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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest Elite hack: Two-player Elite for the #BBCMicro This is the original 1980s Acornsoft Elite, but with split-screen, two-player, deep-space combat See the thread for links, downloads and details (1/10) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #elitedangerous

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Mix It Up @mixitupbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please Read. Please Share. Please Like. Above all, and with many thanks to everyone, please CELEBRATE! 🙏💙💜

Mix It Up “One Year Later | Part 1/2” community update on a purple, star-filled background. The message reflects on the project’s uncertain position one year ago and thanks Patreon members for keeping it running, moderators and support volunteers for helping creators, and a community that has nearly doubled in size. Over the past year, Mix It Up shipped 123 features, including 3 new platform integrations, fixed 122 bugs, made 49 performance, accessibility, and quality-of-life improvements, delivered 62 updates, handled 2,296 support tickets, and launched a new website with integrated documentation. It also thanks community members testing the next generation of Mix It Up for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Early builds are expected for Patreon members within the next week or two. Continued in Part 2.

Mix It Up “One Year Later | Part 2/2” community update on a purple, star-filled background. The message goes on to say that the project’s rapid growth has created more work than one person can reasonably sustain. A one-time two-month leave from a day job was spent working over 400 hours on Mix It Up, yet the backlog remained. Two goals are set for the next year: finish and ship the next generation of Mix It Up on every planned platform, and reach enough financial support for full-time development and at least one additional staff member. If every community member contributed one dollar per month, less than half the cost of a Prime subscription, that financial goal would be met. The message stresses that no one is expected to contribute and invites ideas such as Patreon benefits, partnerships, or other support options. It closes by thanking the community for helping Mix It Up move from surviving to planning what comes next.

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CMDR Dirk Hatch @cmdrhatch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fantastic support (again) from @mixitupbot.bsky.social to a rather sticky issue I was having. I really can't recommend MixItUp as a streaming bot more highly. mixitup.bot 165,984 caravan card flipped and still going strong! (If you know, you know)

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Two-player Elite on the #BBCMicro is finally feature-complete. Phew, that was a long road! Got a few bugs to fix, but the Acorn team at @tnmoc.bsky.social have road-tested and given it a thumbs up, so that's a good sign. September release, I hope... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit #elite

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Growing up, Chris Foss (born 1946) painted the landscapes of my imagination and his art helped sell many books to me I would not have otherwise purchased! His iconic 1970s sci-fi art still feels as awe-inspiring today as it did then.

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LukHash @lukhash.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have a new website and it's kind of like a game now 👾 👉 lukhash.com Come hang out in Neon City, chat to NPCs, hit the Raster Bar, earn Resident Status, and see what else is hiding around the streets :) Let me know what you think! (also when you spot any bugs!🐛)

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🖐️ “But what if 20+ Kestrels all descend into the same CZ and then shoot at the same target?” I hear you cry. 🥸 Thank you for asking… here is the unbridled savagery you’re looking for… 📓 The Buur Pit… asking & answering the important questions. /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social #EliteDangerous o7

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Kestrel Swarm vs. 1 High Intensity CZ | Elite Dangerous

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Missiles are now working in two-player #BBCMicro Elite. This clip shows player 1 firing a missile at player 2 (in the bottom view) and then player 2 retaliating (in both views). This was really difficult to build! But it's important; see the thread for details. #retrocomputing #retrogaming (1/3)

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Mix It Up @mixitupbot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

MIX IT UP v1.8.000 IS OUT NOW! 🚀 We’ve added a whole new platform integration with @veloratv.bsky.social , added FOUR new donation platforms ( @throne.com , @fourthwall.com, @ko-fi.com, and pally.gg ) and a whole lot more! We've got the full changelog posted over the in Discord! Enjoy! 💙💜❤️💚💛

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📐 Suddenly have an overwhelming need to start looking at Odyssey engineering but have no idea where to start? 📹 Here’s a video to get you started! 🙂 /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social #EliteDangerous o7

