Theres Neo6502 WASM emulator already, wonder if Agon Light enscrypten one too ... would be cool to add them to my IDE as I already have assemblers for 6502 and z80, and there are basic tokenisers, so would need the C compilers. In some ways the Neo6502 shows what the C64U could be

After watching @chinnyvision.bsky.social about the commodore flip phone I decided to put my alternative C= phone idea down in writing :) retrogamecoders.com/if-i-designe...

New toy in the house, @xtool-official.bsky.social M2 inkjet (cmyk) and laser!

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Spent our 28th wedding anniversary in the Lake District where it was less hot than at home plus the pooch enjoyed a paddle. Reminds me of Kelowna vacations but much shorter drive 🌤️❤️

WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up)

Adding "fog of war" to my retro roguelike dungeon crawler It fits almost everywhere apart from BBC Micro (!?) - very strange, I think I might have to get my calculator out on that one ...

Here it is folks! Fresh out of QA, Infe2tation! Monte Boyd has been working hard on this one and it shows. More detailed graphics, amazing sounds, and SID music that plays great on the 6581 AND 8580 chips! Gameplay is tight. Have fun! #commodore64 #c64u #infe2tation #monteboyd

Next part of the programming Atari ST and Amiga with C/VBCC series retrogamecoders.com/st-amiga-vbc...

For the morning crowd, somewhere to hang out on your coffee/tea/smoke/hydration breaks:

Turns out sometimes you can easily do things in BASIC that C struggles with retrogamecoders.com/basic-versus...

"huge swaths of the US have been dealing with intense summers since forever" And therefore UK buildings, many of which are older than the USA has been a thing, are designed differently, hardly anyone has aircon ... and besides what do you want, a "we have miserable summers too" prize?

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Interested in coding software and games for retro computers and games consoles? I now have a Retro Game Coders channel in the Retro Software Discord server: discord.gg/eEsuHp3rYt #retrocommunity #retrogames #indiedevs #gamedev

It's time for the Summer Sale 2026! All my C64 games are 25% off. itch.io/s/193045/sja...

Turns out I had been using the wrong colour hex values for the Amstrad and had been blaming my compilation workflow. Still not the best colour choices but at least these are ones I *chose* badly ;)

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

Procedural generation working on ZX Spectrum, seems just managed to squeeze the binary in theory into 48kb system. Problem is, this is the bare-bones, no wiggle room.

This is the worst thing for a nerd-hoarder like me. I threw out *some* old internet magazines only to discover one of them was when my nerdy sci-fi fan website was reviewed in January 1997 and the wayback machine doesn't have it :( Also happens to be one that isn't out there as a PDF :(

The Key Difference Between Planning and Strategy https://www.chrisg.com/planning-vs-strategy/

Seeing Makerfield all over the socials today makes me think there is a new competitor to maker faire

Wow my website is in high demand! ;) (Same email, new 'company' and email address)

The joys of building a cross-platform IDE. ZX Spectrum C compilation worked perfectly for small programs but > 16KB started breaking down in execution (memory leaks probably). Getting close though, just not fixed today's lunch 'break' ...

This doesn't affect my feelings towards the C64U but does mean I am *not at all* interested in whatever comes next which is a good thing for my bank balance so I guess win?

They're using the Nazi LLM for weapons targeting aren't they? Where is Sarah Connor when we need her!?

Guess we find out in 5 mins Whatever it is has 5 lights ;) June 16th important? Hope it is not the C16U, that would just be a new case again. Commander X16 would be interesting ... Predictions?

7 Communication Mistakes That Can Derail a Product Launch https://www.chrisg.com/7-communication-mistakes/

New week, new email address I guess. 🚩 'your industry' oh yes what industry would that be?

If your favourite American food can be Mexican then my favourite British food can be Indian

Dragon 32 is fast becoming one of those “it’s fascinating because it’s bad but also charming” systems like the zx81. Never going to be a gamers go-to but, I dunno, I like it 🤓

Someone keeps offering to buy my website. One of those "we just need you to give us all your private and confidential details, logins, and a transfer payment ..." scams isn't it? No way on this green earth that this is legit.

Made some progress to my "not conio" library and Amstrad and ZX Spectrum now get full cross-platform retro roguelike treatment :) I definitely need better colours for the Amstrad version though! And Speccy is in 32 columns so a problem for hard-coded maps but when procedural won't be an issue.

Another new toy in the Garrett house 🤩

The best #C64 development tool on the Mac? I would say so! retrogamecoders.com/c64ide-review/

We're moving Super Mario Bros. to an agentic workflow. Rather than controlling Mario, you'll simply prompt the agent with something like "beat 1-1", and it will take direct control of Mario for you. This frees up more time for more important things like doing your taxes or being stuck in traffic

Wrote a program to simulate my physical dice designs and 25 rolled dice (with random rotation on corridors) works pretty well. There will need to be a rule for starting point and ending the current map etc but so far the generated maps are pretty nice already.

Is it still procedural generation when you roll dice by hand? Next step: UV printing all the sides and play testing

EufyMake E1 UV Printer review www.makerhacks.com/eufymake-e1-...

Are you architecting your own replacement? Is AI going to ‘happen to you’? https://www.chrisg.com/ai-replacement/

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

More test prints off the new desktop UV printer 🤩

You know what saves the most tokens? Coding your own programs and writing your own emails

Marvel Secret Wars comic cover printed on “Altoids” style tin on my Eufymake UV printer 🤓🤩

I see that guy who says controversial things for attention has been filmed saying something controversial for attention again.

Art by @steveogdenart.bsky.social on a Gameboy cartridge because I’m testing a UV printer 🤩

Inspired by @jimblimey.com I have been working on my telnet/BBS game. Got Star Trek working as first (quite big) step. Next up move away from infringing IP :)

Just published: "Trimui Smart Pro S​ Handheld Review Plus More Amiga and Atari ST programming in C". Check it out and subscribe to get everything I'm making. retrogamecoders.kit.com/posts/trimui...

Certainly seems the most vocal AI-sloppers are looking for validation otherwise they would keep quiet or at least have a little humility. Instead they are all "look what *I* did" not "see what this tool made for me" I'm not anti-ai btw, LLM tools have been brill for debugging and datamining for eg.

How does the Trimui Smart Pro S widescreen handheld console compare to the cheap and cheerful R36S? retrogamecoders.com/trimui-smart...