@jamie-b-b.bsky.social
Mostly 8 bit computer stuff.
Get my latest ZX Spectrum game, it was released last night and it's a free download (128k mode is best) - stevetyson.itch.io/boni-2
04.09.2025 11:04 — 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
A lot of you retro gaming types will be jetting off on holidays about now, so why not load up your tablets with a 92-page ZX Spectrum magazine? Perfect reading to accompany your pool-side Margaritas.
Especially since it's just been updated to fix a couple of nasty typos.
breakspace.itch.io/issue-2
youtu.be/zk-ZY_gbsdc
#sinclairQL images made using dadither and stitched together into an animation
Well done, awesome job.
13.07.2025 08:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They look like art :)
13.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Rob!
13.07.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a time to be alive! Free mag by #zxspectrum
12.07.2025 16:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I just remembered, back in 2007 I made the title tune from this game into a dance track. I was dating a music teacher at the time and she dared me to do it. 😄
12.07.2025 08:29 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#sinclairQL art using dadither
10.07.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indie Retro News: Batman - Classic Isometric game by Ocean Software looks super on the Sinclair QL! www.indieretronews.com/2025/05/batm... #retrogaming #gaming #zxspectrum
11.05.2025 17:42 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
I'm currently trying to write a diagnostic ROM for the #sinclair #ql which replaces the main ROM and should give diagnostics out of ser1 even if the base RAM is missing.
Currently very rudimentary, should be useful for memory testing.
Collaboration for coding welcome.
github.com/stephen-ushe...
Explorando la "paleta de colores" del #SinclairQL, ¿quién dijo que tenía sólo cuatro? 🤓
03.01.2025 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Working on a new text adventure for the #sinclair #SinclairQL made using The Quill and Da Dither.
30.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cool sites in Dordogne this week. But it is HOT!
20.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jump into the definitive #8bit version of Manic Miner with the SAM Coupe version featuring on the cover disk with issue 9 of SAM Revival. 60 caverns! (Magazine now revamped in full colour with updates and extra content!)
www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm
#samcoupe #retrogaming #gaming #gamedev
I'm really getting into puzzle games on the Speccy this year. SkillTeam, Master Piece and Quadrax were all great & now this.
I've been playing it this evening and really enjoying myself.
It's based on a classic concept & well executed. I highly recommend it. 👍
Rush, my new puzzle game for the #zxspectrum
jbizzel.itch.io/rush
Rush, my new puzzle game for the #zxspectrum
jbizzel.itch.io/rush
GOOD MORNING
The Crips for eSims for Gaza Itch Bundle is live!
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
200+ video games, TTRPGs, zines, comics, & more
$16+ to support Palestinians surviving occupation!
On sale April 28-May 20
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SPREAD THE WORD!
Designed a rush hour type game
20.04.2025 22:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Top 64 #C64 Clones – No. 26
Katakis
Official R-Type licensees Activision took out a court injunction on Katakis back in the autumn of 1988 - no great surprise as it's incredibly similar to RT. A superb shooter with outstanding graphics & greater depth of gameplay than most blasters of the time.
I made an emulator snapshot that loads straight into the game if you want to try it. OzVM is a good emulator for the z88
gitlab.com/JB1zzel1/hou...
The House that Wept is a new text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. Because it uses GAC it can also run on the Z88. How cool is that?
13.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The House that Wept is a new text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. Because it uses GAC it can also run on the Z88. How cool is that?
13.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Work continues at Games That Weren't, and we have another huge discovery! The long-lost god sim Populous for the #NES has been recovered! A full conversion lost for 33 years - now you can finally play it today! 🌍🎮
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/03/popu...
In game screenshot of the game X-Com above, with a blocky screenshot showing the collision view below it approximating the solidness of the visual view
In game screenshot of the game X-Com above, with a blocky screenshot showing the collision view below it approximating the solidness of the visual view. The screenshot is highlighting a glitch where diagonals allow peering into closed areas due to a quirk of how collision is done
A graphic showing how a tree’s collision in X-Com is defined by vertical slices of predefined patterns
The 112 predefined pattern slices X-Com uses for collision
this is pretty cool. the original X-Com was a 2D isometric game but the collision system itself was 3D. objects in the world would have collisions defined by vertical stacks of predefined patterns. this allowed the game to do accurate line of sight and hit detection. very cool!
28.12.2024 15:47 — 👍 364 🔁 108 💬 7 📌 10Why are politicians talking about the destruction of Gaza as if it’s some random disaster?
They know the truth: they spent 15 months rejecting our calls to stop arming Israel.
Gaza must be rebuilt for Palestinians — and those responsible for its demolition must face justice.
Lovely ZX Spectrum graphics and just a few lines of Sinclair BASIC. Amazing program. Any Spectrum.
bunsen.itch.io/minesweeper-...
Genius.
08.02.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some really cool Sinclair QL demos coming out of Sweden. Wonderful stuff
08.02.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
