Work has been keeping me crazy busy. But had a nice surprise today at an event hosted by the National Edge AI Hub at @newcastleuni.bsky.social They have a small display of computing history and I was delighted that my dear Oric-1 features!🤓🤗 #Oric-1

I have once again created a charity Retro Computer calendar for 2026!! Last year you helped raise £44 for charity by downloading my calendar. Let's try and beat that this year!! 🙏 Thank you!! loudscotsbloke.itch.io/retro-comput...

Tetris converted from dflat to C using OSDK toolset - now that's much smoother! #mos6502 #c-programming #retro-coding #retro-computing youtu.be/cZ3usNDNKP4

A new video showing tools to allow Oric to play Protracker 3 files in the background from C language. The Oric has a decent sound chip, I think it does a good job here, and now super easy to add high quality tracks to your games! youtu.be/tL4VNIIHSW4

Woah, my uni mate Stu (met him in 1989) came round this weekend with photos from back in the day. Thought I would share this one (late 1990 / early 1991) of him playing on my A500 (with A590 HDD). Looks my version of Tetris which I wrote in C. #amiga #a500 #tetris

Interesting to see different C compilers for the Oric🤓

Programming in C for the Oric is possible thanks to OSDK! Here I ported a program from dflat (see elsewhere about this) to C. Despite my handle, I do like C - learnt it back in early 1989 on my Amiga A500. As we know, C is still used extensively today! youtu.be/wLsLQ_LsYGU

Curious about the #SAMCoupe? The quirky British computer I've been developing on for 32 years! www.samcoupe.com Want to help support what I do? I don't do Kofi etc but grab a badge, keyring or try an issue of SAM Revival mag! Helps put a few quid in the dev kitty! www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm

I've modded my homebrew - too many peripherals makes it unstable I think. So no more real time clock, but kept the 6551 ACAI for serial. This video shows a custom file transfer protocol to get files from the PC onto the homebrew! youtu.be/ms-w9NC0ubs

It's been ages since I did anything with my 6502 homebrew computer, so here is a video about benchmarks against classic machines from back in the day - always a controversial topic!😂 #homebrewcomputer #mos6502 #basic #80s #6502cpu youtu.be/pQFLyB10Uj8

Always nice to receive videos like this from friends 🤗🤓 #zxspectrum #thehobbit

Ah, after ages thinking about it and feeling flush as I sold a few things on ebay, decided to scratch this nostalgic itch! Feeling like 10 years old again thumbing through this amazing book🤗 Wish I had bought it when it sold for £2.95 back in the day!

The amazing Electroniq from @0xc0de.bsky.social just keeps getting better and better. Here you can see the secrets of Apache Canyons 50fps gameplay (double buffering) via Electroniq's new "view RAM as pixels feature"

Great weekend with old and new faces at the 2025 retro computer festival in Swindon. Thanks to @heredragons.be, @shortcircuit.org.uk and everyone involved in making it happen. Look forward to the next event🙂🤘🏽

End of an era, alas. Though C64 goodness continues.

New video! First of a two-parter (please don't ask when part 2 is coming, I'm not sure yet!) youtu.be/LAZnyBm-M8c

Quick video of some copilot experiments to see if I can generate some 8 bit graphics for my Oric.. results are variable but not wholly unusable. Good to know that even if software engineering is obsoleted by copilot, it might not replace my retro-programming fun!😆 youtu.be/Vf9Gvi1Y3II

Another 42 year vintage new old stock. Tape is being loading for the first time ever. It worked sort of.. I had to fix a syntax error of a 1983 BASIC program I'd never seen before then try again! youtu.be/ASAP1GSV6H4

I bought new old stock Oric software off ebay. So here we have a 42 year old set of tapes, loading through a 42 year old tape player, into my cherished Oric-1 which I've owned new since 1983. For me the result is kinda mind blowing because it actually worked! youtu.be/4QyK8Ecp6k4

Oldish video, but on this day of all days, has to be done! 😅 youtu.be/Ha38_PDSJbE

Today’s #RetroTrio offers you‪ the #‬BBCMicro Model B, #Sinclair #ZXSpectrum 128 and #Commodore #Plus4. ‪Which will you keep, gift to a friend and delete forever? #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames‬

Day 92 - #retrorandom - Seeing this beast is always a highlight of any retro festival (this was from Cambridge in 2024). It belongs to @6502nerd.bsky.social and although it might look like an explosion in a breadboard factory, it's actually a working (and rather powerful) 6502 based system ... 1/2

Thanks for the plug Tony! Looking forward to showing this mess of wires at the festival and very much hoping the kids keep their fingers away 😳😅

New blog post and a look at What Micro?’s fifth anniversary issue - tantobieinternettattler.blogspot.com/2025/03/maga...

