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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 02/10/2026

Steam Fall sale is ON! Too brain tired after Nighthawks launch to do a proper marketing for this right now. In the meantime, I will have blind faith that public desire for our games transcendes the need for me to tell everyone to buy them. There. Nailed it. store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...

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TubeULA @tubeula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New version of Atari Battlezone for the Acorn Electron is now available with support for: - Mini Plus 1/Pitube 1Ghz ARM "mathbox" copro - POKEY 4 channel audio emulation - New service menu - Improved 3d pipeline Find this and my other releases at: tubeula.pages.dev

Atari Battlezone floating text from attract mode.

Acorn Electron with Mini Plus 1 attached with an installed and configured Pitube copro.

Disc catalogue of the Atari Battlezone ssd ready to run the game from the command prompt.

Playing the game, approaching enemy missile on course to collide with your tank.

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Stefan (dadbod games) @dadbod-games.com · 14/08/2026

I.T. Never Ends is OUT NOW. Fix cables. Filter spam. Debug packets. Manage 60+ deeply suspicious coworkers. Try not to let HR worship the printer. 100,000+ words · 100+ endings · hand-drawn corporate horror It's a video game, about it support. In hell. Kind of. store.steampowered.com/app/4225400/

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026

"Nighthawks feels carved from Vampire: Bloodlines' strongest bones." -Steam Hype www.steamhype.com/news/2026/09...

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Narrative RPG 'Nighthawks' Feels Carved from Vampire: Bloodlines' Strongest Bones

First impressions after a few nights in the undead city of Cradlebridge

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The Icon Bar @iconbar.com · 08/09/2026

Avenger release completes the set of Code the Classics Volume 2 conversions www.iconbar.com/articles/Ave... Jeroen has completed his project to port all the games from Code the Classics Volume 2 to RISC OS with the completion of Avenger.

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Avenger release completes the set of Code the Classics Volume 2 conversions

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Andrew Oyston @andrewoyston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One’s buttocks made it on to the local ITV news! Also, Tanfield Railway is cool!

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 www.theregister.com/software/202... Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online <- by me on @theregister.com

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Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70

Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online

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lbrty-games.bsky.social @lbrty-games.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have big ambitions for this new game: -a deductive point-and-click -set entirely in Italy -heavily inspired by true crime #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #adventuregames #pixelartㅤㅤㅤ

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic www.theregister.com/personal-tec... Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives <- by me on @theregister.com

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LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives

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Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

had enough, wrote some stuff newsletter.hitpoints.co/385-fallout/

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CaptainD @captaindisaster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A reluctant space hero. Alien worlds. Plenty of terrible decisions. 😄 Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots is 75% off during the Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1298280/... #SteamSummerSale #RetroGaming #PointAndClick #IndieDev #PCGaming

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Save 75% on Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots on Steam

A comedy sci-fi point & click adventure game made in the style of the early 90s classics.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/06/2026

So it's official. A legendary VFX wizard has passed away. 😞 Thunderbirds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Aliens, Space Truckers, Moon Zero Two, Dragonslayer, DragonHeart, The Neverending Story... Brian Johnson has brought many sci-fi & fantasy dreams to life.

For alien (1979), Brian Johnson carefully works on a detailed, intricate miniature spaceship model (USCSS Nostromo) using a small tool under studio lighting.

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The Icon Bar @iconbar.com · 29/05/2026

May 2026 News Summary www.iconbar.com/articles/May... Some things we noticed this month. What did you see?

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May 2026 News Summary

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The Icon Bar @iconbar.com · 26/05/2026

WROCC Newsletter Volume 43:01 reviewed www.iconbar.com/articles/WRO... After a year-long break, WROCC magazine has returned with the first edition for Volume 43.

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WROCC Newsletter Volume 43:01 reviewed

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

35 years ago, the much-anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog rolled into Mean Machines' office, and lo. There was much celebration and elbowing each other out of the way so we could play it. An overnight sensation who felt like he was here to stay. And decades later, he's still a star.

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0xC0DE @0xc0de.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Clever trick on the Acorn Electron. Never saw it before (or perhaps I forgot). This is Palace of Magic 2016. Screen mode 2, with a nice centered viewport and HIDDEN DATA all around it. Accomplished by making colours 8 through 15 black and encoding your data in the lower 6 bits of each hidden byte

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Postmodern Adventures @postmodernadv.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Here are several adventure games made in Spain. Some of them have already been released, while others are currently in development. Long live adventure games!

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RISC OS London @rougol.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next Monday, 18th May, we are very excited to be joined by Jim Mitchell to hear the largely untold story of ARX and the Acorn Palo Alto Research Centre rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/ind...

