Living in the north of England I never thought I'd be checking my pond daily to see if a snake had taken any of the fish! Bloody great #grasssnake swimming in there the other day.

Rookery 1.0.1 is out — the macOS menu-bar host for a Gitea act_runner. Bundled runner updated to gitea-runner v2.3.0. https://twistedraven.net/news/rookery-1-0-1/ #Rookery #Gitea

Bizmuth 0.9.5-beta5 is out — our ZX Spectrum Next emulator + source-level debugger. Now with save/load states, much faster emulation, working DeZog (DZRP) debugging, and new SD-card tools. https://twistedraven.net/news/bizmuth-0-9-5-beta5/ #Bizmuth #ZXSpectrumNext #Z80

#Amazon uk deliveries are getting worse. I think I’m now done with them. Complaining does nothing.

Well that's a new one, just rescued a mole from the murder mittens of one of our cats. Never seen a live wild mole in the flesh. #cats #murdermittens #mole

Bizmuth 0.9.4-beta4 is out — our cycle-accurate ZX Spectrum Next emulator + source-level debugger. New: save/load states, re-runnable setup, faster interrupt-heavy code, and a swappable LGPL Z80 core. https://twistedraven.net/news/bizmuth-0-9-4-beta4/ #Bizmuth #ZXSpectrumNext #Z80

this is where they keep the Pratchett books, I assume

FantASM 1.7.5 — my cross-platform Z80 assembler. New: a data-driven memory model (page/slot directives), a paging-aware !test simulator, --ram device sizing, and an in-app update check. Plus a Linux ARM64 build. https://twistedraven.net/news/fantasm-1-7-5/ #Z80 #ZXSpectrum #retrocomputing #gamedev

Bizmuth 0.9.3-beta3 — my cycle-accurate ZX Spectrum Next emulator + debugger. New: in-app update check, ADP page-qualified breakpoints + headless mode, plus ARM64 Linux and portable Windows builds. Free beta. https://twistedraven.net/news/bizmuth-0-9-3-beta3/ #ZXSpectrumNext #emulator #retrodev

Bizmuth 0.9.1-beta2 — my cycle-accurate ZX Spectrum Next emulator + source-level debugger. Now emulates the 16K Spectrum; the ADP debugger gains async *stopped events, mem write and step-over. Free public beta. https://twistedraven.net/news/bizmuth-0-9-1-beta2/ #ZXSpectrumNext #emulator #retrodev

FantASM 1.7.4 is out — my cross-platform Z80 assembler. Bugfix round: cleaner --lsp output, out-of-range jr/djnz now errors instead of truncating, and the test suite grew 206 → 304. https://twistedraven.net/news/fantasm-1-7-4/ #Z80 #ZXSpectrum #retrocomputing #gamedev

I've released my new ZX Spectrum and Spectrum Next emulator out into the wild, it's been a long old slog, but I've finally got a beta version available to download and a shiny new website to boot. #emulator #zxspectrum #sinclair #spectrumnext #zxnext #specnext twistedraven.net/bizmuth/

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Homebrew Z80 and ZX Spectrum Next tools — the FantASM assembler, the Zinc language, and the Bizmuth emulator.

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Getting closer to having my ZX Spectrum Next #emulator booting correctly! Just the rest of the hardware to implement! #SpecNext #ZXSpectrum

I bought a thing #mega65

Looking for a pixel artist to help design some 8bit mouse cursors for a graphics editor I’m working on. #indiedev #request #pixelartist

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Wasn’t expecting this to turn up on a Sunday, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless. My order status hadn’t even been updated from confirmed, I had no idea it had even shipped. #c64ultimate

Sent to #whamhalla! Can we ban shops from playing music now? #whamageddon

Took the #SamCoupe along to the Lincolnshire #Amiga group meet-up last weekend. Quite bus and a couple of people said it was the first time they’d ever seen one.

In a company wide project kick off meeting and the term “AI integration” keeps sneaking in as a bullet point. Looks like business daddy has succumbed to the corporate marketing BS. #ai #yawn #CorporateBS

Thought I’d have a play and see what a #SpectrumNext version of Manic Miner might look like. Just a few rough pixels so I’ve got something to work with while I start a little coding exercise. Something to get me back into #z80 #retrodev #RetroGaming

Not impressed with the “pay us or accept that we will ignore your right to deny tracking” that is becoming pervasive around the web. I will not be held to ransom, your business model is broken and I will not visit your site again. #Enshitification #BrokenWeb #Privacy

Fuck you, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Hello old friend, it’s been a while… Decided to resurrrect my Amiga 1200/Blizard 1230 MkIV (68030,MMU,FPU,32MB fast RAM) It did have a Vampire 1200 V2, but I never got on with it

Oh my deity, the Windows 11 installation experience is awful. Dark patterns everywhere! I want to install an Operating System, not sign up for any services or be coerced into giving away my personal information. Give me the option to say “No” and stop with the “Maybe Later” crap #Microsoft #Windows

I'm going to petition social media companies to add an option to report a post for "Egregiously using 'of' instead of the contracted form of 'Have'" I'll go take my meds now... #GrumpyOldFart #Grammar #EnglishLanguage

Loving the new #JudasPriest album, #PanicAttack has been living in my head for a while now, but to hear it on #Vinyl is just awesome. #VinylRecord #HeavyMetal

Trying to work and Archer has other ideas #CatsOfBlueSky