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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I look at #Commodore64 game "Championship Jetski Simulator", specifically the water particle plotter. This is my **300th Commodore 64 related video** When I started these videos I didn't imagine there would be so many! youtu.be/OYvu0lIxYPY

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C64 - Championship Jetski Simulator - Member bonus

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Impressive Knight Lore conversion for the VIC-20 ( expanded ). Great work by a an indie developer. www.indieretronews.com/2026/08/knig...

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Knight Lore - Ultimate Play the Game classic arrives on the Commodore VIC-20

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Paul "Paulie" Hughes @pauliehughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Never thought I'd hear my old SID driver playing perfectly on a Beeb, 38 years later! There are some clever buggers around :o)

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James @jamesrandall.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@markmoxon.bsky.social was going through your excellent Revs docs... I think the open question you have here (revs.bbcelite.com/source/main/...) is an implementation of the alpha max plus beta min algorithm (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_m...). Probably. Possibly. 😂

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Alpha max plus beta min algorithm - Wikipedia

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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Are you interested in Conway's Game of Life implemented in old 8-bit 6502/6510 assembly? Then this might be a treat video just for you! #Commodore64 #Conway'sGameofLife #Maths youtu.be/BqrMSJxxaAM

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C64 - Conway's Game of Life with source code (6502/6510)

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

SabreMan / Wulf artwork for the BBC Micro version of Knight Lore. Found on Paul Proctor's original development disks. I believe some of the Spectrum animation frames were removed to save memory as the BBC Micro only has 32K RAM vs the Spectrum's 48K RAM.

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Richard Horne @richrap3d.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have reached a significant milestone in the Handheld MiSTerFPGA (Pocket) project. It’s working! StarWars (Vector Arcade) running on the first issue prototype. More updates soon.

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James @jamesrandall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Added the article on how Exiles physics work to my breakdown and recreation website: bbcexile.com (direct link to article is bbcexile.com/how-exile-wo...). Lots of interactive demos showing how things work alongside the source and explanations. #bbcmicro #retroprogramming #retrogaming

Screenshot showing a demo of the physics

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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I look at #Commodore64 game "Flimbo's Quest" released by System 3 in 1990. The intro, sprite multiplexing, and how does the two layer parallax scrolling work? youtu.be/VpSiO6ZbJCQ

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C64 Memories - Flimbo's Quest

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two-player #BBCMicro Elite has just become the first game ever to support all the buttons on twin Delta 14B joysticks So two players can dogfight in Elite without either of them needing the keyboard For some of us, this is a dream come true! And it justifies all this hardware I keep buying... 😀

Key legend for the Delta 14B in two-player Elite

One Delta 14B joystick and the 14B/1 adaptor box

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today I learned that the name Ceefax is a phonetic play on the phrase "see facts". I'm not sure why I hadn't ever asked myself about the origin of the name.

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James @jamesrandall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've been spending some time analysing the code and systems of the epic 1988 BBC game Exile resulting in a (I hope) bit perfect recreation in TypeScript and a set of @markmoxon.bsky.social inspired deep dives into its working. bbcexile.com #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #gamehistory

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#C64 #Delphian progress: been working on a hyperspace effect this evening, and this is what I have so far... Oh, and star chart is kinda working already, so soon I'll be able to jump properly between stars.🙂

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Made a little write-up about my Commodore 64 debugger, IceBro Lite spacemoguls.com/2026/07/04/d...

icon for IceBro Lite, a Commodore 64 debugger

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 02/07/2026

I feel seen

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#C64 #Delphian progress: this is still a bit rough, but here's the latest video clip. From planet surface to space, and back again to landing on the planet and walking around. Needs a bit of optimisation in places, then comes a hyperspace jump!🙂

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#C64 #Delphian progress: finally got the code working for the transition from flight to entering space. Still WIP and a bit rough, and I still want to curve the horizon at high altitude. But here's what I have so far, from walking around, boarding a ship and flying around, to heading into space...

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Monte Boyd @monteboyd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Infe2tation is out now! monteboyd.itch.io/infe2tation The galactic sheriff is back to unravel the Mystery of the Crystal Moon. Run ’n’ gun action with massive levels, varied enemies, 4 distinct areas, fun power ups, and a mini-game featuring robo-sidekick, D3P-UT! #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit

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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Back in the day in 1997, when a 200 MHz StrongARM processor used software rendered 3D for a racing game. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eB1...

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Brutal Horse Power (Acorn Archimedes)

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Kaptajnen @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Did you know that Super Mario Bros 2. on the #NES had a bug where a single bit in its code was accidentally set to 0 instead of 1? Well, this little oversight resulted in the 8th frame of many animations in the game getting skipped over #retro #retrogaming #SMB #Nintendo #Mario #SuperMario #gaming

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Two-player #BBCMicro Elite now has a two-player dashboard Each player has their own set of indicators: speed, attitude control, fore and aft shields, laser temperature, energy, missiles and compass They share the scanner, which works well It’s starting to feel like a proper game! #retrocomputing

Two-player Elite with a two-player dashboard

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Loving this C64 easter Egg that someone at TT Games put into the new LEGO Batman game. I'm not sure who it was that did it, but I need to find out from some of my former colleagues! If you know please do tell!

