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Glen McNamee

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IT Service Delivery - Made on Teesside - Dad, Husband & Lung Cancer Survivor - Commodore 64, Chipmusic, Boro, Pico-8 - He/Him

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 1d

It's a bit Premier league vs National league. #engwal

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 1d

Are you going through dethroned withdrawal?

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 2d

Stolen Cold / Young Sheldon crossover special.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

It turns out it was COVID not the flu.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 9d

It would be a shame if I went on holiday to visit family, one of whom is undergoing chemotherapy, and I got the flu. FFS

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

If we are doing mother's favourite plus/4 games, mine liked Icicle Works.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 3d

On the Commodore 64's less well-known cousin, the Plus/4:

notebook.zoeblade.com/Plus_4.html

The Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore in 1984.

Inevitably, it has to be compared to the earlier and far more popular Commodore 64.

Hardware wise, it has more colours than the C64, but lacks sprites. Most disappointingly, it has no glorious SID chip.

Firmware wise, it has an office suite built into the ROM (just turn it on and press F1 then return), which was a great idea, badly executed. It also has an improved version of BASIC compared to the C64, and even a machine code monitor.

The Plus/4 flooded the Eastern European market, especially Hungary. Outside of Eastern Europe, it wasn't especially noteworthy.

On a personal note, it was my first computer. As a budding programmer, it was an ideal first machine. When it broke, I was given a Commodore 64C, in most respects a far better machine, and certainly a more popular one.

Plus Pack

The £100 Plus Pack bundle included the Plus/4 itself, the obligatory tape drive, a joystick, and eleven games: Crazy Golf, Exorcist, Fire Ant, Harbour Attack, Icicle Works, Invaders, Mayhem, Number Builder, Number Chaser, Space Sweep, and Treasure Island.

For the time and the price, some of these were pretty decent. Icicle Works was a Boulderdash clone with a few improvements; Treasure Island was a maze style game similar to Sabre Wulf; and Fire Ant was a matching-lock-and-key style adventure game. (I later made a short clone of Fire Ant for the PICO-8.)

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

Easy solution. Stop using it. Well maybe not easy, but you know...

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

I barely use Gmail anymore, but I'm having the opposite experience; it'll fail to flag the odd spam message.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

I think the Turrican 2 music is the highest standard, but yeah, it's probably too harsh to say the music is a big step down.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d

Worktunes are unfinished tracks.

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 4d

I can't overstate how disappointing this was. It came out of nowhere, which was initially a pleasant surprise, but then was a step back from previous two games in every way.

Manfred Trenz made Turrican great, but didn't get the credit. The people who got the credit made stuff like this.

CommodoreBlog🍂 @commodoreblog.uk · 4d

Turrican 3. Factor 5, 1993.
#Amiga #Commodore

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Davide Bottino @davesretroforge.bsky.social · 4d

🎉AVAILABLE NOW! Bubble Bobble C64 Remastered 1.0! ⚡️After months of pixel pushing, palette tweaking, and bubble-popping madness, here it is! 👉Download now: daves-retro-forge.itch.io/bubble-bobbl... #c64 #bubblebobble #commodore64 #retrogaming

Bubble Bobble C64 Remastered by Dave's Retro Forge

A graphically enhanced, fan-made version of the C64 game Bubble Bobble (Firebird, 1987)

daves-retro-forge.itch.io

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d

Shudder would love that.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d

Still not home. The train has been delayed now. 😭

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d

At Belfast International Airport, the flight home is currently delayed five hours. 😬

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d

Cotton Eye Joe

Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 7d

ALT VERSION:

Tweet from Lindsay King-Miller @AskAQueer

If you made a horror movie, what extremely upbeat pop song would you want slowed down and creepified to play in the trailer?

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d

At Belfast International Airport, the flight home is currently delayed five hours. 😬

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Schrodinger's Cat Burglar 😺 MIGW @abandonedsheep.com · 8d

This one's easy, right?

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 9d

It would be a shame if I went on holiday to visit family, one of whom is undergoing chemotherapy, and I got the flu. FFS

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halfordslane79.bsky.social @halfordslane79.bsky.social · 9d

@middlesbrough.bsky.social How has #Nypan been playing on loan from #ManCity

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 9d

Hey. I know the latest C64 universe posts on @c64news.bsky.social are poorly written AI gibberish. I'll remove them and future posts when I get back off holiday.

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 10d

Yeah. It's really been annoying me recently. I'm sure they weren't always like that.

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 10d

That's the third game in a row we've been lucky to come away with a draw.

Middlesbrough FC @mfc.co.uk · 10d

A point at home ⚖️

Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 12d

“I love carpets me"

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Schrodinger's Cat Burglar 😺 MIGW @abandonedsheep.com · 13d

You can do this in our game
#indiegames 😺🍑

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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 12d

I've noticed the further I get into a project, the more random its suggestions are. It was really shockingly clever at the start, not so much now.