Conclusive proof that you can lump every terrible piece of game design into one package and still sell it for £7.95 to ZX Spectrum owners :)

A thoughtful post. Selling our country to AI companies is not going to bring wealth, employment or growth. Our governement needs to get a grip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Know thine enemy.

If you're trying out the Linux desktop and you're not using projectbluefin.io, you're probably holding it wrong. #Bluefin #uBlue

My ZX Spectrum devcontainer has reached v1.0! Featuring pasmo v0.5.3, sjasmplus v1.21.0, zmakebas v1.2b, z88dk v2.3, fuse-utils v1.4.3, Boriel BASIC v1.18.2, skoolkit v9.6 and much more. All the tools you need to develop for Sinclair machines in BASIC, assembly or C, in one place. #RetroGameDev

Nailed it.

Lovely to see a young @herring1967.bsky.social first becoming, then satirising, Rory Bremner. Pure subversion.

October 17th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=McB4...

Make a band singular: Joy Division by itself

What a lovely story.

New venue added! 🗺️ 🇬🇾 📍 St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana 📝 Built largely from local timber and consecrated in 1894, this enormous Gothic church was position... https://nerdydaytrips.org/daytrip/sa/gy/st-georges-cathedral-georgetown-guyana/ #NerdyDayTrips

I wish there was an XServer or Wayland compositor which ran as a VSCode plugin. If you know of any, please let me know.

New venue added! 🗺️ 🇧🇪 📍 Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog 📝 Quite possibly the most complicated (non-disputed) national border in the world. Enclaves, exclav... https://nerdydaytrips.org/daytrip/eu/be/baarle-nassau-and-baarle-hertog/ #NerdyDayTrips

Working on projectbluefin.io this weekend, here's a status update! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTi...

For my mid life crisis, I've just ordered a camera drone (Potensic Atom 2, since you asked). I decided to search bluesky for "drone" and, my goodness, that was a wholly different mid life crisis entirely. I'm off to apply some talc.

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tirelessly works to end male violence against women; the biggest scourge in UK society. She's been a target of right wing hate. Today the BBC ran a vicious headline about her at the top of the front page, before they switched to slobbering over Farage once more. Foul.

Between June 1983 and February 1985, fully 20% of the games to top the UK charts were by just one developer. Now I have reached their sixth and final #1, an example of a new genre of 3D platformer. My new post on Knight Lore, Alien 8, and the end of Ultimate: www.superchartisland.com/alien-8

I appear to have purchased a ZX Spectrum Next. Congratulations to the team for smashing their funding goal 10 times over! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

That's Baldur's Gate 3 finished. Polished it off in no time! Honestly, though, what a beautiful, beautiful experience. #bg3

Slightly diminish an historic website: XKLP

The @specnext.com team have smashed their Kickstarter goal. Final few days at www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... . I can't wait to get mine. With over 2 million quid in the pot and 6000 backers, it would be lovely if they'd open-source the OS. It is crazy that such a machine should be proprietary!

I've got mine! #RetroGaming

Slightly diminish a band... Pubic Enemy

I'm about a quarter of a century late, but Marion and Geoff is one of the best things to have ever been on telly.

Getting ready for the Spectrum Next :)

This sketch has aged well, wouldn't you say? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOC2...

Wordle 1,514 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close to @herring1967.bsky.social -like perfection this morning.

Sad to see so many big names in the ZX Spectrum world associating with Yandex and equally frustrating seeing such talented game developers who have produced some mind blowing stuff.

I've been a Project Bluefin user for 4 months. I love it. If you want to run Linux but are put off by the chores and plumbing, this might be for you. projectbluefin.io gld.mcphail.uk/posts/i-may-... gld.mcphail.uk/posts/how-to...

Quick post for everyone to re-share my Z80 shifts cheat-sheet. www.patreon.com/posts/z80-sh...

Yep. It’s CPC! Let’s go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

There's no point DM'ing me on here because I won't age-verify, so I'll never be able to read it or reply. Sorry.

If you'd like to try ZX Spectrum development, my dev container has the tools you need to get started in BASIC, assembly or C. Works in Windows, Linux and MacOS, and even works from your browser! github.com/mcphail/spec...

After a lot of rewriting, I'm back to the point where my game produces valid grids (I think). Next step is to make it produce _solvable_ grids in reasonable time Much harder! #ZXSpectrum #RetroGameDev #Z80 #RetroComputing

Working through the Boriel BASIC book. #ZXSpectrum #SpectrumNext

It's been a long time coming, but my Football Star Manager will soon be available for Steam. https://bit.ly/fsmsteam #KevinToms #FootballManager #FootballStarManager #KTFSM #FootballGame #SportsGame #FootballSim #SoccerGame #Steam #SteamGame #SteamRelease #ClassicGame #RetroGame

I've read and reviewed Next Tech: Get the Best from your ZX Spectrum Next by Simon N Goodwin. It is excellent. Go and buy it if you are interested in the work @specnext.com is doing. gld.mcphail.uk/posts/book-r... #RetroComputing

New blog post: I'm never going back to Matrix https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/ I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck …

I've read and reviewed Next Tech: Get the Best from your ZX Spectrum Next by Simon N Goodwin. It is excellent. Go and buy it if you are interested in the work @specnext.com is doing. gld.mcphail.uk/posts/book-r... #RetroComputing

Yay! #ZXSpectrum

Hurry up, postperson! #RetroComputing #RetroGameDev

For the ZX Spectrum generation, playing the rest of Mahler's first symphony was our equivalent of drawing the rest of the owl.

£14,010 pounds away from £1.5million!

Remember, any company set up to provide Age Verification has a pecuniary interest in using your data for their own evil porpoises.

Episode 60 of Linux Matters: Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework 🐧️🎙️ Martin overrides default browser behaviour, Alan automates GitHub using gh, and Mark creates a monster using Ubuntu Server and his Framework laptop!

I think I've taken my decompilation of Dominic Robison's Rainbow Processor demo for the ZX Spectrum as far as I can. Check it out at github.com/mcphail/rain... and let me know if you have suggestions or improvements.

Dear ZX Spectrum and Z80 chums, I've been working on a decompilation of Dominic Robinson's famous Rainbow Effects Processor demo from Your Sinclair. I can't get my T-states to add up. Can you help with my arithmetic? What am I missing? github.com/mcphail/rain...

Only around 300 backers needed to reach the stretch goal for the Sam Coupé core for the new ZX Spectrum Next from @specnext.com . Get ordering: we need this! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #StartTheCoupe

They're closing in on a million quid on day 1 of the campaign. Excited to be part of it.

Loving the stretch goals! #StartTheCoupe