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Monte Boyd @monteboyd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Infe2tation: coming soon! The galactic sheriff is back to unravel the Mystery of the Crystal Moon. Run ’n’ gun action with massive levels, varied enemies, 4 distinct areas, fun power ups, and a mini-game featuring robo-sidekick, D3P-UT! Late June release. #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit #indiegame

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you are free tomorrow do you fancy a visit to the Northwest Computer Museum to help them celebrate their 3rd birthday? Entry is free and there's so much to see and do. I hope to see you there, please say hello if you do! It's located in Leigh, near Manchester. Here's a flyer from their socials.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 01/06/2026

Managed to assemble and run the RAXOFT tests in my emulator last night and discovered that the main reason why the series generator wasn’t working was the SRA instruction. I wasn’t preserving the carry bit. (ANDing it back into bit 7 rather than ORing it). Job’s a good-un.

Screenshot of the emulator with a circle and 2 to the power of 5 being correctly calculated.

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Paul "Paulie" Hughes @pauliehughes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One more to celebrate my old mate Colin Porch’s sequel to Head over Heels - Return to Blacktooth. Released last week by @thalamusdigital.bsky.social

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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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Andy McCall 🔥 @andymccall.co.uk · 28/05/2026

Huge thanks to @h0ffman.bsky.social for the arcade Shinobi assets! I've now got full level loading, parallax scrolling and arcade-faithful platform jumps running on the Commander X16! Next up: Joe's weapons 🗡️ #CommanderX16 #Shinobi #RetroGaming #GameDev #PixelArt #Sega #retro #8bit

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

imagine making a multiplayer experience this good, imagine even thinking of it. FUCK.

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Paul "Paulie" Hughes @pauliehughes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A stressful week, so spent the weekend 3D printing some little trophies - one for Atic Atac and one for The Sentinel.

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Andrew Braybrook @uridiumauthor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Many thanks to everyone at the Zzap! Live 2026 event at the weekend. That just flew by. We did two guest talks, signed a stack of posters, shook many hands, and had some interesting discussions. I only managed to take one photo, but might have appeared in a few. Do please post them back as a reply.

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Hoffman @h0ffman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wednesday night coding and it's the first day of Cecconoid 2 - so come join the stream and watch me copy a folder and not understand how anything works anymore. twitch.tv/djh0ffman

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djh0ffman - Twitch

Demoscener, Musician, DJ, Coder. Loves retro systems. Streams DJ sets and other bits of interest.

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Andrew Braybrook @uridiumauthor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Here`s 1 for the C64 developers then. C64 hardware sprites needed 63 bytes of data for their image: 21 rows of 3, and they were aligned on 64-byte boundaries. Did anyone use that last byte? I was thinking that a default colour, multi-colour mode bit and double-scale bits would fit, but I never did!

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Snuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

CHUCKULUS BBC Micro Model B version just released ! github.com/Snuggsy187/C...

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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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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I look at #Commodore64 "Galencia" published in 2017 by Protovision. Lots of polish in this game, lovely sprite multiplexor, sprite colour splits, and parallax stars. It plays really well. youtu.be/iRsc1_75l54

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C64 Games - Galencia

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a stinky ox 🐂 @stinkyox.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I wish they'd take a properly hirez 360 camera on one of these space missions. I'd love to spark up a recreational cigarette, put some Floyd on, slap on a VR headset and just chill and watch the scenery.

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Paul "Paulie" Hughes @pauliehughes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Prepare to fall down a very deep rabbit hole! Great memories! Especially track "sparse42" on Conker's Bad Fur Day. I nearly burst a lung when I first heard @chrismarlow666.bsky.social do his turn as the Great Mighty Poo.

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geehaf.bsky.social @geehaf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I've waited long enough. I'm going to do it. Open the side border on the C64. I may be some time...accurate cycles.

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Der Motzmichel auf Bluesky in der EU!!! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱❤️🕊️☮️🏳️‍🌈🍍🤪🚀🖖🏽✌🏽🖕🏼🤡🙈🙉🙊👉🏽👌🏽🌮🥸🫣💩🌈 @maverick1966.app.leafplaza.eu · 28/03/2026

It is absolutely fascinating to witness that the #commodore #c64, after more than 40 years, is still so much fun for so many people. The #c64ultimate is hands down the best retro computer one can buy today. It delivers a perfect experience of how high-end computing was in the 80s with modern parts.

This is my old C64 from 1982, built in West Germany. The real deal. After more than 40 years, this machine still works! ...

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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I look at Commodore 64 "Karateka" published in 1985 by Brøderbund. The game uses two multicoloured bitmap screens, and I try to understand the pixel draw code... Can it be optimised? youtu.be/7iXIzHpycL8

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C64 Games - Karateka

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

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aNdy @andyvaisey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Update to my little #C64 tool that finds and saves ('rips') charsets from VICE snapshots, CCS64 freeze files or C64 memory dumps. Try Redjac v0.95! Now includes 64-bit Linux & ARM builds, as well as Windows. csdb.dk/release/?id=... @commodoreofficial.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social #commodore64

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Dan Tootill @dantootill.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

BHF64 case repair finally done! These are the 3D printed case clips as soon on @morefunmakingit.bsky.social's channel, which were made by PCBWay (I really need to get my own printer). Charity auction will finally be under way this weekend. 🙂

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RobSmithDev @robsmithdev.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It’s finally here! #MiSTer Floppy brings real floppy disks, #SCP and #IPF support to the #Minimig FPGA core! 💾 youtu.be/kN8TCz7Z0n8

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It's Finally Here — MiSTer Floppy Brings Real Floppy Drives to the MiSTer Minimig FPGA Core

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