I miss BBC microbot. With all this whizz bang stuff we have now it's the simplicity of it. 160 char programs. How did Geoff do this in just this code? There is hardly any code! They are all amazing programmers as far as I am concerned. It still inspires me to fiddle around with it.

New Day

I've been mucking around with AI and editing our Telepaint Teletext editor. I got it to edit the BBC basic code and add a robot animation. Before the AI would have failed miserably. I asked for a planet, spaceship,window and whacky robots. I would have had to import sprites before. Now it codes them

I tried that Meta Hyperscape thing. Amazing. Guassian Splats. What impressed me is that it capture outside the bedroom window - all in VR. How did it detect that space? Incredible. It reminds me of 'Cold Lazarus'. Memories and photos in VR. That series was ahead of it's time and was prophetic.

Is it me or is everyone skint already at the beginning of February? It was bad enough getting through January. I need to get some dentures for my back teeth and then the AI is zapping the wallet. But being able to chew food is the priority. Monster munch feels weird with no top left back teeth!

I finally got AMX 3d Zicon working. This one is the CPC version. I can't get the beeb one to work. Let me know if anyone gets that working. I am on OSX which doesn't help with emulation/AMX What a great program this was. So much fun trying to make a 3d shape on a mid 80s home computer with no Undo

Cursor AI is totally amazing. After hearing people talk about it and fiddling with it and giving up I can now understand why everyone goes on about it. It edits your code so all you have to do is prompt it. No more cutting and pasting. Wish I'd discovered this a year earlier! Check it out.

Been trying to write a 3d editor ....nothing too complicated I like A.I trying the Easter Island heads....teehee...it did the best it can but it's hardly subdivision modelling is it!

Oh god youtube is being flooded with Native Instrument's insolvency videos. "What it means to you". Dear oh dear. Clickbait crap!

If only A.I knew BBC basic really well. It would be so cool Having said that it's done a pretty good job of this however basic!

Well I'm not very enamoured with Xcode. What a pain in the bum to build on that It's so slow. Then I find my Ipad and Monterey is too old. Ok fair enough I am running an old mac and I can run it in the simulator. It's just seems very slow to build and run after using javascript which is instant

I met a delivery driver recently. It was a fascinating conversation. He had a good heart and was a cool guy. He'd lost 10 grand on crypto. Yet he still believed in crypto. He said to me I am poor anyway so what difference does it make. I admired him. He wanted to succeed. I wish him all the best.

Meta have done so much to advance V.R It's a shame to see V.R taking a back door now. I hope it survives as it promises so much and is amazing. Having said that, who thought it was a good idea to use a Quest for meetings? It's heavy enough on the head as it is www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon...

Don't ever stop being a hippie in the changing times...it's still in us youtu.be/BeJ3l_WwCXg?...

Just been trying out the Cherry B3. Sounds very nice to my ears. Think I prefer it to the competition. I know by b3's! There is a bundle deal on at the moment. To think you can buy a b3 vst sounding this good for 10 quid. Amazing. I owned a Korg CX3 in early 80s but this sounds much better

The Stylophone sampler looks cool. Sometimes you want to buy something there and then but it's annoying to have to wait. Finally get to try out Cherry Audio's interesting Additive synth Harmonium. What a beautiful looking vst. Cherry Audio make great vst interfaces. Arturia joint first....

Experimenting with custom fill patterns in Art4Eva Mode 2 with colour cycling, BBC Micro

They should have called it Storm Grotty coz that's what it was on my evening commute. I didn't see any flying trapolines or cows or even a bin knocked over

Elephant

Steam train

If only I could unlock the mysteries of Illusionist. It made such fantastic images. If A.I is good for anything then it's doing this kind of thing......reverse engineering. It's a time consuming old process though with a lot of trial and error.

Chat GPT crawls along nowadays. I guess everyone has the A.I bug

Tower Bridge. Not the Tower of London as I first posted You would think after 50 years of living here I would know the difference

Statue of Liberty

Acropolis

Ok. I have found David Hoskins. Interesting! People do stuff and never expect anyone is interested 35 years later in your work. But there is always someone out there - who is still interested in what you did and tinkers. That's why I say you never know how you can inspire in life.

Now I'm making progress with Euclid.....the next on on my target......Clare's Illusionist. I have to track down the author - David Hoskins. He also wrote Render Bender. What a fantastic program Illusionist was. Not easy to use. Fantastic images. No shadows. Fast Texture mapper....very unique

Alien

Space colony

So did anyone see Avatar? What was your opinion? Did you bottom numb?

Very impressed with Pebble at CES. They have such a great idea. The simple ideas are the best. A ring that has a year long battery life. It connects to Pebble 2( with weeks of battery life). It records your ideas/conversations (how you invoke it I don't know). Very useful.

Oui je t'aime Beach

Spiderman

You can't beat the look of Euclid and Arclight. The dithering and hues in the pixels. Man it floats my boat. Even back then there was something I liked about it and I appreciate it all the more now in our glossy sheen world of A.I

Garden

Used a bit of A.I for the background. Is that cheating lol Dunno. Asked it to do it in the style of the pixels. It looks fab with the Arclight render. Robots

Millenium falcon

Robots

This cold weather is enough to want to make one emigrate. It's the long hard January now. Everyone is freezing cold, skint and it's work work work. Roll on February even for a slightly lighter foggier day. It always feels a bit different when Chinese New year approaches.

Battlecruiser

Heath

London park

Trying some star wars stuff out It can't colour the objects yet....still working on that

Magic Forest

Wowzers. Just like I remember it. The beauty of it. Martian colony

Look how beautiful Arclight the raytracer is. Even back in 1989 I thought it was very unique. I still do to this day. I love it when a plan comes together! Superman

Whos the daddy!

I finally got there. After two years and non stop head bashing day and night. This is like Newton's apple falling from the tree for me. I've got the key to the kingdom now..... The 3d Euclid kingdom. Bring it on!

I am tantalisingly near to unlocking the secrets of Euclid