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Mark-James McDougall
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Full-stack developer with interests in #retrocomputing, #emulation, and #hamradio. Based in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦

Blog: https://markjames.dev/blog
GitHub: https://github.com/markjamesm

Callsign: VA2MJX
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markjamesm.bsky.social
MusicSharp is an #opensource, cross-platform #TUI music player that I developed using C#. A fully standalone application (no #dotnet runtime required), it supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, & internet radio streams!

There’s still more work to be done, so feel free to contribute!

github.com/markjamesm/M...
Screenshot of the MusicSharp interface.
February 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Mark-James McDougall
pixelmusement.com
New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/ADZKPcsbOX0
Road Warrior / Quarantine II - ADG Episode 353
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February 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Do you like SimCity 2000? So do we! I'm pleased to announce that the tenth major release of sc2kfix is available with a whole host of new features and bugfixes, including FluidSynth MIDI output, SCURK functionality on Windows 11, preliminary modding support, and much more: github.com/sc2kfix/sc2k...
Release Release 10 · sc2kfix/sc2kfix
Soliloquy Yeah, I know, I said Release 10 would be out three months ago. I also said six months ago that Release 10 would have a full modding framework, but that's pushed out to Release 11, because...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
markjamesm.bsky.social
I’ve been developing an #emulator for the MOS 6502 and ran into a hardware bug that occurs when a page boundary is crossed during the jump indirect instruction.

Check out my article on the bug & how you can handle it when emulating!

markjames.dev/blog/6502-ju...

#retrocomputing #emulation
Comparing the output of my emulator to test data for the jump indirect instruction JMP ($70FF)
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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martin.kleppmann.com
Hosting a website on a disposable vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
markjamesm.bsky.social
Several months ago, I became interested in emulation, and it led to me developing Chippy, a CHIP-8 emulator written in C#.

Check out the source code on GitHub:

github.com/markjamesm/C...

#emulation #softwaredevelopment #programming #chip-8 #chip8
Screenshot of Chippy, a CHIP-8 emulator running the Timendus CHIP-8 Test Suite.
July 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM