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Nice!

A few more bits and bobs for the wall - some more giant carts and giant cassettes.

Dang! This is going to be great! Add to basket.

RIP The King of the PDA - such beautiful industrial design too.

Couldn’t resist - a giant cassette tape to go with the ocean cartridges!

Thought I’d do a Navy Seals cart as well - next to the actual size of a Commodore cartridge. I guess I should do a giant cassette now, in order to round off my C64 trophies!

I just backed Commodore 64: The Birth of a Cultural Icon on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

Another giant cart for the wall. Batman (by Zach Townsend) was the first proof of concept for Ocean’s multibank cartridges. I honed the cart software with this title to get the whole game into 128K. We upped the ante with the compression on Navy Seals to get loads of extra bitmaps in the 128K.

That’s the Ocean 64 cart modelled. Giant label made, now to print a mahoosive version of it for the wall. It’s been 37 years since Dave Collier and I created the multibank cart (the hardware was all Dave!)

Another giant 3D print of a DS cart this time for the wall. Thus far my magnum opus.

No idea which of my former colleagues at Tt did this, but whoever you are, I doff my hat to you - that is the best Easter egg ever. Seriously brilliant.

The MaterialX PBR specification is gaining formal mathematics! This proposal adds scattering equations for each BSDF, EDF, and VDF, so that renderers can implement shading nodes directly from the spec. Feedback and review from the rendering community are very welcome: github.com/AcademySoftw...

A few more bits of weekend printing…

One more to celebrate my old mate Colin Porch’s sequel to Head over Heels - Return to Blacktooth. Released last week by @thalamusdigital.bsky.social

A little bit of weekend de-stressing making some retro 3D prints. Proper therapeutic!

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This has been a labour of love, and a testament to the tenacity of Colin. The puzzles are properly devilish; it's such a great game, it had to get published. Bravo Thalamus for getting it out there. I sat with Colin as he poured line by line through the HOH source code, porting it to 6502 in the 80s

A stressful week, so spent the weekend 3D printing some little trophies - one for Atic Atac and one for The Sentinel.

Back from one hell of a weekend at Zzap Live 2026. Did a Q&A panel with a group of the old Ocean crew. Signed stuff, chatted through the night and had a thoroughly lovely couple of days.

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There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

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Nerd-gasm!

Martin Galway has graciously released the source code to his Wizball music and driver on github. Be amazed at how so much music was hand crafted into such a small space with no trackers / editors. github.com/MartinGalway...

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This is an excellent write-up. Add to basket.

This work is a thing of beauty - this is the gold standard dor reverse engineering. The stuff about the landscape generation in particular is wonderful. Mark is the GOAT. (C64 version next? 😉)

3D printed a little raked stand for the Star Wars minifigs.

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Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/

Mark's reverse engineering is second to none. The deep dives are a thing of beauty.

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Whoa there! That is not cricket. Automatically opting you in! Oh hell no!

Prepare to fall down a very deep rabbit hole! Great memories! Especially track "sparse42" on Conker's Bad Fur Day. I nearly burst a lung when I first heard @chrismarlow666.bsky.social do his turn as the Great Mighty Poo.

Rather chuffed with this print. Might do another one sliced up so I can use the original BBC colours.

The giant Mr Do! Cartridge on the wall in pride of place.

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The immensely talented artist Philip Castle died recently. He created the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket as well as album artwork for the many great bands. Retro gamers will know him for his work on the original Elite box artwork. RIP.

I made me a big 3D printed thing!

This was, and still is a genius idea, and now the patent has been placed in the public domain. Hats off to Eric.

Hen's teeth! Just ran across this advert from 1988 again - how times have changed! Jesus! I think Creations did the 8 bit ports of this (it was a decent little game to be fair).

Just digging through some old back issues of Your Computer, and came across this advert for one of the greatest pieces of software engineering ever... 1K Chess.

I remember typing this in from Your Computer. Genius.

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These articles are wonderful. An incredible programmer in Geoff Crammond, and the number one reverse engineering wizard, Mark Moxon. Some truly beautiful code in here.

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...and so, today, game #56 is out. Please enjoy - we're so very proud of it.