Henrique Olifiers

A vibrantly colourful crt tv screen photo of ZX Spectrum bitmap artwork of the iconic bike slide scene from Akira. The bike is an appropriate scarlet red, while the city background is a riot of colour. The highway is a nighttime blue

"Kaneda" by Groogy (2024), a gorgeous recreation of the iconic bike slide from Akira on the ZX Spectrum in its standard graphics mode.

The compressed image data is encoded in line 10. The rest is a decompression and render algorithm.

Exceptional coding.

Yes, but better!

There are also amazing new games, king amongst them, Eye of the Beholder. Do check it out.

Rise of the Robots. Got hooked by the looks and great marketing campaign.

Plays like a brick on ketamine.

I top that by having a launch game on the OUYA: Deep Dungeons of Doom.

If you cry over buying one, imagine me thinking about how much effort it went into launching a game on it...

I played a lot of Phantomas... It's wasn't immediately hard, but it was hard nonetheless.

Dinamic had incredible games. Wish they had stuck around.

I can attest to the difficulty of Dinamic games as mentioned in that list.

But Army Moves was.much harder than Navy Moves. Both easier than Game Over, though.

Walking around Shoreditch is a good way to wind down from the whirlwind of the nonstop news cycle.

It's a *very* sticky tune indeed!

Blows my mind that someone wakes up one day determined to pixel paint tiles on the street to create a Bubble Bobble sprite for strangers to enjoy.

One of the many reasons I love London.

Please select #3 and let us all know what happens.

Not for Kempston, no. Unlike the other joysticks, it doesn't register as keys.

GitHub - mcphail/speccydev: Devcontainer for building programs for the ZX Spectrum and related 8-bit devices including ZX81 and Spectrum Next. Devcontainer for building programs for the ZX Spectrum and related 8-bit devices including ZX81 and Spectrum Next. - mcphail/speccydev

Hotfix release of my devcontainer for ZX Spectrum development, with the latest version of Boriel BASIC to restore builds for the Spectrum Next.

github.com/mcphail/spec...

#RetroGameDev #RetroComputing

If you get out of the AAA sphere and shift time from Blizzard/Bethesda/whatnot to indies, you'll find games are now only healthy but at their peak design wise.

I love retrogames and play them with gusto. But there are incredible new titles by the boatload on Steam and Itch.

Me and Chun sat in the Rain Bar in Manchester, both looking amazing, really, with cassette copies of Zub and 180 that I’d just signed for him. I forget to bring my copy of The Getaway for him to sign.

Had a lovely night out in Manchester with some old gamedev work colleagues, including the legendary @chunwah.bsky.social who got me to sign old copies of Zub and 180, presumably so he can get a couple of quid more on eBay?

Hunting down the Constrictor. Forcing a misjump to farm Thargoids. Equipping your first Military Laser. Learning to combat with the rear camera. Rescuing people from a Supernova and getting tons (literally) of gems (which you usually traded in Kilos)...

Knight Lore's main character transforming into a werewolf!

I really need to return to the ZX Spectrum Next, and spend some quality time with it. Preferably by playing something like Xeno Brigade Extinction... technoshedsoftware.com/product/xeno...

Maybe check S0 & S1 as they flag incoming CPU state into the bus. If the CPU is sending out the state but the system is not latching on S0/1's state, it would cause trouble.

It's an odd one. I never could get to the bottom of how it multiplexes its state into the bus... I *think* I understand it, but twice I failed to deal with it on an old VT terminal in need of fixing.

Oooooh! Finally this one gets the modern love it deserves! It's GTA before GTA, and 3D from the start.

On The ZX Spectrum Nextra number 13 is primed and ready to go out at 5pm today! Want yours? Sign up for free, link in bio!

I'll soon have a partner on my retrocomputing adventures...

She seems to be leaning towards a Z80 build.

Good girl.

And don't dare to move a picture about in a doc...

Well, yes!

River Thames cleaner but at risk from climate change, report says A report finds the river is in good condition, but experts warn of climate change threat.

Let's start the week with a bit of good news to offset the torrent of madness we've been subject to recently.

Feeling good!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feeling groovy? Is there a lamppost nearby?

RF will always be worse indeed, but composite definitely shouldn't be that bad!

I would suspect a capacitor or two somewhere not doing their job.