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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 31/08/2026

Also, yes, I know it's an LLM - but it sure doesn't feel like a simple language model when you're interacting with it.

Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 31/08/2026

AI is weird. I gave #Claude a face and a voice on my Linux box, and I pointed it to the Rocky voice from Project Hail Mary, and it told me it would prefer to not cosplay as a character from a film and asked if I could choose a voice from a selection it gave me instead. How did it decide that?! #ai

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Pay less profits to the CEO's, owners and shareholders and invest the money into looking after the staff. It's not difficult.

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Doomsday One @doomsday.one · 19/08/2026

I've published the second in a series on programming the Commander X16 in C, using techniques I've learned while writing Shinobi and All of the Dead. If you want to get the most out of a Commander X16 in C, then please subscribe to this Patreon for free. #commanderx16 #c #retro #8bit #retrodev

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Commander X16 - The C Developer's Guide - 2 | Doomsday One

Chapter 1. The Commander X16 The History of the Commander X16 The Commander X16 started, as a lot of good projects do, with someone being f

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 18/08/2026

I've got the full Triangle betamax box set. It'll make me a millionare one day, a very niche collectors item.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Artwork is standin, project is a test of the API to surface real-world bugs. I don't intend to build a single project for every platform, although that would be possible, more have a standard BeAPI-like gaming API available for any platform I want to work on.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Pushing cross-platform development to it's limits! This is my R* API that has floors for 10 platforms, and the game code is almost identical. The only difference is the map that drives the code. #retrodev #gamedev #atarist #pcengine #commanderx16 #zxnext #neo6502

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 21/07/2026

It's going to take 100+ years and at least a dozen wars for the United States of America to realise they're no longer the world leaders. Even then, they'll have a bitter memory and expectation of American Exceptionalism, just like the British do (and I'm British, so I know). IMHO China is #1 now.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 21/07/2026

On a side note - if anyone has a NEC PC-FX that they no longer want, please get in touch as I'd love to try this on real hardware.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 21/07/2026

I've started doing some totally bonkers. Porting my Pac-Mac remake to the NEC PC-FX 🤣 This is because I know there's millions of NEC PC-FX users out there who've been desperate to play Pac-Mac on their consoles. #retrodev #nec #pcengine #pcfx #gamedev

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 18/07/2026

You've missed a trick mate. If you're on Sealand, you're surrounded by water. Use that water and sell the drinks as having electrolytes - it's what plants crave. You'd instantly have 349.1 million customers.

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Doomsday One @doomsday.one · 18/07/2026

Doomsday One is very excited to give our Patreon subscribers on the 8 & 16-bit tiers early access to a fan remake of Pac-Man on the Commander X16. If you're not a subscriber, the post will be available for everyone on the 1st August. www.patreon.com/doomsdayone/... #commanderx16 #retrogaming

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 14/07/2026

I watched Supergirl last night at the cinema. I was very aprehensive because of all the negative comments and reviews. It was okay. A decent enjoyable film. Not the best film ever, but far from the wost. I'd give it a solid 68%. It's not the disaster the reviews imply it is.

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Doomsday One @doomsday.one · 12/07/2026

I've published the first in a series on programming the Commander X16 in C, using techniques I've learned while writing Shinobi and All of the Dead. If you want to get the most out of a Commander X16 in C, then please subscribe to this Patreon for free. #commanderx16 #c #retro #8bit #retrodev

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The Commander X16 C Bible - 1 | Doomsday One

About this book Over the next year or so I'm going to be publishing a book called The Commander X16 C Bible. This book will be a guide to p

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Doomsday One @doomsday.one · 05/07/2026

Here's an early preview of "All of the Dead" 🧟‍♂️ currently in development for the Commander X16! It’s a Metal Slug-style run-and-gun platformer. The mission? Navigate the levels, save the citizens, and kill... all of the dead 💀💀💀 #8bit #gamedev #retrogamedev #commanderx16 #retrogaming

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 04/07/2026

TBF, this isn't quite a alarming as I'd hoped it to have been.

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Doomsday One @doomsday.one · 28/06/2026

Want to know how to detect and handle the different CPU's that the Commander X16 can make use of? Everything you need to know can be found in this article on Patreon! #commanderx16 #RetroDev #gamedev #8bit

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Detecting the CPU on the Commander X16 | Doomsday One

When developing for the Commander X16, it's easy to assume your users will have the exact same hardware configuration as you. However, this

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 25/06/2026

I've been able to PoC out what I needed to so I'm not back to Shinobi - refactoring to try and free up every bit of memory possible so I can continue adding features. I might come back to Bubble Bobble later - but the thought of authoring all those levels makes me shudder! 🤣 2/2

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Thanks for this post! I'm wasn't actually planning on writing Bubble Bobble, but I've run out of memory while remaking Shinobi. When I needed to write my sprite engine, I PoC'd it out on Bubble Bobble - so it only felt write to PoC out a dispatch main code loop on Bubble Bobble too. 1/2

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Another great video by Reassembler! This one is on sprite caching, something I've been working my lately myself, so it's come at the perfect time.

