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MadDamo (Ye olde dev)

@damiensturdy.bsky.social
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Creating an Acorn-esque emulator and a real synthesizer. Sometimes makes games. Sturdy Games- Developer of way too many things at once, #8-Bit #Acorn #Kotlin, #CSharp, #Unity, #Java, #Javascript, #FLStudio, #Godot sturdygames.co.uk

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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20h
Beeb fixed up with a piTubeDirect and pi1mhz. SWRam detection routines still fail to find ram at the moment, so I need to take a look at what's going on there. SWRam used to work, my own games use it! The system has an ANFS card taking up one slot, not sure if this causes more issues- we'll see!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Uh... What on earth happened here? (Wasn't me!) Poor mistreated Beeb!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow beebers, I am concerned my Master is very poorly. I was able to boot into my pitubedirect once too but it kept misbehaving, booting into the wrong ROM or just hanging. I lack visuals on the internals of a stocn Master but this one did used to work nicely. It's worse than ever at the mo. :(
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Timing is spot on here! I must confess it's not actually fixed for 2 reasons: 1) I calculated I was 64 cycled out on the VIA clock somehow- so manually cycled the VIA, and boom, theory confirmed. 2) every few seconds a rogue interrupt throws everything out of whack! (Image noise is intentional)
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Has anyone actually been able to use Steam's "Play Together" feature? Any time I think "Oh I'll join that!" the option doesn't exist. I do always see "Find games to play together" but this option returns a list of exactly 1 game. Seems broken to me :/
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just put Casper on for the kids. I loved this daft film as a kid. ...I'm sorry Disney, in what world is Caspter rated 14+ now? It was PG back in the 90's. Be sensible. Casper (warning may contain ghosts): 14+ Futurama (full of curses and adult themes): 12+ That's just daft!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting. If I load and launch Revs directly in my emulator, circumventing the usual !BOOT mechanism, keyboard input doesn't work- you can get as far as entering wing settings but then you can't type anything. Works fine if you load it from within the emulator manually. Time to mooch around!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More new parts arriving today, I have a cheeky evil idea! Upgraded my Pi zero to a Pi Zero 2 W too which should make it easy to iterate.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bah was preparing my coprocessor and snapped the damn card. Damnit! Snapped right in half. Bahhh.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's alive! But it's a bit poorly! MOS 3.2 (used to have 3.50 but that's packed away) View doesn't start and the display does this stripe thing, which wasn't happening last time I got it out. It'll be a nice project restoring it to full health. Aim: Run Bitshifter demos without cacking!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got my soldering iron out and sorted the beebs PSU! Wooo! No output via the OSSC though :-(
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: Of Course I Know Him, He's Me
ALT: Obi-Wan Kenobi: Of Course I Know Him, He's Me
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So I'm not allowed to lift weights anymore, since my disk is shredded and if it slips it could sever the nerves to my legs. I've got to live like this for another 8-14 months.
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Ace Attorney Damnit
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Few peep uploading photos- here's one of my faves that we took by accident when trying to figure out how to use our camera. This was really late, with no blue in the sky, we were messing with the settings and managed to suck blue out of the night sky and capture this:
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
... Insect pr0n?
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forbidden Solitaire DLC Reveal: www.patreon.com/GreyAlien/po...
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Forbidden Solitaire DLC Reveal | Grey Alien Games
In case you wondered what we've been up to since launching Forbidden Solitaire... First there was the New Game + mode, then the Making of Ar
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nooooo, my Beeb PSU arrived with some mixed up cables so I can't properly connect it to the board! Got it really quick so if I can source some cables I'll be running by the weekend, nice!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big injection in 2 weeks. Operation to clean and restore my spine in 6 months. Well, progress at least.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Your parcel has been delivered" Me:
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Funny Dog Spinning Around
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leonard's playing a game on his device with parental controls enabled and an appropriate age limit configured. Up pops an ad for a 16+ in his 3+ game on a device with a <7 limit. We sure are doing a great job at protecting kids! ID verification really solves this bullshit doesn't it? Come on!!!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Check this out. Peak software engineering right here from a different decade. Doesn't get any better than this! 11/10. (Tenner to whoever decodes what the feck I was doing here.)
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mercenary. 'Nuff said.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Beeb parts arriving tomorrow, woop! Hopefully it arrives early- I'm back in hospital in the PM!
