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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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Yak Attack – Noooooooooo! (camera pan up)
Posted on March 5, 2006 | 1 CommentGah! I’ve just had a hankering to play Yak Attack and discovered that it runs *horribly* in Windows XP This is a Bad Thing(tm). Sadly, the source to the game was lost when we had a housefire and the only way to get it working... -
Lunar Jetman for Macintosh
Posted on September 27, 2005 | No CommentsThis is the Macintosh port of Andy Noble’s Lunar Jetman remake. It requires OS X. This game is completely free but please don’t cover mount it without permission. Download Here. Incidentally – I’m skint. Please consider making a donation of 5USD using the button below.... -
Jetset Willy for Macintosh
Posted on September 27, 2005 | 1 CommentThis is a Macintosh port of Andy Noble’s magnificent remake of Jetset Willy. This game is completely free, but please don’t cover mount it without permission. Requires OS X. Download Here. Incidentally – I’m skint. Please consider making a donation of 5USD using the button... -
Manic Miner for Macintosh
Posted on September 27, 2005 | 9 CommentsI’ve ported Andy Noble’s wonderful remake of Manic Miner to the Mac. You’ll need OS X to run this, but it’s ACEBEST. This game is completely free but please don’t cover mount it without permission. Download Here. Incidentally – I’m skint. Please consider making a... -
Games Development
Posted on September 19, 2005 | No CommentsFrom this section of the site, you can download the free video game remakes I’ve written. I haven’t done any new ones in quite a while, but all the old RetroSpec titles are here. Sadly, the source code to these was lost in a house... -
Sorry folks
Posted on February 8, 2005 | No CommentsI haven’t done a single bit of remake coding for ages – just got too many other things to do. This doesn’t mean that Dynamite Dan and Wizards Lair are off, by any means – they’re not. They’re just two of the many things I... -
Lunar Jetman, Manic Miner and Jetset Willy for MacOS X
Posted on January 8, 2005 | No CommentsHallo – just a quickie. My Macintosh ports of Andy Noble’s fab remakes are now available here. They should be up on the retrospec site as soon as I get a minute. -
Lizards – Remaking my own game?
Posted on December 15, 2004 | No CommentsI’ve just come across the source code for Linux Lizards on an old ftp site For those not in the know (i.e. everyone), Lizards was the first game I ever wrote. The timestamp on the source code says November 10th 1995 – 11 days before... -
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....