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Blerkotron

@Blerkotron

User Blerk - gamer, retro gamer, coder, writer, ZX Spectrum fanboy, miserable old git. Best before 1990. May contain nuts. Mastodon: @Blerkotron@mastodon.social

UKblerkotron.itch.ioJoined November 2009

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A quick reminder that my (award winning!) spooky adventure game, Unhallowed, is still available for 'no money whatsoever' if you fancy a little 8-bit horror this evening. Available for ZX Spectrum, C64, CPC and Plus 4, or via your favourite web browser. 🎃 blerkotron.itch.io/unhallowed

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some parallax scrolling on #speccy128 running on stock zx spectrum 128k stay tuned \o/

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Jake 'The '80s Never Ended in My World' Rudh

On this day in 1986, #NewOrder released the single “Bizarre Love Triangle” “Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.”

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30 years ago today, Rage Against the Machine released their self-titled debut studio album featuring singles “Killing in the Name" “Bullet in the Head" “Bombtrack" and “Freedom"

Rage Against The Machine ★

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On this day in 1994, #Nirvana released “MTV Unplugged in New York” consisting of mainly lesser-known material and cover versions of songs by the Vaselines, David Bowie, Lead Belly, and Meat Puppets.

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Huge thanks to

for the non-Speccy 8-bit ports, and Chris Ainsley's mighty

@LearnAdventuron

for powering the HTML version.

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If everyone on Earth listened to this at the same time, i'm absolutely certain something very good would happen.

open.spotify.com

A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld - Live Mix Mark 10

The Orb · Song · 1991

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Club de Aventuras AD

Una prueba de que el CAAD tiene repercusión no sólo allende las fronteras españolas, sino también las del idioma español, es que el mismo

, autor de la aventura en inglés “Unhallowed”, analizada en el #CAAD56 por

, ha sabido de nuestra existencia. ¡Gracias!

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A lovely long review of 'Unhallowed' in this issue of CAAD, which I only just discovered! Thank you for the kind words, @caad_es! twitter.com/caad_es/status…

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Emmanuel Roussin

Unhallowed (2019), an adventure game for #Amstrad CPC by

(seen in

issue 56) genesis8bit.fr/archives/index Unhallowed (2019), un jeu d'aventure Amstrad CPC par Blerkotron genesis8bit.fr/archives/index

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A lovely long review of 'Unhallowed' in this issue of CAAD, which I only just discovered! Thank you for the kind words,

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¡Ya está aquí! ¡Ya llegó! Es el #CAAD56, listo para descarga...

caad.es/fichas/caad-56

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Jake 'The '80s Never Ended in My World' Rudh

On this day in 1959, Miles Davis released the masterpiece “Kind of Blue” featuring an all-star lineup of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and Wynton Kelly. There’s a reason why it is considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

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#OnThisDay 1985: Terry Wogan came face to face with Max Headroom, the world's first "computer-generated" TV host.

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ChinnyVision - https://toot.community/@ChinnyVisio

Wonderful Alien 8 remake running on my MSX 2.

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The Mojon Twins

Atención!!!

ha vuelto... Y cómo ha vuelto!! Zombis, videoaventura y #MK1 Próximamente en tu #spectrum

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The 40 Years of Commodore 64 Bundle: 26 items for $10.00 itch.io/b/1502/the-40- #indiegames via

#RetroGaming #C64 #SpecialEffect

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Christopher Cantwell

I interrupt this broadcast with a cyberpunk announcement of epic post-future proportions. I’m writing a new Max Headroom series for

. Starring Matt Frewer as Max Headroom. Produced by the mad minds of

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‘Max Headroom’ Series Reboot Starring Matt Frewer In Works At AMC Networks From Christopher...

'Max Headroom' Reboot Starring Matt Frewer In Works At AMC Networks From Elijah Wood

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I just backed 40 Best Machine Code Routines for the ZX Spectrum - 2nd Ed on

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40 Best Machine Code Routines for the ZX Spectrum - 2nd Ed

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum, we want to reprint our book, first released in 1983.

