MarsFS
@8bitlegend.bsky.social
8 bit enthusiast and casual programmer. Creator of BBC Micro art programs Art4Eva and Telepaint.
🔊 Release v1.0 of Pyjamarama for Acorn Electron 48K (converted from ZX Spectrum 48K). Best experience is on a real Electron (with 16K SWRAM) or in my Electroniq emulator. ☕ Buy me a coffee if you like my work ko-fi.com/0xc0de 🕹️ More info and tape/disk images on github.com/0xC0DE6502/p...
ASCII Invaders (10-liner), an exercise in BBC BASIC code golfing. I enjoyed making stuff like this and should return to it one day. Inspect/edit the source code and play the game (Z,X,RETURN) via Owlet BBC BASIC Editor bbcmic.ro#%7B%22v%22%3...
CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳 github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware ! ....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Yle45, Yle Teletext’s 45th Anniversary (October 2026) 🇫🇮 #teletextart #callforentries #teletext #artistonbluesky #artistsonbluesky #pixelart #1bit #textmode #retrogaming #artist #demoscene #ceefax #videotext #tekstitv #tvtext teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent...
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Yle45, Yle Teletext’s 45th Anniversary (October 2026)
The world-renowned Yle Text was launched some five-and-forty years ago on 7 October 1981, which smells like a capital idea for another celebration of teletext art! We are asking for artwork in advance...
teletextart.co.uk
A reminder that Rob Napier's history of Acorn, the BBC and ARM is available to buy now! Do spread the word, as he's also donating a percentage of the royalties to various computing museums, including @tnmoc.bsky.social 😀 Link to order here: amzn.eu/d/00BQj8tz
VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED: How the British Broadcasting Corporation, Acorn Computers and ARM changed the world.
Buy VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED: How the British Broadcasting Corporation, Acorn Computers and ARM changed the world. by Napier, Robert, Napier, Robert (ISBN: 9781764460804) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
amzn.eu
Call for #teletext art entries! Valentine's Day on Yle Teletext. I'd *love* for you to submit something.🌹 Info: teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent... #pixelart #ceefax #callforentries #artistsontwitter #1bit #videotext #textmode
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Valentine’s Day 2026 on Yle Teksti-TV! Love Letters from Your (Teletext) Heart
The festival of love has arrived, dear teletexters! Springtime invites warmer days and the flourishing of flora and fauna, the season of “rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth” (Wi...
teletextart.co.uk
Experimenting with custom fill patterns in Art4Eva Mode 2 with colour cycling, BBC Micro
teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent... #teletext
CALL FOR ENTRIES – 2025 Teletext Advent Calendar on Yle Text
This year’s loading bar is approximately ten twelfths complete, so it’s time once again for the traditional teletext community Advent calendar! This will be our fifth consecutive annual festive projec...
teletextart.co.uk
QTeletextMaker v0.8-beta released. The Level 2.5 #teletext editor now renders DRCS characters and slightly improved diacritical'd G0 capital letters. Grab a Windows exe from the zip at github.com/gkthemac/QTe... (mind the SmartScreen warnings!) or compile the source on Linux with #Qt6 and CMake.
Teletext Mode 7 Messing around with frames and GIF import on Telepaint.
YAY! My game, "Zezito and the Lost Stars" was reviewed by the BrewOtaku magazine (issue #007)!! Have you played the game? @brewotaku.bsky.social #8bit #retrogaming #retrogamers #acornelectron #bbcmicro
Latest version of BeebEm available. Without such great work as this I don't think I'd even attempt any retro development as such.
BeebEm BBC Micro Emulator@beebem.bsky.social · 11mo agoBeebEm 4.20 is now available. Lots of new features and bug fixes, including: * FSD format disk images * Teletext adapter emulation * Disk and tape image icons * Tape and serial port emulation * Full screen mode bug fixes * Saved state files And lots more... Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/
It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming
My new version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite is feature-complete! Now for some testing. Here's the feature list. It’s big! Big enough that this is effectively a Compendium version of Electron Elite; to sit proudly alongside the #BBCMicro Compendia. 🫡 Not long now! #retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit
My favourite musician that ever lived just died 😭. Rest in peace Sylvester Stewart! I will never forget the first time I heard 'You can make it if you try'. It was one of the best moments in my life and I will never forget that feeling. Fly high Sly! #slystone www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-5F...
Electroniq WIP. New and improved version online. Now handles anything a real Acorn Electron can (famous last words). If you don't get a stable 50fps (looking at you Firefox) please try a different browser (or system 😉). Any issues? Let me know here or on github... 0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/
Electroniq
Acorn Electron emulator
0xc0de6502.github.io
After 10 years - and the reason I started my art and my art program to solve this - today I finally set out to do what I wanted - in code. A poster fell off the wall one day that I bought. As I sat on the bed looking at the wall I thought 'Could the Acorn GXR Rom re-create that?'. I have arrived.