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GUIDE : On-foot ENGINEERING & Upgrading | Elite Dangerous Odyssey

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CMDR Dirk Hatch @cmdrhatch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's too hot to stream today, but I dig get a chance to try and Operation with @fireytoad.bsky.social . Wow, hadn't expected it to be that much fun! Really looking forward to the update and playing with my squad! #EliteDangerous

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Kestrel is now available for credits from your local favoured Galactic Retail Outlet: (Thx CMDR Nug for the heads up! o7) #EliteDangerous o7

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

To help me test two-player #BBCMicro Elite, I’ve added “AI Pilot” as an option It uses the game’s 1984 tactics routines to fly player 2 (bottom view) It’s really interesting to watch Elite’s original “AI” from inside the other ship’s cockpit - in this case, an NPC Python #retrocomputing (1/3)

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Two-player #BBCMicro Elite will be a deep-space dogfight game The rest of Elite wouldn’t be that exciting with two players, so I’m sticking to the core combat experience When you fire it up, you can choose what kind of contest you want Here's the all-new config screen 🚀 Game on! #retrocomputing

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Chris Thompson @chrisxl5.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Some before and after model shots of the Liberator from Blake's 7 Series 2/B.

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’ve been beavering away at two-player #BBCMicro Elite These videos show the most recent improvements: laser beams, hit counters, two-player dashboard, planets, suns and more accuracy It’s quite difficult to film! See the thread for a tour of what’s new… (1/6) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit

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CMDR Matt G @cmdrmattg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hunting Brain Trees on atmospheric bodies again... #EliteDangerous #StellarScreenshots

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Two-player #BBCMicro #Elite is coming along nicely. It now supports two pilots in two ships with two controllers and a split-view screen Here are some work-in-progress videos - see the thread for an explanation There’s lots to fix, but at least we have a proof-of-concept… (1/6) #retrocomputing

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Frontier @frontierdev.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The surface is calling. Discover the next new Elite Dangerous vessel. Full Concept Reveal - 2 June 2026

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

😮 Are the CONSORTIUM finally making a move on the Bubble? ⭐ In this video @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social and I discuss the mysterious lady Zi and wonder whether this is all linked to an unresolved, 4 year old mystery. #EliteDangerous o7

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GALNET NEWS: Lady Zi & The Consortium | Elite Dangerous Chill & Kill

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Mix It Up @mixitupbot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR THE MIX IT UP COMMUNITY Please take a moment to read and help us spread the word! We also want to say thank you for being part of this incredible community, for the journey so far, and for continuing to support what we’re building together.

First part of a Mix It Up community update that reads:
Hey everyone!

It’s been a little over 8 months since the last big community update, and I want to start this one differently.

Thank You

When we posted our announcement last August, we genuinely weren’t sure whether Mix It Up would survive more than a few weeks. The community’s response changed that immediately. The messages, the support, and the people who stepped up when we asked for help meant more than we can properly express. You didn’t just keep Mix It Up alive, you helped restore the momentum we had lost and reminded us why we started building this in the first place.

Here’s what that support made possible:
• 15 updates delivered
• 62 new features
• 41 bug fixes
• 34 performance and quality of life improvements

And beyond that:
• We overhauled Discord support. Since then, we’ve handled over 1,000 tickets, with more than 90% answered within 24 hours.
• Our most requested feature, Kick integration, is now in closed alpha and is expected to launch this month.
• We built 4 internal prototypes to map out full cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS), laying the groundwork for true cross-device support.
• We’ve reworked our infrastructure, cutting costs by ~20% while more than doubling performance.
• We’re nearing completion of a new website, set to launch in the next few weeks, to centralize everything Mix It Up, including a full documentation portal.

In short, progress didn’t just resume. It accelerated, and we’re now building for the long-term, not just the next release.

