Pouring myself an early Xmas morning coffee and seeing what Santa Snorkers brought!

More festive genius from Snorkers. 😎🎄

¿Es Navidad cuando Hans Gruber cae desde (más de 6 metros) el Nakatomi Plaza? ¿Es Navidad cuando Clarence consigue sus alas y el bueno de George descubre que la gente no es tan mala como parece? NO. Navidad es simplemente: @whathosnorkers.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHH...

youtu.be/RxHHY3WgvM8 I decided to do a Christmas Special this year, as is traditional. It's got something for everyone. Programming! Muttering! Fancy dress! Special effects! And my homage to The Night The Reindeer Died.

RIP Gil Gerard.

The Amiga hit its stride in 1986 and for the following 10 years was amazing, so I've picked my 2 favorite games for each year that I "owned" back in the day. youtu.be/lnKy-IkDjiQ

Let's spread some joy! This weeks YouTube thread: #1 @rubbishheap.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rubb...

5 recommendable video, and you'll need to watch all 5 to figure out why I'm in 2 of them...

This is great bsky.app/profile/dant...

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

#FF #FollowFriday @owdocookie.bsky.social @nikkijay.games @visitthecave.bsky.social @antaeus000.co.uk @taralu228.bsky.social @misslunarmagick.bsky.social @slopesgameroom.bsky.social @ashens.bsky.social @zombiworkshop.bsky.social @lordarse.com @whathosnorkers.bsky.social @yeroldad.bsky.social

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...

Completely rushed announcement!

Spectaculator 9 a la vuelta de la esquina, o eso mismo parece. Habrá que esperar a que sea verdad. En la web de este famoso emulador de ZX Spectrum anuncia el lanzamiento de su nueva versión para el próximo dia 19 de este mes. #ZXSpectrum #Emulación #Spectaculator9 www.spectaculator.com

🧵🚨 “𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐊 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬.” I will lead the petition debate after it passed over 100,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure Parliament must now confront this issue head-on. The petition is here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 1/5

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

185 years is long enough. Wymondham Station must get step-free access to Plat 2. In the Railways Bill debate I pushed again for action, plus progress on Ely & Haughley upgrades & protecting our Mid-Norfolk Heritage Railway. A modern rail system must not leave passengers behind. youtu.be/wU6zkq86vWg

youtu.be/oi9u5cFxyI0 It's time to livestream once again! LET'S GOO!!

It's new video day! And as it was my birthday yesterday, I'm looking at a couple of games I bought around my birthday in years gone by: youtu.be/QmB3yYWjEh4

Putting together a short dos trivia quiz video for a holiday event with friends. 10 questions from easy to tough. Assuming it goes well, I'll post it to my YouTube channel afterwards. As usual, I'm over-engineering the thing. 😕 Have spent 10+ hours in production thus far.

This genuinely should be the illustrative example for how gaming went wrong during the "Brown FPS shovelware" era.

It's that YouTube recap nonsense people will no doubt flood the socials with, like that Spotify age one! Hooray! Loving the disclaimer. Even Al knows he makes mistakes. Stupid Al.

Y'know what's huge right now? Fascism! Who knows what it is? Nobody! Why not get a handle on it with a fascinating and fast-moving biography of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco? Written by me! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191549014...

And that is the sequel of this! youtu.be/jk7CBi865z0?...

Today's episode is brought to you by the letter BRICK

It's the festive season once more. And we all watch repeats on telly right? Right? youtube.com/shorts/bmdy0...

There's gold in that there back catalogue.

Ai in videogames sucks. Ai in art sucks (it isn't art). Try and mash them together? FrankenstAins Monster levels of rubbish. Some (yolk)folks should know better sadly. #Ai #videogame #gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZF...

Pearson's Magazine, December 1914, had these 'war shadow' party tricks to make sure your Christmas party went with a bang... #TommyAtkins #BNA #OldNewspapers #FWW

The artwork of #Gauntlet by Joe Chiodo used on the cover of the #NES releases (both) in North America. It was also used for Gauntlet IV on #SegaGenesis/#MegaDrive (all regions). Added some missing bits on the sides/bottom, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch combo.

Paddingrake's Progress

I went to the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum to see their FMA IA 58 Pucará!

Lo mejor del viernes es ÉSTO:

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

Today I have a cold. It's not the end of the world, but not ideal. Lemsip later!

Once again I'm reminded by just how much the WWI is absent from the psyche of folks in ex-USSR where I grew up, it was pretty much erased from historiography, to this day at that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXMJ... (video by @whathosnorkers.bsky.social)

I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever. share.google/0iFkShpPuOKA...

If @onecreditclassics.bsky.social plays this on stream, I will fucking laugh

Is your child texting about the Mary Rose? Here are the signs... BRB - Boat Raised Brilliantly LOL - Lots of Linstocks TBH - That Boat's Historic WTF - Wood That's Freeze-dried ROFL - Really Old Flagship (Late) PMSL - Polyethylene glycol Makes Stuff Last

The last one for 1987 and then things change for our little 8 bit friends as the newer super swish computers arrive in the charts …bring on 1988 (which if im being honest is a nightmare to compile lol ) youtube.com/watch?v=EJnX...

Dropping half a communion wafer and banging out to this.

Next Friday... they've gone too far this time.

Since I'm sick and on a break from Twitch and everything, anyone interested in more gaming history, Twitch shenanigans and Italian memes could do much worse than join my new Discord server. Hold up, not much worse. https://discord.gg/t9kSHPxn3

WHOA! I never did my Pope Vibe for the new pope! Read and then enjoy the rest of this megathread. Pope Leo XIV was a substitute teacher at your primary school and everyone LOVED it when he was in coz he'd draw animals you requested on the blackboard in a cartoon style and he was SO good at it.

It's a shame they never made a Raccoons tie-in game because the executable could have been WithUs.exe