It finally arrived! Broken Sword reforged physical edition!

Building an #Amiga On-Rails #LightGun Shooter in AMOS!? youtu.be/mddraVZ_pZ0

I finally did a nail combo that I actually like! A (very) dark metallic blue base with a sparkly holographic purple on top!

I done a New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet! Y'know, to get in the mood x

It might be my birthday today but here is a present for all of you! A Special Cover Disk Face Off! We are checking out all 9 Christmas editions of the main Amiga Magazines. That meant 6 Amiga formats, 2 Amiga Actions and a Maverick One for Amiga! youtu.be/QWuIjeU9qlU

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.

Available Now, do you need some lovely non-holiday retro YouTube to hide and/or recover from the world with? Would you like it to feel like a real TV channel? With the co-operation of 30+ of the loveliest channels, this is Sub5000 TV. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Is it me, or does this read like a threat?!

A surprisingly productive weekend. Editing a 50 minute video (due out next week), did some work on the website, Had another trip to IKEA, Finished 2 games (both VR titles). And cooked some random crispy chicken and potatoes combo.

Out Now, for the #Amiga, #Santa's Present Drop 5 - The House of the Dead Bunnies! Played with a #MOUSE or #LIGHTGUN making this "Probably the only Amiga LightGun game worth playing!" robsmith-dev.itch.io/dead-bunnies

Today is the day, my birthday! My treat: 30+ minutes of Q's and A's and my beautiful face. Twice, if you count the portrait of child me! youtu.be/3sQKa_qNSJI

Still not quite used to getting up this early and getting the bus into town. But did get around to updating the nails. Soak at sunset! Not a colour I'd normally go for, but wanted a bit of a change. Or I'm sleep deprived.

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

Will hopefully be opening mine soon, so a nice look at what I will be getting.

My second deskmat has turned up, and this one is headed for the office. Had a lot of fun laying this one out.

After 30 years Settlers return to its home, with the release of Settlers 2 Amiga edition. But is it a good port, who is this for and what did they provide in the physical edition? Let's find out. youtu.be/cfA-gQnMMl4

Got a custom deskmat printed (120cm x 50cm) and I'm happy with how it turned out. It should make for a great surface for when I show the boxes and stuff on the channel.

Got way too much to do, but I want to spend all my time playing this!

Been lax with these updates due to moving and starting a new job, but here we go again. It's chipping, but this is Tidal Wave.

This beastie showed up in the post today, to get me pumped for prime 4. And it turned out to be much bigger then I expected!

Feet up for an overdue @gouldfishongames.com

It's been a busy month moving 400 odd miles, but more or less ready to start my next adventure next week. And any town that has a lemmings statue can't be all that bad.

I made a video, as I occasionally do. This one is about the world of email before we all started using Internet email, in particular company group mail. youtu.be/czpiHZPyxLU

Spent the day at the @computinghistory.org.uk at the retro gaming event exhibiting my A500+ And had a great day. I will be there tomorrow, and it's not yet sold out, so if you are in the area come along! You didn't even have to see me!

Alien Breed and its Special Edition were uniquely Amiga and Team 17. but what makes these games so interesting enjoyable? lets find out! youtu.be/S_co6lU6lZU

Rate my gaming setup.

It managed to arrive on just the wrong day, but a week later it's finally in my hands. Settlers 2 for the Amiga. Even if the only machine it will run on is my A4000 and it can still struggle!

Van mostly packed and just having my last Sunday roast in the area. As tomorrow, I get up very early to start the drive up to our new home in Scotland.

The perfect night to try out my new spooky #Amiga #halloween game GhostLight robsmith-dev.itch.io/ghostlight

Been busy organizing a move and not been posting much. But here is a quick one with the current nails, I'm sure it's going to get chipped to hell and back next week. This one is burnished bronze.

New movie review is up! This time I watched Stealth, from 2005c about a rogue AI-powered fighter jet that (predictably) goes a bit wrong, except instead of hallucinating fake articles, it starts picking its own missile targets. Oops!

It's getting closer and closer. We've got gaming on everything from oscilloscopes to top end 90s Unix workstations, exotic consoles and Japanese train emulators. Oh and LOTs of Chuckie Egg! www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Re... (Sat) and www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74909/re... (Sun).

If you like a bit of Yesterzine in your POW watch this club. Or something. Dudley of Yesterzine joins Bloggo for an informative critique of 4 Dreamcast Racing games youtu.be/dCMEjYLNRSs

Trying to work on a video and this lump jumps on my lap and starts purring away, wanting fuss. Wouldn't mind but it's not even my cat! #cat

Duke Nukem 3D, a game with a decent number of Add-On's Some licensed some not, and one that even got sued. And guess which we are looking at in this video. youtu.be/eSwvtGA7nbM

The Amiga had amazing original games, some got interesting ports to the PC Platform. And I decided it could be fun to check them out to see how good they were. youtu.be/DBN1xwbBelY

Forgot to post this last week, Latest nails are the horribly named "Royal Confidante"

Public Domain Magazine, the bible of free software for Amiga, ST and PC has never been scanned. Until now! We look at its complex coverdisk, how you got free software when the internet was only 3 months old and what connects this show and the magazine within a magazine. youtu.be/85sDuKq37JA

Been continuing with my crazy GBA Esp32 experiment. And made huge progress this weekend. 🧵

My current video using an esp32 might have bombed hard, but that doesn't mean I won't continue trying to do crazy things with them.

Recently I made my own controller, using the GBA as the base. and this is how I did it! youtu.be/7zsAm-uovJc

Of all the ways to advertise Quake, I'm not sure this would have jumped into head as an option. PC Format November 1996

My weird eye thing I mentioned the other day. Turns out a blood vessel in my eye popped and what I am seeing is blood! No idea how it happened, even the optometrist was baffled. It should fade with time, but guess who now has to see a specialist in a few months time.

Not sure if this is a sign of getting old or what, but I've suddenly gotten this weird spider in a web style floater in my right eye. It moves around with my vision as well, and has been persistent since yesterday evening. Got an appointment with the optometrist tomorrow.

Time to look at what happened to C64 games when they are ported to a system with twice the power! That's almost double! But do they double down or fold at the title screen? Watch and see! youtu.be/xKdU9t6T3Jc

At the end of 2004 the Playstation 2 was king. A warning to Sony though as 3 seemingly unassailable game series have challenges coming, but do any of them score a direct hit? youtu.be/zp7qJkn4G2w

It's a joke I've made every other time, so why stop now. "New glasses, who's this?"

Got a head full of hay fever and ache. So here are some Amiga games! (No idea of the link, but this is where my head is at).

Who's stupid idea was it to go out for a 6 mile walk today. Oh yeah, mine. Well listened to a chunk of an audio book and got a few views in.