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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope no-one is holding their breath waiting 😉

Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm impressed by some of the AI stuff being shared, but it's in a different category to the projects that have been lovingly hand crafted with much blood, sweat and tears. It's a bit like having a microwave meal, it can taste ok but will never be as nice as a well prepared and home cooked meal.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm banning myself from using AI at home, we're using it very heavily at work so when I eventually get around to something at home I want to step back to the "good old days" of working it out myself. I had so much fun writing Apache Canyon, I want to recapture that feeling.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great film/book 😃 My wife claims she still has nightmares featuring Morlocks.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Probably this one, a Christmas staple when I was younger. I watched it again a couple of years ago and it's still a classic.

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On My Way: Steve McQueen Motorcycle Jump

ALT: On My Way: Steve McQueen Motorcycle Jump

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Astonishing! Imagine if this had been released in the 80s, I suspect you would have ended up on trial for witchcraft 😃

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Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

ALT: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was banned from watching Alien, "luckily" a friend had it on video so the ban was circumvented, I was probably around 13.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seeing Oliver Reed transform into a werewolf on Nationwide (an early evening show back in the 70s) did it for me. No idea how old I was but way too young for that!

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're staying right next to an RSPB reserve, it's so peaceful 😀

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A break away from everything, lots going on at the moment not all good so luckily we have a "long weekend" away to distract us. Down on the south coast for some nature time to recharge our batteries.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still a huge amount of CPU being used I guess? How much do you have left for "the rest of the game"?

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah 💡 That clicks now, thanks for the explanation.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having a "brain off" day, all too frequent unfortunately. I'm struggling to understand any of these explanations or how 4 screen buffers can help 😔 Is this hardware scrolling or clever plotting?

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've also been a bit sidetracked with getting a good Amiga emulation going on my Pi 500+ so have been reliving the late 80s early 90s rather than 8bit

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Permission granted 😃 One of these days I will get around to finishing the "special edition" version, mojo required....

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pixel 6 Pro here still going strong - shame it won't be getting any OS updates going forward as there is nothing wrong with it and the battery lasts a full day 😞

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have a Google of "Chrome LNA". It's a new security feature that has been causing some fun and games in particular for enterprise s/w as it's quite good at reacting to false positives 😞 Lots of "fun" at work with this one.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That looks like the same setup they had at the London Science Museum a few years back, was great to experience some old games and hardware when I visited it with my youngest. I believe Arcadian (Dave) on Stardot has something to do with running these.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't remember that, not even sure I had Frak on the Elk back in the day. I'll have to fire it up at some point 😃 Glad to hear your mojo has returned, mine is still off adventuring on its own somewhere - it had better be storing up lots of inspiration on it's travels or there will be trouble!

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

See also Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga, a great tech demo but no fun at all to play.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I remember the anticipation of getting this, followed swiftly by the disappointment. Looks wonderful, plays horribly on the Electron at least 😞 The sequel was much better if I recall. Still amazing to see what Chris Roberts went on to do after this though.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Alnwick castle is also nice if you get a chance to visit, it has an amazing tree house in the grounds.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think Musk owns or owned the original from the film. My favourite Bond car, I had the dinky toy version of it and the helicopter. A real Esprit would be an amazing weekend toy but I also suspect that "don't meet your heroes" might be an appropriate phrase.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Had a quick go this afternoon, looks lovely but I had absolutely no idea what I was meant to be doing so probably need to do some reading up before trying again. As ever, you've done an amazing job 👍

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You're tempting me to try using AssemblyScript to compile my Claude built TypeScript Electron emulator to wasm. It runs pretty much full speed all the time in TS but it's quite CPU hungry so I wonder if switching it to wasm might make it slightly more efficient 🤔

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is lovely, a very original way of showcasing your amazing work. I will mention it to my work colleague Dave Hanlon 😀

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Escape pod? Could make for some fun/annoying accidental button presses.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not a game I'm familiar with and I'm terrible at finding the patience to finish these sort of games, but happy to try it out at some point 👍

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Good = I'm merging two of my in progress projects Bad = It might end up being able to play Guardian better than me 🤦‍♂️

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

More experimenting with Claude, I got it to add an mcp server to the emulator then hooked it up to my "disassemble Guardian" project. It's done a great job of filling in some of the missing gaps 😄 Next step, I want to see if it can learn how to play Guardian...

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yep, still something nice about the simplicity of 6502 though - it was such an elegant solution to the problems it was designed for and astonishing how long it lived and what it ended up being used for.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I remember really struggling with Z80 code at uni, it felt so alien compared to 6502. Strangely though, I switched quite happily from 6502 to 68000 ⁉️

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It has mentioned checking timing values against the FPGA project, I've not done this yet so I wasn't surprised Firetrack didn't work.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The sound handling is still a bit buggy, it can get a bit "bubbly" is the best way to describe it. It's almost there, but does suffer from timing being off a little sometimes.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Your chuckulus loading screen goes from 0 to instant 😄 Cycle times for the 6502 bit should be 100% accurate. ULA stuff has some comments about some screen timing that needs to be checked.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Elite compendium from @markmoxon.bsky.social also works but the emulator doesn't yet have a way to handle function key presses so I wasn't able to launch :)

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I wasn't expecting the screen blank/split code to work at all - this is the first test, also the first test of the SWRAM code too with missile command.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

More testing :) Chukulus from @snuggsy187.bsky.social, missile command from @tubeula.bsky.social and flappy bird from @0xc0de.bsky.social all work perfectly much to my surprise! Firetrack almost works but is a little jittery - however I know this is doing some very tricky stuff with the screen split

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This emulator needs a name - maybe ElkAI ? ;)

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

More work with Claude eventually resulted in disc loading working, so I was finally able to see if Apache Canyon would run on it.... It looks much better in the browser, for some reason I can't get OBS to capture nicely from the browser

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It took a fair bit of prompting and lots of trial and error, it was only once it discovered Elkulator as a source of truth that the missing bits of the jigsaw puzzle clicked into place.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think it was correct about Electroniq. But yes, it was very good at getting lots of other things very confidently wrong.

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Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It came up with the retro look UI all on its own, I just asked it to create a debugger interface.

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