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Mostly 8 bit computer stuff.

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Mark Moxon@markmoxon.bsky.social · last wk.

Two years ago I released Elite 3D - the #BBCMicro classic, in anaglyph 3D (for red-and-cyan glasses) But I failed to give the project a repository, so here it is, only 22 months late: github.com/markmoxon/el... So you now can see every change I made to Elite to drag it into the third dimension 🚀

GitHub - markmoxon/elite-3d: Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite

Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite - markmoxon/elite-3d

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Robert@flatduckrecords.co.uk · 2w ago

Here look, I’ve coaxed SAM Coupé into running SCC’s Small Computer Monitor, and Microsoft BASIC (lifted from the RC2014 ROM). It doesn’t know about SAM’s screen or keyboard (etc) so communication is over serial. (It’s easy enough to output some text to the LCD though)

Photograph of a television screen. Text on the screen in black-on-white, reads “1) MicroSoft BASIC” and “2) Small Computer Monitor”.Closeup picture of SAM Coupé with serial interface and LCD attached. Text on the display reads “MICROSOFT BASIC ON SAM COUPE”. Photograph of a laptop screen. The running program is a terminal, running Tio serial terminal emulator. The information listed shows we are connected to USB serial, and the output is being generated by SAM. Microsoft BASIC is starting up and we’ve typed in a short program. The program accepts user input and displays it on the attached LCD.Another picture of a laptop screen showing a text terminal, this time showing Stephen C Cousins’ “Small Computer Monitor” running on SAM and connected over USB serial. Text on screen is a listing of the SCM commands.
IndieRetroNews@indieretronews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Indie Retro News: Return to Blacktooth - Spiritual successor to ‘80s classic Head Over Heels is coming May 4th for both Amiga and Atari ST! www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/retu... #retrogaming #amiga

Return to Blacktooth - Spiritual successor to ‘80s classic Head Over Heels is coming May 4th for both Amiga and Atari ST!

Return to Blacktooth - Spiritual successor to ‘80s classic Head Over Heels is coming May 4th for both Amiga and Atari ST!

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 3mo ago

A Japanese developer has created a Chrome extension called Cat Gatekeeper that superimposes a big Ginger/Orange cat on your screen if you send too much time on social media. I have a real one that does that, and he doesn't limit it to social media. Buzz has interrupted client calls before now.

0xC0DE@0xc0de.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Acorn Electron Prince of Arabia WIP. Testing a few more movements. Now using an extra 16K RAM bank (auto-detected) for part of the large amount of sprite+mask data. Foreground tiles are working as well. No collision detection or map awareness yet

The Loud Scots Bloke@loudscotsbloke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who needs your modern Playstation's and XBox's??!! When I have computers that can produce such master pieces as this?! Just look at it! I already feel like I'm at the bottom of the ocean, I don't even need to show a video.. You already know how good the animation will be 😳😁🐠

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RISC OS London@rougol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's really amazing is that we went from simple 2D platform games like Chuckie Egg to 3D space exploration, trading, dogfighting Elite in less than a year, *on the same hardware*! elite.bbcelite.com

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES)

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES), with more than 100 deep dive articles explaining how every aspect of this iconic game works...

elite.bbcelite.com

Keith Stuart@keefstuart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Robert@flatduckrecords.co.uk · 4mo ago

Just for fun, I made a SAM Coupé disk for Go-Go Bunnygun. It’s a neat self-contained 48K Spectrum game so all it really needs is a few bytes of machine code to shuffle SAM memory into a suitable configuration (screen at $4000, game at $8000).

Photograph of a blue 3.5" floppy diskette, the label is hand written and reads “Go-Go BunnyGun!”A photograph of the BunnyGun splash screen displayed on a CRT telly running on SAM Coupé. Also pictured is a lurid green, pink and yellow joystick and several floppy disks.