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James G Watt is an artist, kinetic sculptor & robot builder. Creating whimsical art, quirky machines, and the occasional film prop. There's the odd retro computer game too.

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some pics of the pin. See my previous post for video:

05.03.2026 15:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I tiny programmable led badge (pin).

05.03.2026 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Those are also the sounds you make when you see the cost of the speech chip for Qbert.

02.03.2026 11:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It uses a DIGITALKER 65104 MOZER chip. the same chip is in a few arcade games like Zaccaria's "Scorpion". Yeh, canned speech, think it's a similar concept to the TMC0280 (Speak and Spell) with compressed samples. I've got ROM images for extra vocabulary so may attempt to add those.

02.03.2026 11:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DCP Digitalker Speech Pack on the Sinclair ZX81.

25.02.2026 22:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shouldn't 'A' be the 'P'?

21.02.2026 17:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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16.02.2026 13:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

David Cronenberg's note book.

15.02.2026 14:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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14.02.2026 16:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Snip snip s-plink!

12.02.2026 00:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another animated badge mechanism.

05.02.2026 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Programmable LED badge

04.02.2026 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Very quick wire and card automaton.
"So it goes".

03.02.2026 19:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A cool wizard blasts an off-page foe with his rainbow magic!
It's the cover of BreakSpace issue 4, for all you Spectrum game review needs.

A cool wizard blasts an off-page foe with his rainbow magic! It's the cover of BreakSpace issue 4, for all you Spectrum game review needs.

What the world needs now is ZX Spectrum games reviews.
And we have got you covered, World.

56 new games reviewed, a ZX Load museum interview, BASIC to type in, and loads more.
INCLUDING! The inarguable Game of the Year selection.

breakspace.itch.io/break-space-...

#retro #zxspectrum #skillo

16.01.2026 16:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks guys for including my game. Going to enjoy reading this, even if it takes a quarter of a year.

18.01.2026 16:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Break Space Issue 4 by BreakSpace Issue 4 of Break Space magazine for the ZX Spectrum

Thanks to the Break Space team for including my game "Boris and the Buses" in their free online Speccy magazine.

breakspace.itch.io/break-space-...

18.01.2026 16:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Automaton even.

12.01.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A very quickly built paper and wire automata.

12.01.2026 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With the recent peace prize, he was obviously practicing his 'release the dove' action.

14.12.2025 23:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Christmas Vectrex videogame "Chimney Hunt" doubles as Christmas Tree decoration with light up eyes.

10.12.2025 19:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Clearly something has changed. The only question is, is it too late for them to change back?

06.12.2025 23:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OH it SHOULD be. Genuine national treasure.

05.12.2025 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok, I don't know why but I genuinely laughed out loud at this one. People are now looking at me funny.

05.12.2025 18:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My choice of dessert to accompany Stranger Things would be some upside-down cake.

04.12.2025 23:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Quatermass and the Pit" but sexy.

03.12.2025 21:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Our show in Glasgow was made extra special by James Watt, a builder of automata and other amusements
Our show in Glasgow was made extra special by James Watt, a builder of automata and other amusements YouTube video by Charming Disaster

Charming Disaster shared some video of my HurdyGurdy-Tron and me. I'm very happy :) youtube.com/shorts/-fCg5...

01.12.2025 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'll be exhibiting a couple of my Art Amusement Machines tomorrow at:

28.11.2025 12:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The retro videogame factory earlier today:

26.11.2025 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yesterda evening's drawing at Dr Sketchies, Glasgow.

20.11.2025 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The nights have drawn in. It's cold out there, well, not if you have a personal flame thrower.

17.11.2025 23:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0