All of this progress has come from reinvesting everything back into development and support. As the project grows, so does the cost of maintaining that pace.

...Achieving long-term sustainability is absolutely within reach, but only with sustained community support. It doesn’t require everyone, only a small percentage of the community choosing to support it.

Right now, our amazing Patreon members represent about 0.2% of active users.

Around 1% is where Mix It Up becomes self-supporting. Not in a growth sense, but literally in reliably maintaining and operating the project long-term without strain. This is the baseline we're aiming for that keeps everything running steadily.

At ~2%, we can start confidently investing in more resource-heavy features like remote management, cloud backups, and additional platforms like TikTok Live.

At ~5%, full-time focus becomes realistic, and development speed increases significantly across the board.

The gap between where we are and where we need to be is relatively small, and we’re confident we can reach it with continued community support. If we don’t reach sustainability, we’ll eventually need to make difficult decisions. That could include introducing premium tiers, moving resource-intensive features or services behind them, slowing development, or in the worst case, shutting the project down if it becomes unsustainable to maintain. None of these are outcomes we want, but they are the practical realities of running and scaling a project like this long-term.

If Mix It Up has been valuable to you or part of your stream or community, even a small amount of support makes a direct impact. It helps close the sustainability gap and allows us to keep improving and investing more deeply into the platform.

To everyone already supporting Mix It Up, thank you for being on this journey with us and helping us build something that has gone far beyond what we originally set out to create.

If you want to support Mix It Up, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/mixitupapp

With gratitude,
Tim (Verbatim_T)

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Beetlejude @beetlejude.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

youtu.be/dkQ7YOmmStE?... here's a picture of a peduncle tree and a video of me doing it. #elitedangerous

a picture of a Peduncle tree floating neat a star. half the picture is taken up by the orange arc of the stars boiling orange and white, the peduncle tree is like an upside down Y shape with three stalks with pods on the end and a stalk coming towards you. the left hand of the picture is dark with space and clouds of distant peduncles.

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

✨ Premiering at 16hrs35 UTC 📆 Arriving NEXT WEEK on the 28th of April. 💰 FREE to everyone on launch day 🛫 Our full in-depth REVIEW of the Zorgon Peterson Lynx Highliner! #EliteDangerous o7

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Lynx Highliner : FULL REVIEW | Elite Dangerous

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've just released a web version of the documented source code for the Elite Demonstration Disc, the 1984 self-playing demo from Acornsoft. elite.bbcelite.com/demo It's got syntax colouring, hyperlinked labels, code maps, indexes, stats and more. Deep dive coming soon. #bbcmicro #retrocomputing

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About the Elite Demonstration Disc - Elite on the 6502

An article about the source code for the Elite Demonstration Disc for the BBC Micro

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FireyToad @fireytoad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

LIVE NOW in @EliteDangerous 🚀Checking out the new Lynx Highliner passenger ship 🔴 twitch.tv/fireytoad 📺 youtube.com/live/oKf4yQY... #EliteDangerous #EliteDangerousOdyssey #YouTube #Twitch

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented. * 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code * 51 deep dives (116,240 words) * Buildable repository * 100% handcrafted AI-free content * 7 months’ work thesentinel.bbcelite.com #retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro

Generating the landscape in The Sentinel

A panorama of landscape 0000 in The Sentinel

A contour map of the landscape in The Sentinel

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Time for my last batch of deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game. This one's a mixed bunch of miscellaneous topics, from anti-cracker code to hidden snippets of original source code. Short and sweet! thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Enjoy… #retrocomputing #c64

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

Index of all deep dive articles about The Sentinel

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What links The Sentinel with "Every Breath You Take"? Why, it’s the minor added 9th chord, of course! And the fact that they’re both 1980s classics Find out more in batch #10 of my deep dives: thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #11 (last one!) soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing #c64 #bbcmicro

The cover of the "Every Breath You Take" single

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just wrote word number 100,000 of my deep dives into the epic game The Sentinel. I know quantity <> quality, but milestones are important in projects this long. I started this project in September! Seems like a lifetime ago. Here's my progress chart. Nearly there… #retrocomputing #c64 #bbcmicro

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New release: deep dives #37 to #40 for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game This batch (#8) is a small release, covering the title screens, energy icons and scanner thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #9 is still in the oven, coming soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing #c64 #8bit

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🕠 Premiering at 17h30 UTC ✨ This weeks Witchspace News! 🛠️ Fantastic New Tool for Explorers 👉 Changes Ahead for Epic Launcher Users 🚀 The Caspian is Now Free to Access /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social o7 #EliteDangerous o7

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NEWS Elite Dangerous: Caspian Full Production, Major Epic Store update & More!

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Premiering at 17h30 UTC This weeks Witchspace News! 🧟‍♂️ Are Thargoid sleeper cells awakening? 👮‍♂️ Buckyball wants to send you to prison(s)! 🧭 New Distant Deep-Space Station is Deployed /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social o7 #EliteDangerous o7

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NEWS Elite Dangerous: New Deep Space Station Deployed & More

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Documenting The Sentinel is really growing my collection of disassemblies at bbcelite.com Five projects: Elite, Aviator, Revs, Lander, The Sentinel 1,038,891 words of source code commentary 507,016 words of deep dives All Shakespeare's plays? 835,997 words #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

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Mark Moxon's Software Archaeology

Reverse engineering, code disassemblies and a healthy dose of retrocomputing nostalgia

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Time for some more deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game! Batch #6 is now ready: 3 new articles about screen buffers, panning, scrolling and dithering thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #7 (drawing the landscape) coming soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing #c64 #8bit

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Premiering at 17h20 UTC This weeks Witchspace News! 💰 Don’t Miss Your Last Chance for this Weeks CG Rewards! 🎫 Tickets for ECM 2026 on sale 🙊 Lexi October Finally Speaks Radicoida to Vox Galactica /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social o7 #EliteDangerous o7

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NEWS Elite Dangerous: COMMUNITY MEET UP 2026, Last Chance for CG Rewards & More!

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Just released: 6 brand new deep dives into The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro and #C64 This is where it gets interesting! Generating 10,000 3D landscapes; tile data and shapes; enemies and trees; secret codes thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives#latest Batch #4 coming soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

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Frontier @frontierdev.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📷 Congratulations to this week's #StellarScreenshots winners! Some amazing entries this week! 🎁 Your Asp Explorer paint jobs have been added to your accounts!

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm (slowly!) releasing 50+ deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game Batch #2 is now ready: 7 new articles about maths, geometry, trigonometry… and Revs thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #3 (landscape) coming soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm releasing over 50 deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game. Batch #1 is now ready: 6 new articles about memory maps, program flow and interrupts, all at thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #2 (maths!) coming soon. Enjoy! #retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

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Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

Index of all deep dive articles about The Sentinel

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

✨ Frontier are releasing the Kestrel MK2 into #EliteDangerous next week in ARX Early Access. 🧰 We’ve had access to a preview build of the ship and here are our thoughts on it. /w @cmdrrheeney.bsky.social o7

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KESTREL MKII REVIEW : Everything You Need to Know | Elite Dangerous

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FireyToad @fireytoad.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Live in 30 minutes — flight testing in @EliteDangerous 🌌 Flight testing the Kestrel Mk2, how does it fare? 📷 Twitch: twitch.tv/fireytoad 📷 YouTube: youtube.com/@Fireytoad/s... #EliteDangerous #EliteDangerousOdyssey #YouTube #Twitch

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The Buur Pit @cmdrbuur.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

✨ Frontier just released their devlog detailing a roadmap for the #EliteDangerous year ahead 🚀 We’ve details for the next new ship 🪟 The launch window for Operations and much more… here’s everything we just learned… o7