Dom

Just released BeebEm 4.21. This fixes a bug with the tape sound emulation introduced in 4.20, another bug in the installer, and makes some improvements to the VIA emulation.

Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/

A science poster on pulsar positioning system and its use in the search for technosignatures

Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025

Rosewater, my Wild West adventure game, has been out nearly 4 months and has been very well-received!

But I also feel like it’s reached a fraction of its potential audience.

If you can spare a repost and help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated!

www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Here's me literally doing exactly that.

#StandingWithStephenColbert

Absolut-- WAIT A MINUTE

#8bit #gamedev #elk #retrogaming #indiedev
Hello everyone, it is already about two weeks ago since I released my game for the Acorn Electron, Zezito and the Lost Stars, have you played it? A nice weekend to all!

Are stickers illegal to put on things? It doesn't damage and can be removed...

When were people being forced to use people's preferred pronouns? Was this ever anything but common courtesy?

Good morning Bluesky ☀️🦋
from the Gulf of Mexico 🌊

Morning!

Had to share this one taken a couple years back!

While visiting Claude Monet’s house in France, I knew I had to capture it in infrared. It just felt right—an artistic take on the home of an artist who saw the world differently.

#InfraredPhotography

Isn't that how a jedi descends to the dark side, though? Perhaps we need an organised rebellion.

To those joining Bluesky following the TikTok shutdown, welcome!

Bluesky allows you to follow large groups of people at once with the Starter Pack feature.

Here is a Starter Pack featuring MeidasTouch contributors, hosts, and staff!

@bbcmicrobot.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
10 MODE 2
20 XM%=1280:YM%=1024
30 REPEAT
40 X1%=RND(XM%):Y1%=RND(YM%)
50 X2%=RND(XM%):Y2%=RND(YM%)
60 X3%=RND(XM%):Y3%=RND(YM%)
70 GCOL 0, RND(7)
80 MOVE X1%,Y1%:MOVE X2%,Y2%:PLOT 85,X3%,Y3%
90 GCOL 0,0
100 DRAW X2%,Y2%:DRAW X1%,Y1%:DRAW X3%,Y3%
110 UNTIL0

Thanks to you both for creating and updating a superb beeb game. One of my favourites back in the day, and it still looks awesome.

I have had a cold all year. I'm bored of being ill now.

The fact that twelve people from (as far as I'm aware) a cross-section of society convicted him based on the evidence presented to them confirms to me that two thirds of the electorate need to be provided with this information before the next election. Hopefully 45/47 won't be running, but still.

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

#jurassicpark #blender3d

It’s fun because if there’s an author who got AI exactly right, it’s Adams with the various Sirius Cybernetics Corporation devices. In his books AI is invariably a useless annoyance that is painful to interact with and everyone tries their best to avoid.

Höflichkeit ist wie Schnee – sie verschönert alles, was sie berührt.

Kahlil Gibran

YouTube video by LegalEagle I'm Suing Honey

See also here, Legal Eagle is suing them

youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY?...

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee The Honey Scam: Explained

It turns out Honey is a scam

youtu.be/EAx_RtMKPm8?...

BREAKING NEWS:

President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael J. Fox and Hillary Clinton.

Who agrees they DESERVE it. 💙

I'm pretty certain the same sorts of things would not have happened if Kamala Harris had won. She has integrity and sense.

Catching some winter sun in the Canaries

Driving for 8 hours with a trapped nerve in my butt is going to be interesting today.

I will consider this for next time, but it now measures how damp my basil plant is, and says "Moisture".

It took me far too long today to get my Arduino LCD display to show what I wanted. The link in the LcdBarGraph repository no longer works, the reference page is empty, and there is no actual explanation of the function in the repo, so I just ended up reading the sourcecode to see how to use it.

The one thing I think the BBC Micro should have had was 16 colours instead of 8 colours and 8 flashing colours. Whilst the machine was more expensive, I think having a better palette would have made a big difference. You can solve this by replacing the video ULA now: beebwiki.mdfs.net/Video_ULA

Beautiful Sand Dunes of Mars

100 million kilometres away 💫🩵💫😲💫😎💫

NASA