trapped in an infinite moist void, the black pony of despair muddied and nippy. Damp black crows descend on jagged fragments of biscuit. This is our fate now. The void wa

Here's Snoop Dogg pointing at a pothole in Swansea.

Today's most sweary incidents involved a single equals sign (invented by a bloke from Tenby) and a single comma (I don't know who invented the comma, or where). 🦬

(thing behaves weirdly) WTF... *looks around frantically, discovers an equals sign that fell on the floor, picks it up and reinserts it* (thing behaves nicely) 🦬

'avin' a fag

Gair y dydd: CYNFFONNAU ŴYN BACH

Got an email to say that 30,000 people have viewed my pictures of Minot train station on Google Maps.

Everybody ends up bearded.

Both hands are needed. Actually I could probably do with an extra.

Wool shaking time for Dom.

Giles has been stopping by my desk for games of Bruce Lee. I'm getting excellent Italian swearing lessons directly into my left earhole when he does. He needs to clear a bit of space in his room and set up his own c64u!

Pushed the boat out and ordered one of these. Since I foresee a bunch of c64 time in my future I figure it's worth arming myself with an excellent weapon. Up on a button for jump is going to be so nice for a bunch of stuff too. https://www.retro32.com/product/immortal-joystick-v2

there's a cracking version of Berzerk on the c64, pretty much a perfect port and even with (slightly low rez but still) speech! CHICKEN FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT 🤖🤖🐔🤖🤖

RE: https://furry.engineer/@notthatdelta/116117308427000122 🫎

RE: https://swecyb.com/@meriksson/116119621379876915 🦌

and apparently in homage to the Fire Command somebody on the AtariAge forums made THIS bonkers monster :D

apparently they did do a version of the Fire Command with 2 buttons. I'd've love to have got one of those!

It's really nice having a #Commodore with modern conveniences like HDMI and the ability to contain within itself just about everything ever made for it, but which is still very much a traditional C64 in the way it feels to use. I've been really enjoying getting my 8-bit on over the weekend :D 🐂

I thought the diagonals were buggered on that big Fire Command joystick but testing with other software shows they are working perfectly, must have just been reading the joystick wrong in the Scramble game I was testing on. Liking the big od beast even more now! 🕹️

Just rinsed Giles' Zeta Wing II high score.

Morning Sheep Time Not actually raining and you can almost see the sun. Fleeces the least damp they have been for days, it's a miracle! Everybody is happier out of the stables for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYD6NCbjrvs #defaidodon #sheepofMastodon #sheep

That big joystick doesn't seem to do diagonals at all but it's excellent for Space Taxi.

This old monster still works ok!

Thought I'd struck gold earlier today when I found a never unboxed Konix joystick, but when I got it out it had a weird round end on the cable, I think for a C16/Plus 4. Oh well.

Dw i'n mynd i'r gwely neu bydda i'n chwarae gemau c64 dros y nos. Nos da! 🐂

I need to find a better comp pro though. This is an original that Giles cleaned up for me but the left hand fire button isn't working and it's a bit of a reach to always hit the right. But still. I'm going to be playing a bunch of Commodore 64 games, no doubt.

Look at that big ox!

trying to get the c64u to be loadable from Assembly64 running on the PC, I can get the c64u to show up in the list but get "unknown error" when trying to run anything on it.

I can hear someone miaouwing again.

Behold our curries.

An inflatable congratulatory object was deployed at the curry house.

I am in the Cwrw, and Giles is shooting Donkey Kong directly up the arse.

That's enough synthing for this week - time for curry now, then over the weekend I'll set up my new Commodore 64. And have my first lightsynth running alongside my latest. 🐂👍

dw i'n meddwl am pa fath o cyri dw i'n moyn nes ymlaen heno. Rhywbeth poeth, efallai.

Google AI summary reckons the word "cheeseling" could be used to refer to small bits of cheese but I trust AI summary about as far as I could spit an entire wheel of cheese.

I don't think we have an actual diminuitive word for cheese in English.