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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

DAMN... I really should have specified an amount when I made a wish to win the lottery!! 🙃

Screen grab of phone notification winning £1 from The National Lottery

Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Finally started reading @tonywarriner.bsky.social 's book. So good already! It's not even a coding book, but already learnt 2 z80 ASM optimisations! #gameDev

Holding up Tony Warriner's book called Revolution, whilst sat on Bournemouth beach

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There's worse places to be to get up to speed with ZXSpectrum Machine Language #ZXSpectrum #asm #Devon #holidayBooks

Holding the book "Spectrum Machine Language for the absolute beginner" in Lee Bay Devon UK

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SO I'm gonna target a game to the Spectrum Next and see what's what, looks like it's a great space to try and do something fun. Anyone else done much on this platform? #gamedev #retrodev #ZXNext #ZXSpectrumNext

Lovely picture of the ZX Spectrum Next, in black, taken from the https://www.specnext.com/ website

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Had such a great time at South West Amiga Group (SWAG) today, nice to celebrate 40 years of the Amiga!! #SWAG #Amiga40

Village Hall full of Commodore Amiga fans

cupcake with an Amiga 40 SWAG sticker on

Urban X Warriors, new video game coming to the Spextrum Next and Amiga

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Actually getting a chance to play around with a new game idea and trying out a different approach to the level map foundations. It's early days. Massive thank you to @oskarstalberg.bsky.social for sharing your knowledge and experience with the community. #gamedev #indiedev

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

It's my first ever time in Liverpool and I'm at BlytheCon 2025! @blytheconuk.bsky.social Great experience so far, my kids are loving it! #BCUK2025

BlythCon 2025 at the Florrie in Liverpool, a room full of people buying, selling and celebrating Blythe dolls

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Mine... is a bit boring... I think I created a new account when I started to do VR dev type things :/ pretty sure I had a Steam account way older than that?

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It's...WAR! Awesome, the table top game I backed has just arrived, can't wait to play this. Great Kickstarter campaign by @xiotex.bsky.social very well managed! #tabletop #ks

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just dawned on me it was 10 years ago I met @rjmical.bsky.social at Amiga 30 in Amsterdam, "Let me take a selfie". A weekend that would change my life. (my wife says she's never seen me happier than this pic) #Amiga30 #Amiga40 #Amiga500 #Amiga1200

A selfie of myself with RJ Mical with expressions of laugher and happiness

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Stumbled in to ChessFest at Trafalgar Square... its mental, in a good way! #ChessFest

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

At Develop Brighton, looks like going to be a great week ahead. Come over and say hi! #gamedev #indiedev

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Great week at Bath Digital Festival!! Amazing conversations and have met great people!

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Gutted we thought of this after @quangdx.com left! Next time!! Have had an awesome day, great students, lots of inspiration!

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

VERY proud of my mate @rocketjez.bsky.social who has had his Game Boy game published!! Go get it here: www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/squi... #gameboy #retrogaming #indiedev

New Game Boy game called Squirrel Falls, picture shows the box art, green game boy cartridge and the manual

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Had some visitors when I got home from work... that's lucky right?

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And if 24 hours isn't quick enough... learn it in an Instant!!!

A wrox book called INSTANT C++ Programming

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Stunning morning in Bristol, I should prob have Massive Attack on my headphones as I wonder. Anyone heading to the South West Founders meet up tonight? #founders #startups #indiedev #gamedev

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I blame YOU for the games industry going to shit, yeah, you copied that floppy didn't you, now look what's happened!! #gamedev #indiedev

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It was great to visit the Barbie Exhibition at the Design Museum this week. It's important to get away from desk and make your mind think of different things. Also, just having fun with the fam #gamedev #iamKenough

a man posing like a fool inside a giant Barbie doll retail box

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Found this in one of my boxes... will it charge?!?!

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Was there ever a follow up to Chuckie Egg using the Doom game engine?! I reckon that would work right? #zxspectrum #doom #gamedev

A screen shot of the game Chuckie Egg on the ZX Spectrum

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Heading home from the US. 2 countries speaking same language... very different cultures!

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hey @dawse.bsky.social were we talking about this meme sticker last year? Still seeing a lot of them around

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Now somewhere along Daytona Beach. A video game made me want to tick this off #retrogaming

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

First time in a BUC-EE'S, that was quite something!

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Haven't properly played with this yet, I expect it'll be my Xmas downtime project. Already started to code a game using z88dk #zxspectrum #gamedev

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

On projects where there can be a lot of data tweaking or being pulled from say a JSON file, knocking out a quick visualiser is pretty easy in the Unity Editor and can save you a BUNCH of time messing around #unitytips #gamedev #indiedev

Screen grab of a Unity project in the Editor showing a custom visualiser for game data for a plane formation game.

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Have you been getting this?! I've had this error for a while now and it's driven me up the wall, but FINALLY found a fix. You just need to check your PATH variables, all explained here: discussions.unity.com/t/workaround... #gamedev #indiedev #unity #unity6

Screen grab of Unity Hub failing to install Unity Editor

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

9) Viking Battle For Asgard - Don't know why, but I love this game. I'm keen to replay it, but it's not on the back compatibility list (I've not checked in a while). Need to repair my Xbox360! Easy fighting mechanics and adventure, just as I like it. #xbox360

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

8) Curse of Enchantia - Did you like this one? I remember it getting mixed reviews and too bizarre, but I loved it. I was sad once I had completed it #Amiga500

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Retro Rich : LOiD 💾 ➡️ IAAPA EUROPE @retrorich.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

7) Shadow of the Beast II - You hated it, I loved it. I've seen that game over screen too many times. No game since has given me the same vibes and awesome music. It's the game that convinced us to get an Amiga, which in turn changed my life #Amiga500

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