Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ah, I miss playing Wii Play and Wii Sports with the kids when they were tiny. Still got ours, collecting dust. 000
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Holograms were the future we wanted. AI was the future we got. I want a refund. 020
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I couldn't get Buggy Boy to run at the correct speed on my A500 mini - it always runs too fast. Maybe I have a dodgy download. Did you have to do something in the config? 000
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Entertaining and educational as ever, Daphne. That Power Up compilation looked good. And I'll never get bored of hearing THAT Bryan Adams song! 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We need a new database schema at work for our reporting tables. Our schemas are always 3 letters so I suggested BUM - Business Unit Metrics - and then our stored procedures will contain 'INSERT INTO BUM. ...' And that's why I'm not allowed to make decisions at work. 170
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris. #RetroGaming thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-...thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born TetrisBehind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power. 131
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yep. I could do 9 per platform if I limited myself to the speccy, C64 and Amiga. 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thought I would struggle to think of 9 but once you start they just keep coming. Disappointed Millennium 2.2 wasn't there. 170
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dress up as Krampus and knock on their door. 😉 031
Reposted by Commodore StuffComputer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 22/09/2026"Six years ago, this was the site of a booming NFT market. Today it's an AI startup losing $1 billion per week. And a year from now, it will hopefully host a ritual sacrifice of techbros to the Roman God Pluto as punishment for their greed." "For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods." #satire 1289
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026He's also Len in The Smoking Room. Been re-watching that on iPlayer lately. Very funny. (And obvs Rita's been on Corrie for a while.) 131
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026OK, so uncle Clive didn't really "market the first personal computer", but nonetheless this is wonderful. #Sinclair #ZX80 032
Reposted by Commodore StuffCarl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Automatic conversion to c64 bitmap, pretty good for an unedited photo. Decided to whip a little something together. 2101
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Makes sense. Geometric shapes and pixel pushing were about the limit of my artistic capability so I preferred DPaint. My Amiga came with Photon Paint - fun for goofing around with the photos on the art disk but I couldn't do much else with it. 011
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wow! Advanced OCP Art Studio was my first art package on the C64 but sadly I didn't have a mouse. What's your favourite out of that lot? 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ha! This is some cool witchcraft. Of course, if I had heard this in 1986 I probably would've spat my dummy out and cried like a baby! youtu.be/fejXoP8D79I?...youtu.beWhat If Somewhere in Time Was an 80s Synthpop Album? | Iron Maiden Full AlbumYouTube video by DreamixAI 000
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bit of Wing Commander trivia: Whenever the player quit the game back to DOS an error message appeared. They couldn't find the cause in time, and it didn't negatively affect the game, so they edited the error message to say 'Thank you for playing Wing Commander!' #RetroGaming 070
Reposted by Commodore StuffVillordsutch @villordsutch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026After meeting an old man in the desert, I've decided to start listening to the voices in my head, and I want to vaporise two million people. Thanks to the power of the #ZX81, I can now do that, with 3D Star Raid, which is definitely not #StarWars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1A...youtube.comStar Wars blasts onto the ZX81 with 3D Star Raid! (16K Homebrew)YouTube video by Villordsutch 1165
Reposted by Commodore StuffJamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I never ever had a car boot treasure find before and felt like that was a 2000s thing, never to be lived by me. BUT I found an incredible horde of Atari 2600 games for £30 Amazing stuff (More photos in replies) 2321023
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I fully agree with the results. Those kids knew what they were talking about. 010
Reposted by Commodore StuffOld British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 05/09/2026[1984] Saturday Superstore - Sarah Greene is joined by some young games experts - Dominic, Duncan and Cassie - to help her undertake a "Special Superstore Software Check-Out." Which of the computer games in the so-called Top Ten do they think is the best? 182
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026And the music by Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is very evocative of the time. 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Love watching these videos, especially where they try to predict the future ("Soon, every home could have its own computer..."). This one also shows how chips are made. #RetroComputing youtu.be/9Ackau8135wyoutu.be1980: The Microelectronics Revolution | The Silicon Factor | BBC ArchiveYouTube video by BBC Archive 2124
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Good. Now do your homework and no playing games until you've finished! 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Exactly! Or something like the Pamplona bull run. A joystick waggler. 010
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea for a game... 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I'm Horsham based, not too far away. Used to work just off Old Steine. 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026There's these: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-...european-alternatives.euEuropean alternatives to Google Maps | European AlternativesGoogle Maps is one of the most popular navigation apps worldwide. 010
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Are you both down on the south coast then? 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Imagine if they'd used Kenneth Williams' voice instead of Kenneth Kendall's for the BBC's speech synthesis due to an administrative error. 011
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Those manuals have been very well looked after! 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My friend got this bundled with his Amiga 500, and F/A18 Intercepter and a couple of other not-bad games. In the days when independent dealers just seemed to pick random games to include. 110
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Global weather reports from an array of 100 ZX81s. 😎 #ZX81 010
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026No worries, I'm sure they're already online if I / you need them. 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Check if the Programmer's Reference Guide includes the schematics. Mine didn't and I'm still bitter about it after all these years! 120
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I only continued using X (under a different account) to snark at the Top of the Pops repeats with the old crowd, but the app just gets worse and more unusable with every update so I uninstalled it. Only use Bluesky now. 040
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026These cassettes. We had others but these are the only survivors. 140
Reposted by Commodore StuffKaptajnen @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It's only been a few days since the super impressive #Wolfenstein 3D #homebrew port landed on the #C64 But its creator, "Kweepa" is already working on another demake of an FPS classic of the 90s #Quake A game I never thought I'd see attempted on #Commodore64 hardware #retrogaming #gaming #gamedev 46314
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I was playing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a lot in April '91 for some reason. Really putting the Amiga's custom chips through their paces. 010
Reposted by Commodore Stuff 𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨 Love ❤️ @amigalove.com · 19/08/2026I decided to build something for about 50 people on the planet, maybe less... www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.ph... It's a chess variant game on the C128 in GEOS. Yes. You read that right. And if you are one of ~10 people that has a SuperCPU 128? It'll be about 10x a better engine (2mhz vs 20mhz). 03910
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026How long would it take to get through all those! 010
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It does look a bit Acorny, doesn't it? Probably just a coincidence... 101
Commodore Stuff @commodorestuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is very cool. Migraine inducing but cool. Nicely explained, too. #ASCII youtu.be/3YtygAx_C6Ayoutu.beA Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML FileYouTube video by Grow Now! Games 020
Reposted by Commodore Stuffgloriouscow.bsky.social @gloriouscow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Since y'all liked my floppy disk so much, here's one rotated the other way. I've added some subtle gradient shading, didn't want to overdo it so much it loses its "flat" look but I think it looks nice. #retrocomputing #pixelart #floppydisk 318623
