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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I genuinely thought something looking this good would be impossible on the humble beeb. And defiantly running at that speed. This is awesome.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It may be a small window, but I reckon you could knock out a rather reasonable Ghosts 'n' Goblins clone ;)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm looking forward to the "four seasons pizza" level. Each quarter of the map is made up of a diffent style.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Id say, turn it on its head and put in the 9 games you despise ... but again ... you'd be hard pressed to narrow it down to 900 let alone 9.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a distinct feeling you have not entered into the true spirit of this baulderdash/cobblers/tripe.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How can someone claim "Its based on my own work" when they use AI to amend there work ...the AI has been trained on hundreds if not thousands of other peoples work :(

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First game on the "100 BBC Micro games" list ... 3D Dotty. Todays progress .... #Pico8 #Retro #Remakes #GameDev #BBCMicro

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just found a YouTube vid showing "100 BBC Micro games in 10 minutes" and wondered ...could I use this as a wip list and and just remake all these games, 1 by 1, in pico8 ;)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Windows 11 Optimise and Defrag app is crap ... whatever happened to the thing that showed all the blocks being moved ? That was so much fun, I could loose hours watching that work :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh wow...i never realised that. 40 years later and im learning new stuff all the time :) Thanks

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What the hell have the BBC done ? in the TV Film "An Adventure in Space and Time" it used to have Matt Smith show up at the end. Now they've scrubbed him and put Ncuti Gatwa there instead ! Do they intend changing it after every new iteration of the Doctor from now on then ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think the intro screens look rather nice, don't you ? #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake #SabreWulf

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That is sweet. I expect table 1( of 4) of Pinball Dreams by sometime next week

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Can yo please tell me what temperature and time I need in the oven to cook my BroadBand ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have either of you tried porting Sabre Wulf over, or has that been done and I've missed it ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm pretty sure we're well overdue a series 3 of Look Around You. We've seen the 70's (series 1) and the 80's (series 2), so its a no brainer its time for the 90's :) #LookAroundYou

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yay, thank you. Now expect a Pico8 version ! Right after I finish Space Cabbage, and SabreWulf, and Track and Field, and Alien8, and Bank Panic, and 1942, and PudPud, and GYRUSS, and Cyberdroid, and GORF, and Automania, and UniWarS, and The Pyramid, and Empire Strikes Back, and ...

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can I ask, were did you get the data for all the screens/gfx ? Was it a disassembly of the code, or did you hack the z80 code yourself? Im looking to do a version myself and any help would be greatly appreciated ;)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you need help there's a massive amount of help and advice available on the Lexaloffle site. And the discord channel also has no end of help. There's also tones of tutorials out there, Nerdy Teachers a lot of help as well as Krystman who does a lot of you tube tutorials :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Its "almost" done ;) so heres the page ready for it :) #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake #SpaceCabbage minionsoft.itch.io/pico8-space-...

minionsoft.itch.io

Pico8 Space cabbage by MinionSoft

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Its always nice to look over old iterations of games you write, it just shows how far you've progressed and all the obstacles you've overcome ;)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When is Canada going to rename the maps so they start saying "United States of Paedophilia" ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Isn't "responsible LLM usage" an Oxymoron ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Looking a wee bit too hazardous I think ! #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Crap-on-a-cracker, that thunder is loud. Its exploding right above the house now. I hope she can take it.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Woohoo, 6 of the 9 stages now implemented :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coding a remake of a game I created 20 years ago, and I'm stumped for the movement pattern of one baddie. I just cant seem to get it to work. After hours and hours of tinkering and thinking I finally resorted to looking at the old source code. And all I was missing was +RND(32) to the X comparisons!

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh for pete's sake, wont someone just assassinate him so that the world can start to heal and become a nice place to live again ?

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Its way too long overdue I did a remake of this ... can you tell what it is tho ? #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also, as a side not, the CPC 464 has the same GFX chip thingy, so should be a doddle to cobble together some routines to cope with that as well :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

More fool you to rely on ChatGPT for an accurate answer ! ;)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nice to see you back coding again ;) Shame there's no Avril Lavigne references tho :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You got me there for a second, until I realised today must be the 1st of April !

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

WOW, Ive never seen (nor heard) of this one. One defo for the collection. Im on the lookout for it now myself :)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Another week, another W.I.P. :) The titles are now being added, this means its coming to the 97% complete phase ... which is as we all know is were most projects get abandoned :( #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake #UniWarS

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a word from the English Oxford dictionary that isn't "the" and that is in either popular or unpopular use.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Stab in the dark here, but the brown trash can lid thing ... that's not the Millennium Dustbin by any chance ? (never actually saw it back in the 80s, but heard of it no end ... on Get fresh I think)

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What's the record for number of W.I.P.s started in a single day ? I'm up to 3 so far today ;) #Pico8 #GameDev

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

never mind...i think if i look carefully (which is what I should have done to start with) you're already do that.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Looking really nice :) Is it worth considering changing the way the "invaders" move to be more like the original arcade version ? That way you'll only be updating 1 invader per frame instead of all 24 ? (or change to vertical line per frame etc ? )

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh dear lord, I think I'm having (another) stroke ! I loathe football with a passion, but flicking through the channels I stumbled upon it, and actually found myself watching and enjoying it ! It only lasted 2 minutes though when I realised and switched it off.

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Reason I ask is, I don't remember coding a boulder in mine, and in fact having just tried it, there isn't one. You can stay stray on that screen forever !

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Minion @minionsoft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Looking nice. One question tho (not related to ur excellent work tho) but what triggers the boulder to start rolling past ?

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