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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

Oh, you should do! It's a really interesting side hobby for techs. With your electronic skills you'd be brilliant at the hardware side of things.

Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

Honestly, I don't think they did. It would be too complex to get away with it. I think when Musk said he thought it was over on the night before it had been called he was looking at the prediction markets.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

Are you licensed?

If so I've just had 80m long wite my antenna out back up, I've not pulled a cable through to my office to connect it yet, but when I do we should try and see if we can reach each other!

Should be able to via WSPR at the least.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

I knew nothing about Linux, I just knew it was "Unix" and I could make it kinda look like the SGI's IRIX if I put KDE1 on it.

Slackware was the best tutor I had. I had to learn how to setup networking, X86Config, Sendmail and later Postfix, so I knew exactly how systems worked.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 2d

Look what the nice folks at the PRGE Intellivision booth gave me! Thanks Mark!

Broken original Intellivision and some games

Portland Retro Gaming Expo on Saturday Oct 18 2025

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

My first experience with Linux was with Slackware 96 that came in the back of a MIS Press Linux Programming book.

After that I ordered every Walnut Creek CD I could afford. I had all the Slackware ones and a load of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD ones too.

I can remember throwing them out :-(

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

I MANAGED TO SOURCE MY FIRST LINUX DISTRO!!!

I've been looking for this for so long! I'm going to be installing it on my 486DX4-100 retro build

I'm trying to build a full set of these, so if you have any other versions you want to part with please let me know!

#slackware #linux #retro

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

How was such a stupid, dumb man elected to one of the most important positions in the world?

This is such a multi-generational stain on the reputation of the USA.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 2d

I've got a new amateur radio license call sign! I'm no longer 2E0MLL, instead I'm:

M8MLL

I've changed as part of the Ofcom recommendation to 2*0 license holders.

I lose my M6CLL call sign as part of this. I should really sit my full license but I don't have the time to study for it right now.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 4d

I wouldn't say they're so bad...

#dogs

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Thomas Cherryhomes @tschak909.bsky.social · 4d

I keep trying to tell people about #FujiNet.
That it is a WiFi adapter for your favorite #Atari8bit, #Apple2, #ColecoAdam, #TRS80CoCo, #Commodore, #Atari2600, #AtariLynx, and #MSDOS machines, with more to come.

But word isn't getting out.

Can u help?

fujinet.online

FujiNet - The Future of Retro Computing

The Future of Retro Computing

fujinet.online

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 4d

The code for this example is in my Agon Light 2 development repo where I keep some stand along examples to refer to and for newbies to try and look at concepts in isolation.

This specific example is here:

github.com/andymccall/a...

#asm #gamedev #agon #agonlight2 #retrogamedev #z80

agon-development/20-spritecollision/asm at main · andymccall/agon-development

Coding examples in Z80 assembler and C for the Agon neoretro computer - andymccall/agon-development

github.com

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 4d

In attempt to finish my Pac-Man clone I've been researching sprite collision and bounding in #Z80 #assembly on the #AgonLight2 and I've finally managed to get it working.

I can now move this code into the main game and maybe start looking at getting some actual game play working 😀

#retrogamedev

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 6d

Oh gosh, I forgot about him...

Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 6d

What about Boring Professionals, the ones that dig tunnels?

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 8d

Okay, come on... THIS is funny 😂

#politics

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 8d

The Green surge is breaking limits! 😲

Together, we can make hope normal again! 💚

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 10d

Righto, finished off all the graphics primitives and clipping, for now. Still using 8-way symmetry for the circles, not the 4-way symmetry mentioned yesterday in a different thread. There's always room for improvement yet I'm happy with it as it stands. Next, need to Z-sort the objects in the scene.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 10d

Author and illustrator, Nikkolas Smith, draws 'Portland Frog'

'Portland Frog' by artist Nikkolas Smith. Unidentified person in a frog suit standing up to armed federal agents in Portland Oregon.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 12d

As sad as this movie is, I absolutely love the both the movie and book. The bleakness of survival and clinging to humanity, with the innocence and future of the son seem to offer hope.

If you've not read the book I really recommend reading it first then watch the film.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 12d

I'd like to share one of my favorite movies!

🎬 The Road (2009)
🎥 Director: John Hillcoat

Plot: In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.

⭐ My ranking: #62/100
⭐ IMDb ranking: 7.200000/10
🔗 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 15d

I just backed Our Fusion Retro Books 2026 Annuals - 4 in total! on @kickstarter.com

www.kickstarter.com/projects/zza...

#crash #zxspectrum #zxnext #retrocomputing

Our Fusion Retro Books 2026 Annuals - 4 in total!

Another year - some more XMAS Annuals to read!

www.kickstarter.com

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 17d

Over the weekend I got my Hayes Optima 28.8k modem's motherboard swapped out with a WiFi Retromodem from Tindie.

The board simulates a proper dial up connection, and all the LED's match up perfectly too. It's such a tidy setup.

Next up is getting FidoNet and QWK working.

#retrocomputing #modem

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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 19d

I just put out a very specialized tutorial for changing FPGA core on the F256K2 that will serve a specific tranche of the population, but I won't mind if you're curious to check out how easy it is to make this retro computer act differently at the flip of some dip switches

[F256K2] Updating your cores

https://c256foenix.com/ - Foenix Retro System web page Foenix Wiki: https://wiki.f256foenix.com/index.php?title=Main_Page FPGA releases: https://wiki.f256foenix.com/index.php?title=FPGA_Releases Flash firmwares: https://github.com/FoenixRetro/f256-firmware Balena Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io/

youtu.be

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 18d

Mostly for two reasons. 1) They'll make life better for rich people who own the media and 2) It makes the media jobs easier because Reform, like most right wing Governments, are completely inept, making the presses job easier, as the stories write themselves.