Reposted by Chris JamiesonNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140696478
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ahhh I missed so many good bands during the 2010s, I blame the kids! Just getting into DIIV and they are very much my jam... 001
Reposted by Chris JamiesonIan Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The core I’ve been working on for the Graphics Gremlin HDMI now supports the following: - Full VGA feature set (includes CGA and EGA) - VESA support for 8-bpp bank-switched modes: 320x200, 320x240, 320x400, 400x300, 640x400, 640x480, 800x600 - MDA as a configurable secondary adapter on 4-bpp HDMI 711122
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242672684
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Oof wasn't mentally prepared to wake up to a double bit of fascism this morning, really need to stop casually checking the news whilst making breakfast... 000
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Since we’re inevitability doing “no return to the failed policies of the 1970s”. Yes, I know there are all sorts of qualifications to the figures and circumstances have changed, but it’s really not as simple as so many appear to think. 295
Reposted by Chris JamiesonMark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Two-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 36612
Reposted by Chris JamiesonMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 09/05/2026This is appalling and totally unsurprising. All populists attack the press and rely on their own personal media to spread their propaganda. It should be resisted at every turn. 18253108
Reposted by Chris Jamieson☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The difference is, the UK’s king only has a ceremonial role in its democracy. Whereas the US now only has a ceremonial democracy. 1210212
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Holy-Chuck-Knuckles! I've finally managed to get round to trying @snuggsy187.bsky.social AMAZING Chuckulus and I've such a big grin on my face - astounding achivement, really fun to play, great Chuckie Egg feel and looks amazing, bravo! (and my ElkULA replacement is happy with it too, phew!) 1162
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Yeah this article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... seems to get at what I think is a major issue in UK at the mo "those on top have discovered an even easier formula for building wealth: buy up the basic tenets of our lives, heap them with debt, and push the consequences on to the little people."theguardian.com 000
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDaphne Blake @itscrapcontent.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Do you like retro games ? And do you like lists ? And do you like 80s music ? Then you might like this itv chart show type rip off but games with a hint of music …..thanks youtube.com/watch?v=Koa8...youtube.com#That-Retro-Chart-Show Jun - 1989YouTube video by Daph Blake 2137
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/03/2026"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..." 14639179
Reposted by Chris JamiesonSnuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 12/03/2026CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳 github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware ! ....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social 177130
Reposted by Chris JamiesonJay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This phenomenal bit of 8-bit music is wasted on an Amstrad game from 1987 that no one remembers. youtu.be/Y8CMScjD82o?...youtu.beHydrofool Spectrum In-Game MusicYouTube video by Chris Wilkins 11544
Reposted by Chris JamiesonStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comSo, the smartphone ban in schools is going well … the Stephen Collins cartoonWhat are the implications of the smartphone ban for education? 29124
Reposted by Chris JamiesonTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...youtube.comYou are being misled about renewable energy technology.YouTube video by Technology Connections 667109703555
Reposted by Chris JamiesonHavoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far. 278126505564
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Spotted these in an Italian deli out and about and had to pick them up after @adriansdigitalbasement.com featured them in a turbo mail call and they looked so good! 200
Reposted by Chris JamiesonTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 21/01/2026When I worked in hotels, calling our local phone number - get this - made the phone ring at the front desk and it was MY JOB to answer that phone and help people. I want us to return to that world. It was more fun when we just helped each other and didn't try to avoid each other. 534715
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDudley of Yesterzine @yesterzine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025It takes a village. Lee is also there. 0112
Reposted by Chris Jamieson𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚕𝚒 @rudolphucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025A rare early rehearsal shot from Star Wars of Chewbacca and Han Solo before they settled on the final costumes we all love today 15313
Reposted by Chris JamiesonMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 15/09/2025If you’ve enjoyed my videos over the last few years I’d love to see you at my live shows. My tour starts in a month and sales have been slower than last year - probably partly because I’m not on X anymore. But it’s a fun show and I’d love more people to see it! www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...livenation.co.ukMatt Green Tickets, Tour and Concert Dates – www.livenation.co.uk 1312670
Reposted by Chris JamiesonJim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025View from my studio. I know because of all the immigrants coming here and erasing our culture it's hard to tell - but this is actually in England. 8806
Reposted by Chris JamiesonTomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 24/08/2025i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r... 934363
