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YouTube video by LazarouDave Red Dwarf Chess Scene

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RIP Charles Augins 1943 - 2025

Series one is actually my favourite. Porridge, but set in space.

A dense, dense ad. Top right, the ZX80 itself, with small body and integrated chiclit keyboard. Left, a spiral bound book, "A Course in BASIC Programming, also featuring the ZX80. Right, an adult teaching a child to use the ZX80. Bottom right, an order form to purchase the ZX80 with a mail-in coupon.

The first personal computer for under $200.

Friday night on the Obsidian Arcade! Deathless Run attempts for Super Contra! Stream starts at 8:30 PM CST
www.twitch.tv/obsidianarcade
#retrogaming

Demoscene Report 6 August 2025 youtu.be/Dbv_50py1II

🎧 Streaming C64 chiptunes live on an original breadbin C64 w/ R4 6581 SID! Pure retro sound, no emulation.. just raw SID magic.

www.twitch.tv/coffeecuparc...

#C64 #Commdore64 #Chiptunes

Screenshot from the Dragon Quest demake, showing a dungeon surrounded by water.

Want to squeeze an 80s game onto a 70s console? Going live now on Twitch for another installment of the Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) fan demake on the Mattel Intellivision.
twitch.tv/RetroHomebrew

I have questions.

i know no one will care about this but BBS's aren't technically websites and therefore don't have to adhere to ID laws

BBS Documentary 20th Anniversary Fundraise Sale This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of th…

I'm closing up this "sale", truly the worst deal in DVD sales, early next week, probably Tuesday. If you were wondering if you still had a chance to lose $200 buying a DVD set, this is it. I'm down to a little more than a dozen, and they'll go into the vault.

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My new track just dropped 👾
Keygen vibes, tracker soul 💾
Patch your playlist here:
fanlink.tv/patch

Demoscene Report 30 July 2025 youtu.be/WY1dgBc_TY4

Playdate and 2600 (as in hacking, not the Atari console) on the same magazine rack? Swoon...

Screen capture of video game Lichen Warrior, with tall plants.

Going live now on Twitch for another installment of the Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) fan demake on the Mattel Intellivision console. PLUS, as a fun bonus surprise: Lichen Warrior, an RPG parody(?) with a philosophical twist, made in 1-bit with Bitsy by @adamledoux.net .
www.twitch.tv/RetroHomebrew/

Very disappointed.

Ok I’ve not been making as much progress as I would have liked on the tarot project. But here’s the next card I’ve been working on.

The Phreak.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

itch.io just quietly put up their new "Adult Content" standards: itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed Read the whole page. The endgame of puritans using payment procs to censor content is to ban everything but the most anodyne art from sale, SFW or not. To erase the line between fantasy and reality, to then silence real voices. No victim of trauma allowed to make art talking about their experiences. No one allowed to make art to put a spotlight on systemic issues with society. No one allowed to bring powerful people to task for their evil deeds. No one allowed to feature even the mere *discussion* of sensitive topics in their work. What puritan activists *say* they want is to ban "child abuse"; what they *do* is ban anyone from *talking about it*.

There are famous books regularly assigned to students in literature classes that would fall under this ban. *The Bible* would be banned from sale for featuring, among other things, sexual violence and sex trafficking. Hell, there are *children's picture books* that would be banned from sale because everything "animal-related" has been lumped in with "bestiality". Puritan activists don't want sensitive topics in art, because that would allow people to call them out for the acts of *real* evil they have committed. That's why they wield the global power of American payment procs to dictate what legal products can or can't be sold: because anything else would squash their efforts before they can start. And it's why we must put a check on that power: it is absurd for a single-digit number of companies in *one nation* to be able to decide what *the world* can buy.

Since the last post I wrote on this subject, there is now a page you can visit with details and resources on how you can get involved in protecting queer creators and sex workers from further abuse by payment processors forcing puritan policies on platforms that threaten freedom of expression: yellat.money Follow the guidance on that site, call the payment processors, and do everything else you can do as the page suggests to make your voice heard. Because as this new "Adult Content" standard shows, it won't stop at queer creators and sex workers. This puritan censorship initiative will affect *everyone*. We will make it through. We've done so many times before. But it won't happen unless we *fight*. Stay strong.

Screenshot of the website yellat.money, titled: "Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers! Tell Payment Processors to STOP!". It begins: "Get involved! Here are emails, phone numbers, petitions to use and tell payment processing companies that their policies threaten the livelihoods and safe spaces of queer creators and sex workers." It continues: "IMPORTANT: Wherever you vocalize your frustrations and concerns, be polite and chill when discussing in customer service lines or email inquiries. Do not harass or threaten individuals and workers. Please. If you're a Sex Worker, please avoid directly contacting the companies in question, as exposing details about your shop / services could result in them being deactivated by payment processors in question, especially PayPal and Stripe. Stay safe! When contacting Mastercard, do not let them direct you to their Concierge service." The screenshot ends on part of the site's list of payment processor phone numbers to call, including headquarters and regional phone numbers for Stripe and Mastercard.

My statement with regard to itch's new "Adult Content" standard as seen at: itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed, as an artist with work hosted on that site.

Go to yellat.money (pictured) for resources on fighting payment processor censorship!

Pyramidas, my new Amiga ASCII/ANSI thing! Watch it in full in the Impure#90 art pack: 16colo.rs/pack/impure90

Fibre: every little helps!

#BookSky

We had to code Teletext at school for our IT GCSE back in the day. That looks advanced beyond belief in comparison!!

You know you're old when you applying the pomodoro method to playing video games

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next: the evolution of the Speccy computer, now expanded into the world of the Sinclair QL, C64 and... More!

Funded in about 7 mins and 10 seconds! Next fans are just awesome! Thank you!!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

Take Man by 14M131C for the NEC PC-8001mkII type in game has been preserved by yours truly. Avoid a loan shark while collecting money on the streets to pay him back. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/07/t...

A screenshot of the no ice in California front page bundle showing it has made $37, 630 of its $50k goal

Might be a good time to remind folks of the No ICE in California itch bundle raising funds for the immigrant defenders law center (or you can donate to them directly) itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...

Grinding for independence... from the nasty Dragonlord.

Live now: join me on Twitch for my 11th session of the Dragon Quest/Warrior fan demake for the Mattel Intellivision.

twitch.tv/RetroHomebrew

There is a digital tiger passing through!
#asciiart #ascii #textart #textmode #bit #retrocomputing #ansiart #demoscene #typewriterart #art #digitalart #artwork #blender

They're active (in chats) on Twitch, if that helps.

RPG Design Zine Two by Nathan D. Paoletta Another cut-and-paste zine about ttrpg design

The RPG Design Zine Two is now available! This followup to the RPG Design Zine is 24 pages of all-killer no-filler game design approaches, tools and techniques cut-and-pasted from some of the best in the business, with my own commentary.

PWYW + DIY download

ndpdesign.itch.io/rpg-design-z...