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Crazykai Kaithedog
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm trapped here with a great view of the night sky.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was doing bedtime for my oldest, Sophie. She's feeling a bit under the weather. She's only gone and fallen asleep on my shoulder.... First time in 8 years. I'll stay here all night. Can't move my arm without waking her..... Sleep tight bubba!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WTF Lol. See this? This is videogames. This crazy mix is the sort of thing that grabbed my attention as a kid back in the 80s&90s. Bring it!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Damnit did I just get duped by AI!? I even did a quick google before posting! Damn. My honor is lost! (Extra grump applied because I thought my response was hilarious. Booooo.)
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Spongebob Im Done
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Hey have you seen my keys?" .....
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Has anyone mixed a RasPi and Riscos and a Acorn BBC Master yet? Pondering on how feasible RiscOS on Master would be (Even if that means via piVDU) - Doesn't seem entirely impossible.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My awesome dumbass Paddy trying to getat snacks a few months ago. Bah sad times, but lots of good funny memories!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Leonard playing through Hugh's Grand Day Off. He's found loads of little glitches today. I've said it for years but kids make great QA
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Made a print station, which left space for a third computer at the computer desk. Looks right at home to me! Man I need to tidy this desk though!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ahh man, me breadboarding an early version of my synth. CPP really fits when you work with hardware like this. There's another video where if I slam 10 keys down it farts and turns off due to overrunning the available memory.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yamaha, your presets sure are something!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep just the one issue, We are all approved on Steam! Although now I've seen the game in search results I'd like to tweak it a bit. Woop!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ordered my new PSU ...I have new caps but no time to do it, so just buying a new PSU instead! :D (I've been too scared to turn the beauty on for a while now)
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This was a while ago, but one of my faves. Amazing work by Bitshifters ( @kieranhj.bsky.social ) My Master seems to be unable to keep up with it. Wonder why? Something to investigate on a quiet day.
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
these teams have long running institutional knowledge of the franchises they work on and don’t make every new installment with a team of underpaid juniors being bossed around by clueless suits
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear Devs. TAA and FXAA are awful. Please let me use true supersampling. I don't like smears, it's like someone crapped on my monitor. No MSAA? I mean I get it, not always possible In modern render pipelines, so give me SSAA.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You are not covered for Sciatica or any care related to sciatica" .... I was asking about my ruptured disks not sciatica. WTF man.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Steam rejected my release (As I expected for a first release.) Question is: Will they have listed everything wrong (just one thing) or is this going to be a bumpy ride? Was way easier last time. I've had good experience with their support team so all is well, just wondering!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Improved code organisation in #HughsGrandDayOff. Too much code in the 'player' subclass, not enough in 'actor' - A delicate balancing act; Which behaviours do you want *every* actor to inherit by default? Wasn't going to mess with it until a snail shell climbed up a vine. #GameDev #IndieDev
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Latest Kubuntu installer has the wifi password entry dialog pop up *behind* the installer, which then just freezes solid. WTF, I really hope this isn't slop creeping in but I've not had any installer issues for years!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm deving on a 10th Gen intel i3 with an hd620. I also have a high end machine that hardly gets used since I lost the ability to multiseat it properly. The hd620 can barely push the 4k screen it's connected to but Godot is perfectly happy on it and so are my toys.
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
7 coyote frames - that's a bit much isn't it? Game feels quite nice but I'm surprised it took 7 frames to feel the benefit. I'd expect it to be 2-3 frames tops? I suppose I'm rendering in an environment where input latency isn't guaranteed to be as low as possible, hmmm.
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Wile E Coyote
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The start of my Revs project. Also not dead but hoping to do a couple of things with it depending on what time allows 1) HD rendering (cheat, monitor the (headless) emulator and render in GL/Vulkan) 2) Multiplayer (Has this already been done?)
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is incredible, and excites me because I've got a Revs project on my backlog that would compliment it. It's giving me that push to make sure I reach it and get it done. Awesome work!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My wife just beat me at Mario Kart.
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Spongebob Im Done
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reminder not to recoil just because you hear someone say "AI". Not all AI is unethical and some of it is damn awesome!
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MadDamo (Ye olde dev) @damiensturdy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So Oneplus is leaving the market, and I can't obtain a reliable replacement battery. I don't want or need a new phone, my current one is perfect. It's old but it works very very well. Except for the battery. It costs hundreds to just match this phone? More than I paid for it new! FFS, no.
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