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Tweetings- Question you don't want to be asked five minutes after waking: "Which recording of #Wagner's Ring Cycle would you recommend?" about 20 hours ago from web
- Night on the synth. I remember when I used to have nights on the tiles. 08:45:05 PM September 01, 2010 from web
- New blog post: Morphine in C - Ok, so driven in from the garden by a plethora of wasps and one annoying neighbour, I... http://ow.ly/18NFJh 12:32:25 PM August 31, 2010 from HootSuite
- Back to work today. It's just not right. 06:41:58 AM August 31, 2010 from web
- #korg microkorg is a wonderful synth. I'd have killed for this twenty years ago. Replaces a roomful of boards and patches. 05:58:24 PM August 29, 2010 from web
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Archive for October, 2004
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Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s Osama!
Posted on October 30, 2004 | No CommentsWell, who would have thought it. Three days ’til the U.S. Elections, Bush and Kerry are neck and neck, and whaddaya know – that Bin Laden chap pops up again to give any wavering voters a good ol’ chill down the spine, just in case... -
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Are we raising a generation of ‘young loners’?
Posted on October 29, 2004 | No CommentsBBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Are we raising a generation of ‘young loners’?: Television and computer games are creating a nation of young loners, a Mintel survey suggests. The survey found that more than two thirds of children spend most of their time... -
According to the BBC…..
Posted on October 29, 2004 | No Comments“Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses, a security firm has warned. The warning is being issued because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines.” Well, no surprises there. It begs the question – why do... -
Recursive Pachydermic Snufflings
Posted on October 28, 2004 | No CommentsEffie the elephant isn’t so much an elephant as an elefumble. The difficulty comes when her nasty habit becomes apparent. Effie is known to frequent the darker and danker regions of the less salubrious airports where she indulges in her passion for luggage snuffling. She... -
We-ell
Posted on October 27, 2004 | No CommentsOk, I’ve done some more modifications to the full screen rendering setup so that my framework uses quartz hardware acceleration for the 2D stuff. A couple of the guys at RetroSpec have suggested I use OpenGL for all the 2D stuff but, given that I’m... -
Christmas approaches from the east on black wings.
Posted on October 27, 2004 | No CommentsWell it does, and there’s no escaping it. Two salaries till the big day and one salary is entirely spoken for by estate agency fees :-/ The boys are keen on an import Nintendo DS, but that aint going to leave much room to maneuver.... -
Yak Attack
Posted on October 26, 2004 | No CommentsDownload An unofficial sequel to Attack of the Mutant Camels, Yak Attack has more in common with Dropzone on the C64. Graham Goring was so incredibly shit at this game that I released a special “Pansy-foo-foo” edition for him. This version is toned down quite... -
Splat!
Posted on October 26, 2004 | No CommentsDownload My first remake (unless you count a bloody awful game called Lizards for Linux. Splat! is a remake of another 1982 title, this time by incentive software. This was written after I first got into contact with Andy Noble and before RetroSpec was formed.... -
Pssst!
Posted on October 26, 2004 | No CommentsDownload Probably my fave This was my second remake – of Ultimate’s 1982 spectrum game of the same name. It was written for DOS, originally, but this version has been ported to run on any version of Windows. Graphics by the lovely Andy Noble, featuring... -
Meta-galactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time (no, really!)
Posted on October 26, 2004 | No CommentsDownload Another remake of a Jeff Minter game, with yet more John Blythe graphical goodness. In this one, you basically have to gob at spiders. It was written over a rainy weekend in C/Allegro. Should run on any version of Windows