Graeme C.

First ever showing of a Magenta Next and Dreamtime Monty in the wild at Crash Live! 2025 #zxspectrumnext #zxspectrumnextgames #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Yep the bloat is bad. I tried rejoining last year, hit the "verify your identity" straight away. Glad i didn't as i got the "your information was hacked" email last month.

There is a discord bridge plugin. not sure how useful it is. probs better to dual run initially and hope people try it

no panic, im going to join a few public rooms and get my head around it. currently testing a Gnome client called Chatty , and apparently thunderbird email works with it too.

I got this error MatrixError: [403] You are not invited to this room.

I need to give this a try, been meaning to for years. What client are you using?

We ❤️ the #ARCADE We have made the world's only all-in-one #MiSTerFPGA JAMMA Arcade system.

Multisystem2 JAMMA boards are built, tested & working well. We will have more details & specifications next week.

Working on the enclosure design now, here are the JAMMA boards next to a few iconic machines

What's New Wednesday! Another round of new games for retro systems. I'll be playing them all for the first time live on Twitch.

8pm UK twitch.tv/charliefar

Tada!

I want to love Star Citizen but i gave up on it years ago.

Recently I've got really addicted to Egosoft's X3 games. Took me a long time to "find my feet" with them, but once I got over the initial learning curves they are really in-depth and chill offline games to play.

What's New Wednesday! Today we have an exclusive demo of Boni in Bat Hell 2 on the Spectrum. Plus - Outrun GB (GBC), Umi Bombs (C64), O (Spectrum Next) and much, much more!

8.15pm UK twitch.tv/charliefar

I switched this off months ago. It was driving me crazy the amount of cpu use and hard drive space being sucked up for games I play occasionally.

As much as I love steam and all they have done for linux gaming, I always end up back on local GOG installers

yep same error for me Nivrig. i then tried updating the tbblue_loader.rom and it just give a white screen.

Cspect works quite well with the latest distro

last i checked (in november) it hadnt been updated to support the new 24.11 distro, hence me recommending the included one to hitch. now you mention it though ill have a look ...

oh @retrostreamers.com worth noting , if you get in a mess with Zesarux (likely if your switching configs/machines). - you can reset it to defaults by removing the user config file, which is a hidden file in your home directory ".zesaruxrc"

yeah confusing at first. it goes back to before it was "the next", it was a board called TBblue by Victor Trucco.

youll notice in the Zesarux 12 ubuntu release archive there is a tbblue_loader.rom and tbblue.mmc the autoconfig points to.

Recent zesarux (im using 12)setup is easier than it used to be (it even ships with a small harddisk image)

In the menu, select Machine/vTrucco-FB Labs
The submenu should show either TBblue or ZXNext (same thing)

it will then offer to Autoconfigure the SD image. Agree to this and use included

Heads up - Aleksi just released a port of Ultima I for the Vic-20!! ❤️#vic20 #ultima #retrogamedev #gamedev #ports #commodore

This is Doman , and i guess his husband. A lifelike portrait, probably made in deluxe paint by a 5 year old

DOMAN!

🔴 LIVE – Wing Commander III: Part 5!
More dogfights. More drama. And the fate of humanity still hangs in the balance. FMV legends, Kilrathi threats, and tactical chaos—come hang in the stars!

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#WingCommander3 #RetroGaming #TwitchRetro

That's because you have ordered two.

I feel you missed a trick here, not putting in a "c u NEXT tuesday" joke

I am so glad the Next is getting a C64 core, removing any need for me to buy your product.

That's the Spectrum Next - a product with over 7000 backers and £2.5m raised for the third run alone - as opposed to this childish grifter running a vanity project, appointing an actor with sexual misconduct allegations made against him to the board & delivering nothing tangible yet.

Piss off.

It's the final hours of the Spectrum next Kickstarter, so what better time to reveal that Roguecraft will be coming to the machine next year!

Back it here: thalamus.link/specnext

#RetroGames #SpecNext #Roguecraft #Chickun

Doubtful, but if they hit 2.5 million thats 1000% funded, which would be nice.

I just chipped in my contribution. I was jealous of your purple.

Glad your getting one! I genuinely think you'll love it.

I am tempted to get a ks3 and keep the ks2 as a spare. Figuring the purple will hold its value even more than the classic colours if i ever need to sell one.

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy

YouTube video by THQ Nordic Sacred 2 Remaster | Announcement Trailer

@beanhed.bsky.social Sacred 2 remaster in development!

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C64 core running on a ZX Spectrum Next KS2 displayed on a VGA and HDMI monitor sitting side-by-side

Oops wot? A C-SixtyNext? Sacrilege or just a way to play Commando? #zxspectrumnext #c64 #retrocomputing #fpga

The #BSG38 stream is now LIVE!

Day 1 kicks off with SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom!

👉Streams👈
www.twitch.tv/bsg_marathon
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Check out today's lineup below and share the hype with #BSG38

🗓️Full schedule🗓️
bsgmarathon.com/schedule