Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 02/10/2026Ah I never considered that. A bit less contact surface but less friction on the legs I guess? 100
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 02/10/2026Maybe something more delicate than my dad’s old flathead screwdriver for levering them out, too. 🤔 001
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 02/10/2026Hopefully they’re broadly useful enough to stay around for a while🤞 Now you mention it I see new DIPs are running out, I should grab a few before they do …and maybe some ZIF sockets for testing so I don’t fatigue the legs off of these one too! 😆 200
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 02/10/2026Joyful stuff! #SID #C64 #Keytar 🤘youtube.comGhosts'n'Goblins, International Karate, and more: LFT @ Back in Time Live 2026 in Bergen, NorwayYouTube video by lftkryo 020
Reposted by RobertQuazar @samcoupe.com · 02/10/2026There's an interview with Gordon Wallis (Reckless Rufus' graphics artist) in issue 24 of SAM Revival magazine, huge 11 page article "What Happened To... Sandman's Shadow" - a game he was designing for the SAM Coupe. SR24 -> www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11733788... #samcoupe 074
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 30/09/2026Right, thanks, that makes sense! I’m also writing a custom ROM to drive it (and therefore a custom interrupt handler too) so I was starting to suspect that’s where my problem is. Anyway Ed’s AY interface has plenty of jumper settings to choose from at least! 😅 000
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 30/09/2026Ooh yeah, heres a quick test with the key ring version. Looks pretty snazzy! 020
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 30/09/2026Funnily enough I’m right in the middle of experimenting with AY-on-SAM. I think the Speccy-style AY port addressing (FFFD, BFFD) is clashing with SAM’s MIDI (xxFD). It works if I use other ports (e.g. D0,D8) but perhaps a software translation to SAA might be the way to go! 120
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 30/09/2026Oh, never thought of that! Great idea. Could replace the pin with a wee magnet maybe. 🤔 💡 121
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 25/09/2026Folk are always giving it, "screaming into the void" and "staring into the abyss" but nothing says 2026 like "recessed LED lighting over the chasm" 010
Reposted by RobertPOLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 23/09/2026Take control of the HALCYON 🗡️ Defeat the RADON Daughters 🦅 Destroy the WORLD-EGG 🥚 BIRDCAGE is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation & XBOX consoles! www.eastasiasoft.com/games/BIRDCAGE 112955
Reposted by RobertAnimated ALex @animatedal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Who'd like to get involved in creating a game in BASIC for the ZX Spectrum - with your finished game being included on the USB 50? If this sounds like something you'd be interested in trying out or having a go at, check out the link below! usb50-zx-spectrum.itch.io #zxspectrum 11611
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 22/09/2026I’ve submitted a couple of disks that were missing from World of SAM archive. Issues 4A and 4B of diskzine SCPDU — SAM Coupé Public Domain Update. 050
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 22/09/2026I had a run-in with a fake/repainted GAL chip at the weekend (eBay, amirite?) It would read and write as expected in the programmer but would NOT work in-circuit. Anyway I wanted learn a bit more about these devices, found this video which was a good introduction: youtu.be/fo_WlA-kV… 050
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 22/09/2026Heh! Yes it’s a shame to entomb it in the blue box really! But it 🔊sounds🔊 great, that’s the main thing. 😆 230
Reposted by RobertJim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Great horror takes the mundane and contorts it into something terrifying, but I think Townfall might even take that a step further by using the trappings of survival horror to contextualise the real, intensely upsetting source material: some people have to grow up in Fife 14611
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 21/09/2026It’s a 4-ply PCB for extra comfort. Long, and very very strong. 010
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 11/09/2026I've added more tunes, *now* it's a jukebox. #RC2014 #SAA1099 #Z80 #50Hz #Click #Clack 163
Reposted by RobertRichie Morgan @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Funny that you don’t get to choose the music that plays in your head so you’re just in the middle of a stressful day giving it 3456
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 10/09/2026Ben's kits were (pun intended!) delightful. To say I was a bit rusty, well I had to upgrade my gas-powered soldering iron, and actually buy some flush cutters… but the build process went very smoothly thanks in large part to the methodical labeling and good instructions! Pic from August 2020. 170
