I keep thinking a lot about how it would be very useful to have a lossless but very flexible video format for old school computer / video game capture that supported resolution changes and interlacing for demoscene production preservation and game captures. ZMBV / FFV1 are close but not quite there.

Sad to hear of the passing of Moya Brennan - one of the incredible members of Clannad: www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

I can’t be the only one eagerly awaiting the next update from Reassembler on the Amiga Sonic the Hedgehog port… 😁

More incredible work from Ian Scott!

Before the hype dies, I just want to thank everyone who I got to meet at Revision 2026! I hadn't submitted a demo but was fully absorbing the sensations of the scene which really was something special. I was refining bits of my channel and promoting it a little bit. A recap video is coming SOON!

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Very curious!

I usually feel a bit meh about AY music but this absolutely oozes style, such great musicianship - give it a chance and turn it up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIir...

I picked up one of these and they're really neat! <3

I don't really post about hip hop but this 50 Cent diss by Papoose is relentless, excellent lyricism and that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucmW...

it's beautiful

I made a new old thing! Claude Code helped me update some ancient C for converting images to Teletext into modern Python and add a host of new preprocessing options. Consider this a beta test. Feedback welcome! huggingface.co/spaces/kiera... #teletext #bbcmicro #mode7

I only saw this recently - Doom on a Floppy (DOOF) - the first episode on one bootable floppy disk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3T... Github: github.com/fragglet/squ... Part of me thinks if Doom sizecoding became a thing and used something like QUOD's texture synthesis, that would be mad!

Meta Platforms feeds: - Fights in fast food joints - Slop / Brainrot - Rage bait - Thirst traps - Artists trapped in the content grind - Charlie Kirk memes Bluesky: - Cool decompilations of retro games - Amazing pixel shaders - New tracker music - Discussion of tech - Rational AI talk - Funny shit

Well, this makes total sense now.

I’ve once again relegated Instagram and Facebook to an old phone that stays at home now. Such hateful divisive platforms, I get bombarded with horrible content of all kinds and feel my friends are kept locked in their grief with unhelpful content presenting as justified or empowering. Enough! 😤

Another thing is when Eurogamer took a stance against Arc Raiders using generative AI the review got downvoted massively but then DF get the same when they endorse it - does seem a bit inconsistent.

Pretty shocked at the DLSS5 discourse - if they used a tech demo, not existing IP and dialled down the face tuning this would be much better received - and the abuse thrown at DF has been disgusting. It’s really not far different to RTX remix and ENB modifications but should be developer lead.

Let’s hope.

I felt for a long time that DLSS5 type tech was inevitable. I was impressed with the scenery lighting tbh but the faces do need work. Let’s see what comes next before going mad. All rendering is an illusion after all. When this is part of an artists tooling and workflow people may feel differently.

Put simply, the best fighting game of all time on the ZX Spectrum. What a spectacular port!

The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in. It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved. www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

There's a PlayStation demo CD with a restricted build of *Ridge Racer*. It's from 3 weeks before the final, making it some of the earliest PlayStation software. I patched out the limits to enable full access. There are lots of differences! 32bits.substack.com/p/extending-...

Is anyone I know here going to revision demoparty this year? apparently theres going to be a live coding strudel jam thing. I've never been to a demoparty before and I would have to try and get some days off work to attend, im super on the fence about going. #revision #demoscene #livecoding

High praise from DF legend John Linneman - now I’m interested!

LGR has a video out covering my #PicoIDE project and the ZuluIDE. We are officially in a awesome new era of drive emulators! youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk

Arrrgh seems like every music producer I like is buying into the low effort conversation starter short form video posting nonsense. "How fast should Drum & Bass be?" "Do MCs distract from the music?" "Do you prefer the build up or the drop?" "When did trance really peak?" thinking emoji face

Having more fun with Claude - had a server that an rclone mount stopped by OOM Killer and didn't come back up - pointed Claude at it and it found the entry in the system logs and proposed a mitigation strategy which worked a treat. The thing is, I'm still learning more when using this tool. Mad.

