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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 5h

Looking at the first port for Quantum Hop, it's going to be the Amstrad CPC. I was tempted to do CPC+/GX4000 so I could use it to test my CeePCee SDK, but this means I can reuse a lot of my existing Speccy code and CI

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

Since the 2022 accord, or festival de plastique, 3D printers now rarely try to destroy their owners and often produce great works of art, including small models of boats and poorly constructed tree baubles

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

A reminder that with some 3D printing, some electronics and a bit of time you can build your own - yes it's much chunkier, but it also has a keyboard codeberg.org/Jonn-reenthu... #RetroComputing #Maker #opensource

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PortaSpeccy

A portable Spectrum Next running on a Tang Nano 20k

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Ray @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Will you just let women have pockets already?

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

It would be the height of cheek if the only disk they blocked was their own

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

I think, in this case, it’s because three of the boxes aren’t proper disk boxes at all, so the disks can’t be seen from the front or back

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

How dare you, many sunflowers beetle red marigold 5545446

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

Yes indie.io the thing that will make me use your service or buy games you manage will definitely be signing me up to a bunch of newsletters that I neither want nor can stop.

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

I actually can’t remember, I still have the boxes of disks - i should go through them again at some point

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

Yes, I think that was actually the external drive that also came with the auction

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 29/09/2026

That day when I won an Amiga auction that came with a ton of copied disks but an original disk for XCopy

An image of a blue 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled "X-COPY & CYCLONE," indicating it is a special version for power computing. The disk is made by Verbatim and has a label with a serial number and contact information

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 28/09/2026

A warning before showing pictures of pure retro computing filth please - I shall need a moment to compose myself

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 28/09/2026

Ok after working very late last night and most of my lunch break, the chunk movement is very wrong, but other than that - it's not far off.

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 28/09/2026

I swear this is even harder than the last time I tried to animate something in Blender

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

It's the reason the UK highstreet collapsed - too many shops in the 80s had to pay for unneeded extensions just to hold stock

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

Trying to use blender to make an animation of a spacestation exploding - it's not going quickly

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

Ok, I have to start thinking about the art for Herexis. Currently i'm using a few packs from itch.io - and they look ok but there's no consistency. Plus I need a title screen, some kind of intro and a couple of ending screens. I'd normally use Fiverr but its all AI slop now

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

Today i've been doing some work on the procedural generator for the maps in Herexis. And i've decided on the first end game scenario, i'm adding a space station called The Hive which is the root of all pirate activity, destroying that will be an end state. #IndieDev

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

I realise it’s for clickbait but all the YouTubers with the “we bought the cheapest F1 car from XYZ” no you didn’t , not every open wheel racer is an F1 car

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

Agatha Christie and 'Gentlemans special interest' is a hell of a crossover

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Frederic Souchu @fsouchu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#picotron port of #doom under way major roadblock lifted today: sprite masking against geometry 😰 a *lot* remains to be done - stay tuned!!

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

It's ok, they were just 'normal' evil

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 27/09/2026

Well that's the What's Ken Making channel unsubbed from. I especially like his comment on how he can't understand all the hate he's getting for showing off the M64 because "its just a game" yes, and because it's just a game you don't need to promote ones from horrific people and companies

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 26/09/2026

After a whole bunch of hours i've knocked the prototype of Herexis into an alpha. It's nowhere near finished of course, I still have to make "the game" portion, but a lot of the systems are in place #indiedev tonsomo.itch.io/hexeris

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Herexis by Tonsomo Entertainment

Dangerous Mercs doing Dangerous Jobs

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 26/09/2026

I made a sort of identikit system using someone's portrait graphics by splitting them into 4 bands. It produces some of the most horrendous images and I definitely have to fix it before proper launch, but right now I find it very amusing #IndieDev

A snapshot from a game called Herexis, showing a character creator with options for Skin, Forehead, Eyes, Nose, Gear, Hair, Hair colour and Accessories

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 26/09/2026

Designing mouse pointers like it's 1990 #IndieDev (Fortunately, with the aid of the great Aseprite.

A snapshot of an Aseprite window, it shows four pointers in a sprite sheet, including a target, a dotted box, a hand picking something up and a green cross

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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A full race gameplay from ZERO this week for #screenshotSaturday ZERO is an upcoming Mode 7 racer for Game Boy Color. #gameBoy #indieDev #retroGaming #fZero

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 25/09/2026

While I was trawling through my old projects on this new laptop, I stumbled on Herexis which is a very simple 2D strategy game in the style of Laser Squad. I don't remember why I called it Herexis, it's sci-fi based and that sounds more fantasy. Anyhoo, I might try and get it to proto state

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 25/09/2026

3000 downloads over on tonsomo.itch.io mostly thanks to the recent rush on Quantum Hop which is now my most downloaded game. Thanks to everyone who has played it, shared it and reviewed it

a snippet from a webpage with writing that says 3,022 Downloads

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 25/09/2026

I fucking hate arseholes like this, when I did my Kickstarter I worked myself sick and went £2000 in debt because I’d made a mistake with delivery costing, but I refused to fail delivering it

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QuangDX @quangdx.com · 25/09/2026

FOR SALE: Atari ST Colour Monitor SC1224 Tested and working. £300 Located in London, UK

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 25/09/2026

What annoys me most about this is the fact they’re crowdfunding it, so this is a conscious decision to use LLM art, because they could have just factored real artists into their campaign

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Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 25/09/2026

Still determined to bring this to BlueSky: #FollowFriday #FF The thread: 🧵

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're: - a playwright - Scottish or based in Scotland - and have had at least two plays professionally produced, submissions for new work open till 4 October. www.rawmaterialarts.com/raw-potential #theatre

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Raw Potential — Raw Material

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 24/09/2026

It’s amazing they always forget to mention that he now works for Meta

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 24/09/2026

It’s because it’s not news … it’s an ad

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 24/09/2026

Hmm, going through my godot projects list is almost as bad as my retro ones. A few of these I at least released a prototype of, but a few didn't even get that far. I might revisit Herexis, because it wasn't that far off at least a prototype if I remember rightly. #Indie

A list of folders with names that suggest games

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 22/09/2026

Anything you do seems to trigger a new review cycle. I think they might have over corrected a bit

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 22/09/2026

I really hate the Android test track system, there just seems to be so many moving parts before you get anything working

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 22/09/2026

macOS, Linux, Windows tonsomo.itch.io/circe iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/KX9Xnh2z Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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cIRCe by Tonsomo Entertainment

An attempt to make a simpler IRC client

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