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 09/09/2026Recently I was looking up info (about a ZX/Epson printer driver) and Google pointed me to a 1995 thread of a guy asking how to make backup tape of a worn-out original. Well, he must’ve managed because I now have that very copy—he’d put his name in some unrelated BASIC progs on the same tape. Heh! 020
Reposted by RobertAlex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 08/09/2026Wherein I briefly talk about my phone ringtone, the Roman Empire, ego stroking, eating a whole roast turkey, and, er, Stranger Than Heaven. Plus, comments from STH's producer & director on this game's rad feeling combat: 094
Reposted by RobertRichie Morgan @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Happy Star Trek Day eve! The I Hate Doctor Who feed will be taken over with Star Trek pods for the anniversary month! Please enjoy episode 1 of myself, Jim and Owen's unreleased show Odo's Bucket from 2024! Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2Sth... Youtube - youtu.be/jPE_2ebuEuY?... 75318
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 06/09/2026D’oh! Easily done, hopefully it’s ok! I was fiddling with the light diffuser on my LED matrix the other day, accidentally shorted-out two adjacent modules 😱 Thankfully it just hung the system and didn’t blow anything up! I’ve been using little insulation cards since, I ought to fit standoffs tho 😅 000
Reposted by RobertRobert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I've recently been playing with making my own ZX Spectrum ROM cartridges. I've written up how I created a cartridge for retro computing legend @onlyretrofans.com's game Jurl. When used on a ZX Interface 2, the game now boots instantly at power-on. www.robertprice.co.uk/robblog/maki...robertprice.co.ukMaking a Jurl ROM Cartridge for the ZX Spectrum - Robert PriceIf you are interested in Retro Computing, then you have probably come across Johnny Blanchard and his quest to port his game Jurl to as many platforms as possible. One of those platforms is the Sincla... 0113
Reposted by RobertVale @vale.rocks · 02/09/2026Respected friends and acquaintances, initial-scale is dead! We are freed of its tyranny. You no longer need to include it in your HTML head. It is an obsolete part of your head's meta viewport declaration. The details: vale.rocks/micros/20260... #WebDev #HTMLvale.rocksYou Don't Need Initial-Scale In Your HTML - 2 Sept 2026 13:50 UTC 410620
Reposted by RobertRichie Morgan @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A story of Friendship, Creativity, Fandom and Persistence. Fanning the Flame is a documentary film by myself and @markdonaldson.bsky.social and it tells the tale of Doctor Who’s most legendary fan film! In production and out in hopefully less than 35 years. 15352115
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 01/09/2026Heh, just the angle. I tried various angles and distances to get a video clip but couldn’t not make it look like a headache machine. 110
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 01/09/2026Nah not physically. Just grabbing the volume values from a buffer in the player routine (thanks to @stefandrissen.bsky.social’s E-Tracker disassembly!) and outputting to a different LED row on each loop. 120
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 31/08/2026I’ve got an 8x8 matrix display, but it needs to be multiplexed though so it’s hard to film without a photosensitivity warning 🤩 130
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 31/08/2026Yerzmyey’s Arcane Zone part two played back via E-Tracker v1.2 for SAM Coupé on #RC2014 with Quazar’s #SAA1099P sound card and using a Small Computer Central SC737 interrupt module for 50Hz playback timing. The front panel LEDs are showing SAA channel zero’s amplitude. 🤘🎶 2100
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 31/08/2026I had no phone for a couple of weeks there—due to a mishap with a swimming pool—and thus had no podcasts to listen to on-the-go either, so of course I did the sensible thing and dubbed them to cassette tape for portable listening. #elegant #civilised 120
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 26/08/2026🪄 Turbosound ✨ The Next has a nice implementation (actually 3x AY, the original was 2x). You can toggle ABC, ACB, Mono by twiddling ports. But it also has a bunch of DACs mixed in too anyway (SpecDrum etc). 110
Robert @flatduckrecords.co.uk · 26/08/2026Legend has it that "ACB" (left, right, both) is the Eastern Europe and demosceney way (so that's what I use because I'm Cool™) and "ABC" (left, both, right) is the Western way. But I read that Yerzmyey (one of my faves) says mono is best, so that's good enough for me! zxart.ee/author/2257/... 110
Reposted by RobertRandom Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I was looking at the list of things EA owns and I forgot they bought Codemasters a couple of years ago. UK players, you know what that means! You could get an egg in this auction! 812743
Reposted by RobertGammitin (Ben) 💾 @gammitin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Countless hours of fun in the 90's! 3343