Can you hear the E-Werk calling you? Revision tickets are now available, get the details here: 2026.revision-party.net/blog/03-tick... Like last year you can book a campervan spot, the airport bus, and supporter tickets. Hotel info too: 2026.revision-party.net/blog/04-hote... #RevisionParty

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Sure am getting tired of seeing "ADHD" content depicting people with this condition as barely functional and often codependant. It's insulting and infantalising and I'm like, vicariously offended because this content is so annoying. Some of my friends have ADHD and they are doing well, y'know.

Still waiting patiently for Google Street View to interpolate their 360° photos using machine learning so we can glide between shots instead of the shoving transition. It's been done in research situations, why not do it live? Google Maps used to be hot for innovation, now it's just ads.

Currently trying to reconstitute the original hybridized.org site from the wayback machine with help from Claude AI. Managing to succesfully extract tracklists and cuesheets so far. Hybridized was a goldmine for progressive house and breaks back in the day, would be good to ressurect it!

Strong agree - I would have bought some of this kit over the next year as well. Very disappointing...

Well, this looks gorgeous!

Future Crew Second Reality (1993) ported to Javascript #Demoscene #FutureCrew #YR_1993 github.com/covalichou/s...

One thing I wish phones and tablets had was a one press shortcut to play content from streaming services from the home screen without needing to unlock. I find menu traversal annoying and when an operation doesn't have a privacy implication it'd be good if it was instant like an old TV.

Having watched this guys incredible, insightful, entertaining and articulate explanations of everyday technology, I feel his urgent and passionate call to oppose corruption and fascism in the US essential viewing for all. (Seek to 1:02:39). Hats off to you Alec, you're a hero for these times.

A great little video about the development of the Public Domain SID - looks like SID clones are just getting better and better, and amazingly you can buy one for €9! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTzn...

The world's biggest demoscene exclusive event is back! Of course I'm going - see in you this Easter!

Well, mind blown. I used Claude to port 8bitbubsy's amazing Fast Tracker 2 clone to WebAssembly in about two hours: rc55.github.io/ft2-clone-wa... File loading and saving works as well. This is madness.

Slightly disconcerting how accessible voice cloning is now!

More great reporting from Digital Foundry. Much as many outlets gripe over "fake frames", I really feel like frame interpolation is moving rapidly in the right direction - as ever a lot of it is down to implementation. Doom Eternal showed what technology is capable of in the right hands.

Much as I try to keep my postings apolitical, I feel very anxious about what is happening with America and Greenland. I hope stability prevails, this unfettered terror that Trump is wielding on the world and the US itself is horrific. The sooner this era is over the better.

Lovely interview with Norman talking Atari's, Brighton, dance music, pirate radio and more from the @theretrohour.com :) youtu.be/1-UOBjJjGuM?... <3

Finishing things up for #PicoIDE and it just about saturates the IDE bus in MWDMA mode 2. I’m pretty happy with this! It tests as fast as a 74x CD-rom drive which means there’s a bit more headroom in that mode but that could be the CPU on this K6-2 system being a bottleneck.

Really struggling to say anything good about Three at the moment, after a horrific ordeal trying to renew my contract - dropped calls, misrepresentation, overcharging, repeated correcting and painfully slow chat response, I can say they have become and unmitigated customer service disaster.

This weekend a contingent of UK Demosceners, families and friends took a trip to the @retrocollective.co.uk Museum and Arcade Archive - I have to say it was an absolute highlight and a great start to the year and I strongly recommend anyone interested to check it out! I'll do a write-up soon!

Early Access: www.patreon.com/posts/148476... Patrons are enjoying an in-depth preview of the new "Multisystem 2 Arcade" FPGA system. Support the museum and channel at patreon.com/theretrocollective and enjoy early access perks

I can't overstate, this has be one of the best ZX Spectrum games of all time, and this wonderful companion piece goes into detail on the intricate detail and artistry that bought this technical marvel to life.