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Tim Holyoake

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RetroComputing. Liberal Democrat. Caterham 7 Owner. In remission from Mantle Cell Lymphoma. More often at https://oldbytes.space/@psychotimmy Blogs at https://z80.timholyoake.uk/ , https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/ & https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 1d

It all seems a little more intense than Ashbourne's shrovetide football!

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Liberal D66 party set to win Dutch parliamentary elections, exit poll suggests on.ft.com/47fiLIJ

Liberal D66 party set to win Dutch parliamentary elections, exit poll suggests

The far-right Freedom party is projected to come second

on.ft.com

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 1d

Totally stunned that the Pico MZ-80K won the "general" category in last year's #RetroChallenge! Thank you to everyone who voted for me, followed the project, etc. etc. etc. #RetroComputing

www.retrochallenge.org/2025/10/rc20...

RC2024/10 Results...Less than a Year Late!

With so many entries for RC2024/10 (a record, i'm sure!), and having already put in so much work during the month, I really let things slide...

www.retrochallenge.org

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 1d

Sorted out the display of the upper 256 characters today. Took longer to figure out than it should have ...

#RetroComputing #SharpMZ700 #Emulation

The upper 255 characters of the Sharp MZ700. Blue characters on a yellow background.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 4d

Top of the Pops (26th October 1978). Elvis Costello and the Attractions kick things off with 'Radio Radio'.

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 4d

Using my trusty Sieve of Erastothenes program plus some trial and error, it looks as if overclocking a Pico to somewhere around 210 - 220MHz will work nicely for the #MZ700 #emulator

#RetroComputing #Emulation

Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 5d

Progress with the Pico #MZ700 #Emulator. Colour output works & I have a reasonable USB to MZ700 keyboard map.

Next up - timings (can I really emulate a 3.5MHz MZ700 on a Pico or is a Pico2 required) & the banked memory implementation, completely different to the MZ-80A.

#RetroComputing #Emulation

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 6d

I've got an original and challenging opinion that you won't here anywhere else. It's that this is the best film adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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Chris Coghlan MP @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social · 8d

It’s outrageous that many clinically vulnerable people, including those who have motor neurone disease, are not eligible for free COVID-19 booster jabs this autumn. Last week, I spoke with BBC Radio Surrey and wrote to the Health Secretary about this.

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Chris Coghlan MP @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social · 8d

Please sign the petition to fund free COVID boosters for all vulnerable people this year: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters

'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

petition.parliament.uk

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 9d

The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it.

Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 9d

Looking forward to witnessing this madness for the first time!

Souvenir program for the Ottery St Mary tar barrels 2025. The cover shows a man engulfed in flames from carrying a lit tar barrel through the streets of the town.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 9d

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes

People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship

www.ft.com

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 9d

New from me: A Pico MZ-700 ?

z80.timholyoake.uk/a-pico-mz-700/

#RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ700

The Pico MZ emulator showing the boot screen. It is white text on a blue background and reads MONITOR 1Z-013A, followed by a flashing block cursor

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 9d

Ottery St Mary morning

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 9d

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 9d

New from me: A Pico MZ-700 ?

z80.timholyoake.uk/a-pico-mz-700/

#RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ700

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 11d

Then fix it.

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 11d

It's a start! Hacked the monitor into my mz80k/a code and it runs up. Now comes the painstaking stuff - keyboard mappings, colour, clock accuracy etc etc etc ... #RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ700

Sharp MZ700 monitor announces itself for the first time on my Pico mz platform. Colours are wrong, as is everything else, but it's a start.

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 12d

Just been searching out MZ700 monitor & graphics ROMs. Bitrot has set in on many trusted Sharp MZ resources, so only spammy download sites now claim to have them. Fortunately I'd downloaded the ROMs a couple of years ago, but it seems like a race against time to preserve what's left. #RetroComputing

Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 12d

Here we go again ...

#RetroComputing #Emulation #Sharp #MZ700

A screenshot showing the github picomz-80k repository with a newly created branch called mz-700-emulation - an autumn / winter project!

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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 13d

I'm thinking about starting on my MZ-700 emulator for similar reasons, but can't be bothered to move from the sofa at the moment.

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 13d

How it started vs How it's going.

More details: buff.ly/GbIKw4P

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 14d

Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 14d

The most interesting vote of the night imho and one that foretells a potential apocalypse in the suburbs of the south-east for the Conservatives. More liberal Tories go LD, more reactionary ones go to Reform.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 14d

Camberley West (Surrey) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 49.5% (+16.6)
➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New)
🌳 CON: 20.4% (-28.8)
🌹 LAB: 4.3% (-11.4)

No WPB (-2.3) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.

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