Reposted by Chris JamiesonEleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025In case you're wondering why racists are scrawling the George cross everywhere instead of the Union Jack, it's because it's much easier to draw and they're all very thick 832244
Reposted by Chris JamiesonJay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Oops. Forgot to mention the *minimum* age. You ALSO have to be OLD enough to be a university student. So no children or babies please. 811321
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Currently on Caledonian Sleeper train to Aberdeen, love it... Night night 😴 020
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Had a fantastic time at The Woodcraft Folk #camp100 celebrations, many thanks to the organisers for all their hard work. It had a great festival feel. Loved meeting people of all ages and I even remembered some names too! 110
Reposted by Chris JamiesonMark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming 1118844
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Oof feeling gloomy today. Really feel post WWII folks tried to setup things to stop that kind of thing happening again and it's just been slowly demolished in the decades since as just wasteful red-tape and all that, so here we are again... 020
Reposted by Chris JamiesonRoseTintedSpectrum @rosetintedspectrum.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This Man Is Buying Commodore. 7447
Reposted by Chris Jamiesonmuseumofcomputing.bsky.social @museumofcomputing.bsky.social · 01/06/2025The Museum of Computing would like to thank @shortcircuit.org.uk for organising the amazing RetroFest event in our home town of Swindon. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and we met so many wonderful visitors and exhibitors. We look forward to supporting next year's event! 2236
Reposted by Chris JamiesonSimon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I went down a rabbit hole. Looking at Google's search results, the individual film review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning that it's given the most prominence to isn't from a big outlet. It's from someone who appears to have written two movie reviews in their life. #filmsky #aifilmstories.co.ukGoogle, and the mystery of its top-ranked Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning reviewThe most prominent review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning via Google search is, well, something of a mystery. 77127
Reposted by Chris JamiesonCyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Most of my posts here are about DOS. But about a decade ago I wrote a trio of games for the Sinclair #zxspectrum 16k. You can find the collection on Itch: itch.io/c/1083708/th...itch.ioThe Cyningstan ZX Spectrum 16k Collection - Collection by CyningstanA collection by Cyningstan 23012
Reposted by Chris JamiesonGosunkugi @gosunkugi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Remastering Star Wars: A New Hope, but the only change is adding a HP Sauce bottle to all the tables. 083
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/04/2025If you are going to report how "reciprocal" these tariffs are or how they quantify trade barriers and economic injustices... ... please keep in mind they're not, becuase that would have required work. Instead just did: COUNTRY'S US SURPLUS --------------------------- = Rate% ITS EXPORTS TO US 19286149
Reposted by Chris JamiesonJames Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 02/03/2025FB reminds me of a 13 year old letter to the Daily Mail which rendered all subsequent letters to the Daily Mail redundant. This was the pinnacle. 2940392
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Finally! A versioning system I understand without getting tied up in knots about which digit I should bump in my stupid projects! 010
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Made my own little trace finding, continuity testing brush probe out of some old multi core electrical cable. Just soldered the ends together and attached to a banana jack lead, works quite well, happy with that. 1101
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/01/2025Somewhere in China a terrified nerd is trying to explain to a panel of interrogators that the huge USD transfers he's received are just fees for helping the world's richest man, who has the direct ear of the US President-elect, fake being really good at the early-access version of niche video game. 113124
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Last chance to get Moustachios Midnight Moonshine, an amazing ZX Speccy compilation for a good cause! ko-fi.com/s/1bbc65e2e2 I've just snapped up my copy after family members failing to take the hints for Xmas!ko-fi.comMoustachio's Midnight Moonshine - Midnight Brew Games's Ko-fi ShopA compilation of our full digital catalogue, plus a wide selection of the very best in Spectrum bedroom coding from the last few years. All proceeds ... 010
Reposted by Chris JamiesonSnuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Chuckulus > Christmasulus Just wanted to say Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year ! Looking forward to more retro shenanigans in 2025 ! 🥰 .....Still haven't fixed that sound ! 🙄 1234
Reposted by Chris JamiesonWhatHoSnorkers @whathosnorkers.bsky.social · 22/12/2024youtu.be/mZ9GT_OwsR4 Look how lovely and blue that sky is! It must be CHRISTMAS!youtu.beClyde Bish delivers Santa Post for the ZX Spectrum (1983)YouTube video by WhatHoSnorkers 11911
Chris Jamieson @mogwaay.bsky.social · 22/12/2024This just looks incredible, I am just in love with it, and on an Elk too! 130
Reposted by Chris JamiesonSnuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 21/12/2024WIP ! Slow progress due to pre-xmas chaos, but getting some extra features in like bouncing off walls, jumping off / grabbing ladders ! A few alignment issues to sort out, but it's getting there ! 🤯 The sound has gone a bit weird - must fix that ! 🙄 6296
Reposted by Chris JamiesonDudley of Yesterzine @yesterzine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024If you're going to be alone or too not alone any time over this period, we're running Sub5000TV again on the 25th, and forever on demand. A feel good youtube gaming/retro TV channel that never mentions any specific holiday. To give you an idea, here's last year's. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comSub5000TV 2023 - YouTube 3127