A quick Oric and dflat update - my Tetris in dflat is now running PT3 mod files in the background. The game is very slightly slower with background music but I think the overall experience is improved due to the audio. Some nerdy memory dumps also shown🤓 youtu.be/w9TSx_pyq_I

Might pop over to the Northwest Computer Museum this afternoon to get away from it all.

Here is my new Mattel Aquarius 10 Line game! Written for this year's competition #basic10liner check out my 10 line version of Bomber! #mattelaquarius https://buff.ly/4k2kEwQ

Happy valentines to the longest relationship I've ever had ❤️ Joking but not joking 😂😂 #valentine #Oric-1

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Of course I would agree with this opinion! 🤓🤓

I continue my long awaited next entry video of my THINK C series for old black and white Macintosh programming. Today's topic: flickering and tearing, why? and how to fight it! youtu.be/3SUgT83VTWU

A homebrew breadboard computer, running a homebrew language (dflat) with which I made a homebrew version of Tetris..💪🏾💪🏾 Old news - new in 2025 is that with the ability to play pt3 chiptunes in the background (NMI) using shadow RAM, Tetris has decent music!🎵🎶🎶🤘🏾 #8bitmusic

Atari all the way, then take your pick!

Mistigram: somewhere between the extreme settings of the sit/stand desk is a secret optional 'dance' function that it seems the programmer's office manager didn't spring for. This ##ASCIIart animation is by @Joninscii, and was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection.

New video - I converted a Protracker player to my homebrew computer. It runs through a 50Hz interrupt (non maskable, for reasons) and uses RAM banking so regular programs can keep running as normal. Chiptunes have a lovely 80s charm, I think! @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social ☺️ #chiptune #8bit #homebrew

gonna stream in a few minutes! we're doing chip reverse engineering: gate arrays! www.twitch.tv/tubetimeus

Oh, just spotted possibly the first follow from an only fans bot😔 I hope this is not the start of a deluge, bots must be outnumbering humans on the other place.

Thank you Kevin for the shout out! Means all the more to get a nod from a veteran games dev from back in the day 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Brand new year, brand new #Elite deep dive! It's the most comprehensive comparison ever published of all the different ships in Elite: elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/c... This is my 120th Elite deep dive article. There are more to come... #retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #c64 #nes #8bit

Happy new year nerds😊 I wanted to share a new video with you showing some very recognisable tunes playing on the Oric using dflat. Hope it brings back memories!!🎶😎 youtu.be/5-6Wb0_E7q8

Hope being good all year rewarded with an Oric LOCI device for Christmas. If you did get one, then I recommend dflat for LOCI - an advanced BBC BASIC-like language for the Oric now super easy to use thanks to native LOCI SD card support! youtu.be/kh5h8KwNI7I

I finally got around to creating a simple static website with most of my free games and tools. Play my games online by clicking on the game's image, or visit the corresponding GitHub page. It also lists most of the places you may find me online 😎 0xc0de6502.github.io

Found a nice playlist of Oric related stuff (no affiliation)- enjoy!!🤓 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hello folks. Following on from the LOCI expansion for Oric video, I have create a version of dflat for LOCI which uses the LOCI APIs for native access to the USB storage. This means you only need LOCI to try dflat on your real Oric computers😊 youtu.be/wnVvGiYzTro

For the ones interested, the source code of the game is regularly updated on github.com/Dhebug/Encou... It's an unholy mix of C, 6502 and pre-processor based scripting system, but it kind of works. 😅

Acorn Electron 'Chuckulus' WIP !! Two things..... 1) I had planned for lifts, then totally forgot about them.... just started putting them in ! 2) I really should setup my videos to capture from electroniq (WIP) by @0xc0de.bsky.social , cos it's marvellous !

Big shoutout to Rumbledethumps for the RP6502 Picocomputer which formed the starting point for LOCI and that interface! And for the tremendous inspiration his work and videos had to make me belive this was possible. Highly, highly recommended! picocomputer.github.io

Come on Steam, I'm busy debugging a memory stomp bug, don't stress me more! 🤪 Also, yes I checked, it's not 9:00am in my time zone!😅 And since they tell me I need to market it, there it is again: store.steampowered.com/app/3319780/...