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The year before I did my first one, was 2018 the first time you did these?

Please! Please kill it.

Nice, I’d not seen that before. Wasn’t there some connection between Christ and BoC?

I’ve been happy with Ecotricity for years, the bills are always quite reasonable even when there was that period when most other energy companies were having to hike their prices.

In spaaaaaaace

I don’t think that’s a palindrome though :)

God, that bloody Turnpike software haha

That I did not know! But then software development for me begins and ends in the '80s pretty much :D I never went into a career based around it. I just do the odd bit of PowerShell in my job when needed.

Homebrew Extra Retro Gamer 274 Creating a game for these old machines is a challenge. Creating something playable in just 10 lines of BASIC is a real achievement, which is why we concentrate on the BASIC 10-Liner competition for ou...

Some HomeBrew extra from @merman1974.bsky.social 's section of Retro Gamer magazine:

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The full interview I did for him regarding the BASIC 10 liner competitions :)

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

It's almost the end of #sharptember , so I'll finish with some screenshots of my game Minesnake on the MZ-80A. I've learned a lot since I made it, and would have done a lot differently now. But the concept is still good, I think. It's on Itch.io.

English version for the MZ-700 is coming on physical release at the end of the year.

Day 273(30) - As #sharptember comes to an end, a few last words. Remember, a Sharp isn't just for Christmas, it's for life. And like all good relationships you'll have your ups and downs ... 1/2

I’m actually not sure now! I can’t remember where I got the image from, I’ve had it saved for some time.

Not expensive to manufacture whatsoever :D

Yeah but it's no this...

#Sharptember A chance find amongst a bunch of tapes I won in an auction turned up something pretty interesting, a compilation tape of games written by Col Needham (the inventor of IMDb) and possibly his master tape from which he sold his mail order games. Here's his game "UFO Attack".

Obvs

#Sharptember If you replace the CG-ROM file in the emulator with the Japanese one you can play Japanese MZ games with the correct graphics showing. Here's a bit of Namco's Galaxian demonstrating the much coveted single pixel graphic character that was not available in the western ROM.

YouTube video by わくわくゲームズ | Waku Waku Games ロポコ for Nintendo Switch

This is awesome, Ropoko is coming to the Switch (and Steam) on the 9th October. It will include the English translation which I helped the author with :) As for the MZ-700 English release, this should be around or just before Christmas time.

Part 4 of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the MZ-80A games compilation tapes made by Knights is now available!

Wtf

#Sharptember The popular "Greedy Gremlins" game, this time for the MZ-80A. I recently rescued this from an official Knights tape - I don't think I realised there was an MZ-80A version until now! It makes use of the 80A's inverse display quite a lot.

I forget now but what gave you the idea to combine Nebulus and Chuckie Egg?! :)

Really this is awesome work though, love seeing each update :)