andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Depends if you find the process of trying to improve it with AI to be fun, I guess. It's certainly more of a challenge than just slop-porting the SMS version across. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is one of the reasons AI is good at it. It doesn't get bored and sees no issue with running through thousands of minor variations to produce an optimal result. 100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's almost certainly possible to some degree. There are already a few Spectrum games that have been sped up in this fashion. I'm not saying it's easy, but you could definitely guide an AI to do this kind of work. 120
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah, you really really don't want to be drinking microscopic shards of glass. Quite aside from the potential internal damage it'll cause, it'll ruin the taste of the wine. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah, that's sadly what I suspect we will see. 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Assuming you're using a teapot it makes no real difference. If you're using a teabag in a cup though it will ruin the tea, since it only brews properly with boiling hot water. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Wombles have clearly got a lot more morbid since I was a child. 1100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I hope and pray that Birmingham New Street Station is never the last refuge of humanity. If it is, I think I'd just let the machines win. 020
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Likewise. It's hard to overstate quite the impact that game had on my impressionable young mind. 020
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Working from the office is increasing our anxiety and means that companies don't have to bother with the mental health of their workers. Anyone that says is just better is actually saying " its better for me" (which is a enabling toxic individualism) 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hmm, I don't see it myself, although both are great games. I've always seen Resident Evil as the spiritual successor to the Dizzy games (it basically plays the same but with Zombies) 001
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Use by dates should not be ignored. Best before dates, on the other hand, are generally ok to ignore although it may not taste as good as it should have. 2240
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026By then, I think SU was just slapping random numbers next to reviews - probably based on advertising spend more than anything. Frankly 90% of the mag was printed in unreadable colours anyway, usually with printing defects making it even worse. 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: University science researchers lose their jobs and start local pest extermination business instead. 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm thinking it's time to officially rename Mar-a-lago to Little Cocktrumpington 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oh God, they've changed the entire way movement works. There isn't much to the game but that's basically the thing that matters most. Sacrilegious. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Sure. Many of them are free, so (personally) I'd be less concerned if nobody is making money although I can certainly understand that others might disagree. But commercial efforts should definitely seek and compensate the original rights holders. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Exactly. As long as the original author is ok, then I don't see an issue. And if the changes are substantial, then label it as a remake etc. I think most people would just accept that a modern port may play slightly differently anyway. 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don't really see the problem with updating it if it makes sense to do so. Plenty of re-releases add QoL features or enhancements etc. It's not like the original goes away if people want that. 100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026May I press you to a cucumber sandwich? 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly how Microsoft licensing works, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened. (Apologies to Mr Adams) 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"Hospital closures killed more than car bombs ever will" - Manic Street Preachers 000
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Yeah the transfer process is a bit janky if you have lots of downloaded games, but once it's done everything is pretty plain sailing. 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Hmm. Sounds dubious. Pretty sure it requires an egg. Wearing boxing gloves. 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026*Closing credit theme to The Incredible Hulk* 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Nice. The Spectrum made it a lot easier because you could CLEAR memory to reserve an appropriate sized block for machine code routines. You could also directly LOAD CODE blocks (although a devious trick was to SAVE the entirety of RAM and the LOAD Basic + M/C in on go) 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As much as it saddens me to say, I think you're probably right. It's long past it's prime and probably better left as a memory. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Was that the XOR one? It seemed bonkers that Commodore had issues shipping CD32s because of that, given that the Amiga blitter used minterms rather than actual XOR operations. 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It can be interesting, especially in code bases that have had multiple authors over the years. But everyone has their style and you sometimes can tell who wrote what by the subtle hints in layout or approach. You can see where they went down a rabbit hole and just fudged the implementation. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Haha, yes having spent a lot of my career reverse engineering systems I entirely understand. Still think people will be interested as historical artifacts though. And AI can help those who want to understand it. 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Great article and, FWIW, I'm sure plenty of people would be fascinated by your source if you could share it. Even if we're now all spoilt with fancy debugging tools that can show exactly what was going on inside games like this! 120
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Doesn't describing something as good "on paper" usually mean it's a bit shit. As in,"The Jaguar is a great games console, on paper, but..." 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026America: Land of the Free (unless you want to dry clothes). 😂 (In fairness the same sometimes applies here in the UK) 100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Makes sense. I cannot conceive of why, if you lived somewhere like California, you wouldn't take advantage of the weather to dry your clothes. 310
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This is one of those somewhat retro-active history things. In reality Amstrad chose the 3" drive because the drive mechanisms were a *lot* cheaper. And until the very late 80s the cost of disks wasn't all that different. 3.5" only won because IBM picked it and PC costs high enough to hide the cost. 0121
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026We're not sure Dizzy fits in with the whole theme of galactic war. Can you slightly modify the sprite to look more like a potato, call him Seymour and we'll assume nobody will notice? 020
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Yeah, an incredibly laborious process. Followed usually by it failing and hours spent trying to work out if the code was wrong, the hand assembly was wrong or the typing in was wrong.... 010
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andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026It also meant you could save memory by left aligning everything you printed. Which is it's own level of nuts optimisation. Didn't happen on a machine with a fancy 16K of memory though. When you're that extravagant you clearly don't need to save memory! 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Strongly, suggest, getting them, for punctuation, and grammer, proof-read, first, though. 020
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Love this. I remember a thread on cpc wiki a few years back around how we could start bringing this into emulation. On a 4K screen you can start to replicate the screen at a sub pixel level (and fake some of the colour bleed). These kinds of high res photos are crucial to getting it right. 100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Well I don't know about anyone else, but I'm in. I will buy all of his adventures and whatever cheap knock-off arcade games you can forcefully slap him into at the last minute. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Along with "I run a playtest company and think games developer need to hire more external playtest companies" 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026True. Although you'd have thought it'd be easier to take Ocean's generic film licence engine, tweak it with some Plus magic and shove out a revamped Robocop or something. The bewildering world of 80s game development... 020
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It always struck me as an odd pick of pack in game: you've built a console specifically enhanced for 2D sprite based games, so show it off with a 3D racer that can't really take advantage of the hardware. The colour usage was impressive in the day/night cycle though. 100
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It would be fascinating to see what might have been, although it was inevitably going to be a bit of a car crash version. SF2 was probably the game that finally showed the cheap home computer era was over, even the Amiga wasn't really up to it. 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I really should give Monster Max a try at some point. Although 6 hours to play through and presumably no save. 😬 110
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026😂I'd probably have gone for the Resi mansion if you hadn't! 010
andycadley.bsky.social @andycadley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Not my house, but I know my way around.media.tenor.coma video game called the bathroom is being played on a red backgroundALT: a video game called the bathroom is being played on a red background 110
