I can remember when we'd go to the park with the children and take a bucket and spade or a ball. Now we have to take this.

My children have these toy PMR446 walkie-talkies. We have three of them. Recently the blue and green one wouldn't communicate with the other two. Time for Dad to investigate. 🧵/1

Finally - the behind-the-scenes story of @BBCClick.
These are just a fraction of my fondest memories of the prog that was such a big part of all our lives.
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We have a couple of these toy digital cameras. They take terrible photos and videos and print out on thermal paper, and the children love them (also because they play Snake). This one broke today. Time for daddy to fix it. 🧵/1

My childrens' model aircraft use these tiny coreless motors. I wondered what was inside a worn-out one. 🧵/1

Graphical version of Impetus is now playable on the BBC Micro, though there's still work to do. youtu.be/jPlgj_LknpE

#8bit #gamedev #elk #bbcmicro #retrogaming
Zezito and the Lost Stars
Get it on itchio:
👉https://iapetus2019.itch.io/
Please let me know what you think! If you find any problems please contact me as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Progress on getting Inufuto game "Impetus" running on the BBC Micro in graphics mode 5. To make it fit, code is all in a sideways RAM bank, level data is in normal RAM, so there's 34K to play with instead of 19K.

Anyone here enjoy the Inufuto 8-bit games, ported to zillions of platforms? I've just got the Cate toolchain running and have used it to pointlessly create a version of the game "Mieyen" which runs in Teletext mode. youtu.be/ldf3Warq1go

I've just pulled this 13A socket apart to see why a plug won't go in. It's in a room used by guests. 🧵/1

We have these JBL childrens' headphones with a "volume limiting" feature. The trouble is, it just means they're really quiet. Too quiet to hear on an aeroplane. Let's sort it out🧵/1