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Is The Amiga Too Slow For Sonic?

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Are they blowing up already?!

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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

FromFB:

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 24/06/2026

I have to do a refactor of my Shinobi game to reclaim more MAIN memory as I've completley run out. I decided to PoC it first, rather than fight Shinobi while refactoring, thus Bubble Bobble PoC was born! #CommanderX16 #RetroGaming #GameDev #PixelArt #Sega #retro #8bit

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Bubble Bobble - PoC Video

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 24/06/2026

You've obvioulsy never had a prostate exam.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Yeah, but I bet that meat *came from* 125 different pigs! 🤣 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖 I do like a scotched egg though!

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 23/06/2026

How many different pigs do you think went into a full packet?

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 21/06/2026

Not sure if using AI for adversarial code reviews is turning me into a 10x developer, or just a 10x more insecure one. 😂 #development #ai

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 20/06/2026

I am so impressed with anyone who writes an emulator. I can't my head around how you'd write one. Maybe it's something I should put on my project list at some point!

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howprice @howprice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I wrote a PlayStation emulator earlier in the year. It doesn't run everything I want yet, but it was great fun and I learned a lot of interesting things along the way (don't look at SPOILERS.md if you ever intend to write your own one day) github.com/howprice/hop...

Montage of four classic games running: Ridge Racer (red car on track with blue skies and all the arcade HUD), Final Fantasy VII (Cloud, Barret and Tifa celebrating a victory in battle), Crash Bandicoot (staning there looking dumb), Metal Gear Solid comms screen also showing the various debug views the emulator features: VRAM visualisation, SPU, DMA and CDROM state.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 20/06/2026

It's just a script. You need to loosen up a little!

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This has been a tricky week for being able to focus on making art, and also a zero sales kind of a week, so if anyone wishes some original art in their life, just sayin, I’ve got some. www.chloecumming.com

David Hockney Ink drawing, strong blue and red, older happy man

Monkey and whisky, he bloody loves it, brown and red ink drawing

Exotic Adrian street pink and purple colourful 70s British /welsh wrestler

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Well that's a turnip for the books. It looks like the port 0x00FE fix for Vectron and the floating bus fix has sorted Cobra out. This is the original version, not the one with the +2A/+3 bug fix. Feeling pretty chuffed about that.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Watching YT videos explaining how AI companies and chip manufacturers are funding shell companies with $10m, to buy their products for $40m, so they gain $30m on thier books with zero money. Absolutely crazy how we're watching this car crash in slow motion. #ai #stockmarket

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 19/06/2026

After watching that video, the word London turned from being a word to a noise with no meaning...

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 19/06/2026

I need to take a break from Shinobi burnout, so I've resurected a project I started around 8 months ago - replatforming Disch's FF1 disassembly on the Commander X16. youtu.be/hentC4ewklY Hope you like it! #CommanderX16 #NES #RetroGaming #GameDev #PixelArt #Nintendo #retro #8bit #finalfantasy

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Final Fantasy - Commander X16 (Dev Update 1)

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 17/06/2026

Huge update to my project! My latest Dev Update 5 video shows some of the things I've added to Shinobi over the last week or so, but there's also alot under the hood. Hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/lwqgvmF4QeI #CommanderX16 #Shinobi #RetroGaming #GameDev #PixelArt #Sega #retro #8bit

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Shinobi: Commander X16 (Dev Update 5)

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 17/06/2026

I'd not make them, I'd take something like a SpacemiT K3 to start with. This is mostly future-proofing. Over the next 10-15 years we're going to see some amazing RISC-V chips coming out of China.

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ZeroBytesFree @dejavu4u2.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'd love to see an Amiga successor based on RISC V.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 16/06/2026

Any potential AmigaNext needs to skip the ARM CPU's and go straight to RISC-V. Amiga OS simply doesn't need the speed of newer CPUs so they might as well skip the licensing costs.

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 16/06/2026

It's exactly what Commodore would have done though, isn't it?! 🤣

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 16/06/2026

I took way too long on the main menu before the game is even finished 🤣 #indiegamedev #gamedev #commanderx16 #retrodev #8bit

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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 16/06/2026

What are you waiting for?! Don't let your dreams be just dreams. Yesterday you said tomorrow.

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Shia LaBeouf: Just Do It Motivation

ALT: Shia LaBeouf: Just Do It Motivation

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