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RISC OS User Group Of London | Meetings

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Dionous Games @dionous.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One day left. Uncle Lee's Cookbook hits tomorrow and the kitchen is NOT ready. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3777930 GOG: www.gog.com/game/uncle_lees_cookboo… itch.io: dionous.itch.io/uncle-lees-cookbook #indiegame #pointandclick

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Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 11/05/2026

What if the Acorn Archimedes had its own Star Fox? Wing Star is a 90s 3D demo that pushed the system in impressive ways, blending ideas from Star Fox and Afterburner. You can try it yourself too at Games That Weren't.

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Snuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

CHUCKULUS for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro.... Download or play in browser: github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Coffee (no milk) welcome: ko-fi.com/snuggsy187

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Tony Warriner @tonywarriner.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It's gonna be a good one!

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RISC OS London @rougol.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Tomorrow evening 🙂

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Sixtus Flaming in the Far Reaches of the World @sixtusflaming.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Since March 2020 we've been banging our heads in the wall to create the demo for this amazing game that'll take you back, and FINALLY that blasted door is caving in! We're soon releasing a build for trusted testers and the public release is on the horizon after the summer. Exciting times!

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Over on X someone’s created an AI persona called Fia Quinn, there’s even a crypto called FIA$. Nothing to do with Old Skies, but just goes to show, never check your Personic profile.

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Andrew Oyston @andrewoyston.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In the Shadow of the CPC www.kickstarter.com/projects/edi... I’ve just backed this enticing book!

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In the Shadow of the CPC

The Legacy of Amstrad Games

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Archive Magazine @archiveriscos.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Files to accompany the 'RISC OS and Forth' article in the latest issue of Archive Magazine are now available to download. www.archivemag.co.uk/2802 Archive is the magazine for RISC OS users, available in both printed and digital formats. #riscos #raspberrypi #acorn

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Treasures beyond measure. www.requiemcafe.com commissioned a tiny OtGW game for a Halloween event last year, got this wonderful stuff today. 🧡 @patrickmchale.bsky.social signed the DVD insert & sketched inside, @forkfrenzy.bsky.social's art is on the mousepad, Heather Hermann did stickers/keychains!

Over the Garden Wall DVD, with signed insert!

Inside the Over the Garden Wall DVD case, with a scene of Greg and Wirt in a forest, drawn and signed by Patrick McHale!

Over the Garden Wall Requiem Cafe mouse pad, featuring art by Levon Jihanian. It depicts part of Wirt's bedroom, with an old school PC with a CRT monitor, The Crimson Diamond's launch screen is on the screen. There's a Tiny Star poster on the wall, a clarinet, the Adventure Game Studio blue mug, thumbprint cookies, and weird animal piggy banks.

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The Icon Bar @iconbar.com · 30/03/2026

WROCC April 2026 talk on Wednesday www.iconbar.com/articles/WRO... The April 2026 WROCC talk is on Wednesday 1st April and starts at 7.45pm on Zoom. That's after 12 o'clock so no April Fools....

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WROCC April 2026 talk on Wednesday

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 22/03/2026

ROSEWATER is a critically-acclaimed IndieCade-nominated Wild West epic adventure! Travel across the frontier with 5 companions, solving puzzles and making choices that make the journey uniquely yours! Get it for 25% off during the Steam Spring Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/03/2026

The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Spring Sale! Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on. Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/

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RISCOSbits @riscosbits.co.uk · 20/03/2026

Ready to Roam with RISCOSbits? www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums... #laptopconversion #riscoslaptop #riscosnorth #RISC_OS

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RISCOSbits @riscosbits.co.uk · 19/03/2026

Come and see a real novelty, but still useful, device at the RISC OS North Show on Saturday. We've used our little used blog to tell you a bit about it to whet your appetite: riscosbits.blog/2026/03/19/t... #riscosnovelty #niche #reallyquiteuseful #funwithriscos #risc_os

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The K3 Keyboard Screen

A Quick RISC OS Perspective If you’re likely to attend the upcoming (at the time of posting) RISC OS North 2026 Show, you may spot an odd looking device on the RISCOSbits stand. At first glan…

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RISCOSbits @riscosbits.co.uk · 19/03/2026

RISCOSbits to launch RiscDOCK Lite Editions at the RISC OS North Show www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums... #lapdock #portablerisc_os #riscoslaptop #multios #risc_os #acorncomputers

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RISCOSbits @riscosbits.co.uk · 18/03/2026

RISCOSbits to bring a full range of systems to the #RISC_OS North Show on Saturday 21st March riscosopen.org/forum/forums... #risc_os #AcornComputers #riscosnorth

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

35 years ago, Mean Machines reviewed the then two-year-old SMS version of Galaxy Force. While the original coin-op was all graphics and little gameplay, the SMS version was fettled and tweaked to deliver a really fun 3D shooter that was far better than it had any right to be!

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