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Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye Ich do love Mondaye thou mayst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte breake No mirthe ys ther upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich do love

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Rabenstein #C64 Point and Click Edition, honoring the 40th Commodore 64 anniversary, is out! Play it with mouse or joystick, in both English or German language, featuring wonderful moody SID tunes. Boxed release on cart or disk can now be preordered! RT! 8bitgames.itch.io/rabenstein/dev

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Missed this yesterday, very sad news. RIP, Mr Grant. :-(

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We are devastated to hear the news that we have lost Alan Grant, a giant of comics whose wit, humanity, and talent made 2000 AD what it is. Our tribute: bit.ly/3B79wL2

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It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by

on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of

's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$

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Bee Friendly Brum

@BeeFriendlyBrum

Hello, please can you help us get this petition over 100k? Trying to #SaveTheBees by ending pesticide use in urban spaces 🐝💚 We've got just under 3K to go & we're handing it in to Birmingham City Council on Sunday

Sign the Petition

Save The Bees! Ban the use of Pesticides in Birmingham's Public spaces.

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Club de Aventuras AD

¿Qué aventuras veremos comentadas mañana en el #CAAD56? 😎 Jade analiza "9:05" de

, mientras que

se encarga de "Unhallowed", obra de

, y un clásico como "El cetro del sol" recibe un repaso por parte de

… de los que él sabe dar.

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yo who tf installed doom on the mcdonalds kiosk 😭

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New to

, The Classic Adventurer - Issue 06. Colin Jordan, Budget games,

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, Dave Hawkins and Mike Lewis's The Mystery of Arkham Manor on the cover. lulu.com/shop/mark-hard

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On this day in 1994, #Lush released their third studio album “Split” featuring singles "Desire Lines" and "Hypocrite”

Miki Berenyi and 4AD

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Mike - oldskoolpixels.com

It's time for treats at oldskoolpixels.com again! For the next two weeks, just enter the code COMMODOREBLOG at the checkout to get 15% off over 500 items. #c64 #zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bit #retro #sinclair #commodore64 #pixelart #retrogames #vectrex #atari #amiga #arcade

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I just feel humbled and glad to have been a part of it, I guess; to be able to see and understand the true scale of it. I only wish I was younger so I'd have more time to see where it all goes! But if I were younger I wouldn't have seen the origin, and had that understanding.

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sometimes just the simplest most random things remind you of that, like a cheap Chinese handheld containing half the history of gaming, or VR that used to be shit and prohibitively expensive now being cheap as chips and a million times better.

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in my talks about my time in gaming I use the analogy of it being like starting your career driving an ox cart and ending it in command of the Starship Enterprise.

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But then again it's been amazing to see and take part in such an absolutely massive amount of change in such a short period of time. Who will ever experience that again? It's been amazing to be present for so much of it, to see, experience and *understand* exactly its magnitude.

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I sometimes feel envious of people I know who had more conventional careers, where you could learn your trade and then live off it comfortably in years to come since it wouldn't change that much. We've had to keep running *so fast* just to keep up.

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Things are literally millions of times more powerful than they were when I was back at school, hacking on a Commodore PET. The experience of coding on a 1MHz sequential 6502 CPU in machine language is vastly removed from that of coding a massively parallel GPU.

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has there ever been a tech space that has expanded as quickly and as vastly as this one? Aviation, I suppose, encompassed in one person's lifespan the first powered flight and boots on the Moon. But this stuff, it's orders of magnitude beyond even that.

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I think my head would've exploded if I could have told my C64-era self about a thing like the 351V. That this cheap Chinese thing can contain and run everything you've ever seen or will see for years to come, all of it, effortlessly, on a "cartridge" smaller than your thumbnail.

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Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks, dies aged 79 theguardian.com/music/2022/may

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On this day in 1978, #Kraftwerk released their seventh studio album “The Man-Machine” featuring singles "Neon Lights" "The Robots" and "The Model"

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