A day off from work so i've started doing some work on my new game Terratoka - a simple strategy game / think a combination of Risk and Archon. Here's the first try at the overmap, randomly generated but I might try adding some textures to it

Come explore our new exhibit celebrating 20 years of the Nintendo Wii this early May Bank Holiday! We're open Monday May 4th, 10am-5pm. Get your tennis arm ready for a game on WiiSports, or challenge your friends and family to a game of Family Ski! ⛷️🤾‍♀️

My new Speccy game, DunDeck, is available for $1 over on tonsomo.itch.io but you can now also download every version of Jurl and Mille for any price (including zero). I've also uploaded my MacOS screensaver that lets you use a folder of speccy SCR files, also free #IndieDev #RetroDev

I joined Patreons social media / not social media / social media thingy

A retro gaming incubator where devs, artists and musicians can just make and release retro games

Is it time I bring back the Pocket Pixel Design t-shirts? 🤔

How Simon's Cat came to be! Simon's Cat Origins Part 1

Got my registration documentation through for my manuscript. It’s not a silver bullet but it should give me something to fight with if the scammer does release my book on Amazon

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

SNES2Neo, my ultra low latency Super Nintendo to #NeoGeo adapter, orders are shipping! Grab one today for just $25 retrofrog.net/products/sne...

Started planning a new game, this time it’s a PC based simple strategy game merging Risk and Archon with some fantasy elements #IndieDev

anyway, here’s an old computer

Added external RAM support to my Super Cassette Vision toolchain, SCeVe. I've not got the hardware down yet but the resultant files will work in MAME codeberg.org/Jonn-reenthu... #RetroDev #IndieDev #OpenSource #RetroGaming

The Atari Jaguar Year One: youtu.be/mi7BjxbsFDo

A productive morning disassembling Super Cassette Vision carts. The 128byte memory limit is a real blocker and a few carts got around that by bundling RAM on the cart. So i'm currently trying to work out how they did that. I've got the shape of the solution in code, but once i've done that ...

Oh gods, Fallon?

I know I’m biased because I wrote it - but I love the fact that this happens when my laptop has sat for awhile

Chuffed to have had a small part to play in getting this shipped! 🚢

Youtube tells me this video is getting less views than normal. Good. Weeds out the fair weather viewers. ChinnyVision, sticking 2 fingers up to the Youtube ad click driven system. youtu.be/mRInhzqrnUI

Our lovely Jess, when she’s on the sofa she always has at least one paw touching me or Erica. The poor thing has epilepsy, arthritis and separation anxiety and is just the sweetest most loving dog I’ve ever met #DogsOfBlueSky

Another fabulous Software Creations lunchtime pub gathering today on a glorious sunny day. Excellent company, food and drink as usual. I shared the Chip Tune Player website with a few people who hadn't heard of it, including two who created some of the content hosted there. chiptune.app/browse

Alas, I can’t be there this year but I fully recommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in Retro computing

I made a screensaver for the Mac, so you can save a screen that no longer needs saving with screens from a Sinclair Spectrum tonsomo.itch.io/macos-speccy...

Tonight! Will this be the ultimate #ZXSpectrum type in stream? Lets find out 8pm BST over on twitch

A photo I took in Berlin last year. Art on art. ;)

Spotted in the wild: one of the floppy disk formats competing for acceptance and dominance in the early-mid 80s: CF2 3" floppy disks. 180kb per side, and more compact and thicker feeling than the 3.5" floppies introduced by Sony that became the defacto standard and future save icon and emoji.

I made a screensaver for the Mac, so you can save a screen that no longer needs saving with screens from a Sinclair Spectrum tonsomo.itch.io/macos-speccy...

Looking around in the code of Amaurote on the MSX, and spotted this. I wonder if @stepickford.bsky.social knows anything more about it? #MSX #retrogaming

Put all the dev tools onto a page rather than just relying on the drop-down re-enthused.com/retro-tools/

OUR KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!! - If you like arcade platformers please consider backing and giving this a repost! #biocreeps #nes #nesdev

A fond glance back at the ZX Spectrum + and what it meant to someone who owned one at the time. Oh, and a scam phone call given the contempt it deserves along the way too..

Jesus, sometimes it’s easy to forget what century we’re in. I’ve just half watched a video on the F1 iceberg and stopped when it got to a section called is Lando gay? For fucks sake, why does that matter? What business is it of anyone’s?

FIVE WEEKS 😱

There may be no #TOTP but there is a hastily put together ChinnyVision to piggyback on the birthday of the Spectrum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRIn...

By any chance has anyone tried creating a VR game in Godot and run it on a Pico 4? I'm getting a very weird syncronisation issue that i've been unable to track down - i've currently stripped my game down to one small room with nothing else and it's still happening

Copy That Floppy! 💾 Got an old floppy disk gathering dust? Bring it back to life at our Copy That Floppy Cafe event! 📆 Saturday 13th June 🕚 1 - 5pm 🎟️ Advanced booking recommended! More information and booking here - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/76911/Co...

Who needs your modern Playstation's and XBox's??!! When I have computers that can produce such master pieces as this?! Just look at it! I already feel like I'm at the bottom of the ocean, I don't even need to show a video.. You already know how good the animation will be 😳😁🐠

What with YouTubers, Collectors and specialist shops - I reckon there’s more people repairing spectrums now than in the 80s

It's more of an @ashens.bsky.social thing, but I kind of want it buyee.jp/item/jdirect...

This looks nice! tempest.homemade.systems

Happy release day to the Sinclair Spectrum, it would be quite a bit longer before I got my first, secondhand one, but that was the spark of my long engineering career

For those that don’t know - this is my wife, if you want to talk about filmmaking, theatre, dogs or sewing she’s the woman for you, not so much retro stuff unless you limit it to Pac-Man or Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast

I went over my content and realised I didn't have a playlist for French computers, so I made one. It's mostly about the EXL 100 because I have a deep love for that machine www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_zF... #RetroComputing

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

I decided to upload the early build of Jurl for the Super Cassette Vision. This should definitely be considered a prototype, it's quite unfinished and a bit unstable. But it shows you can make games using SCeVe tonsomo.itch.io/jurl-super-c... #IndieDev #RetroDev

Well, I guess my book is getting nicked. It's basically impossible to use Fiverr now without getting scammed in some way. I hired an editor from there, they had decent enough reviews which looked real, they gave me good intial feedback and then last night actually delivered on the job.

As the Amstrad Mini video just popped up on the re:enthused random video post, I really should work out why my PS2 Keyboard design didn't work, it was intended for a follow-up video where I made something closer to an actual Amstrad Mini

I think this is ready for manufacture now. It might work

Jesus Christ with the ‘but what abouters’ on this SNK thing. If you’re making excuses like ‘well America is pretty evil and I buy stuff from there’ to make yourself feel better about buying a fucking toy that directly funds a murderous regime then you’ve already told me who you are.

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...