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I'm Paul, an indie software developer and retro machine lover; especially the C64! I also do 3d printing when I can, but my printer is in storage right now.

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One of my watercolour studies of irises

One of my watercolour studies of irises

One of my watercolour studies of irises
#watercolour #watercolor #iris #botanicalart

04.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 4610 πŸ” 384 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 9
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My multi-cpu assembler, OmniAsm now supports the GB CPU as well as Z80 and 6502!! I still need to tweak the parsing of some opcodes like (FF00+XX) and SP+XX, for example, but I think the rest are working :)

03.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We currently offer over 28 vintage systems for free remote guest access featuring historic operating systems, programming languages and games. BOOTSTRAP members may request personal accounts on these machines. Thank you for supporting icm.museum

#vintagecomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputing

10.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've added interrupts into my OmniPas tool, my Pascal -> Z80 cross-compiler :) You can hook up to the vBlank interrupt, and also wait for the vertical blank! #zxreposts #zx #z80
interrupt unit
pastebin.com/nksgCLkU
and an example project using it
pastebin.com/Lc30yW3G

10.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Luke Skywalker, drawn by @Bhaal_spawn, 5B pencil, 2018

Luke Skywalker, drawn by @Bhaal_spawn, 5B pencil, 2018

Luke Skywalker, drawn ✏️ by me in 5B pencil only.

Drawn on 8"x12" paper, 2018.

I don't care what anyone says, his character is perfect as a cynical, new, beardy Yoda for the sequels. Fight me.

#TillysArt

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10.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 1
Commodore 64 Ultimate: Die Founders Edition
Commodore 64 Ultimate: Die Founders Edition YouTube video by RETURN-Magazin

Slowly, the founders edition videos are appearing on YouTube. What do you think of this version?
#C64 #Commodore
youtu.be/52wH8E4RoVY?...

10.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the New Kid: the UNO Q by @officialarduino.bsky.social!

We only just met, but I think we're gonna be friends. 😎 Stay tuned to see the chocolate friendly Valentine's Day project I made with it!

Learn more about the Arduino UNO Q here:
arduino.cc/products/uno...

#sponsored_by_arduino

10.02.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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ROGUEish by syntaxerrorsoftware A rogue-like for the c64!

Don't forget, there are still plenty of physical versions (tape/disk) of my C64 rogue-like, ROGUEish left to purchase 😊❀️
syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/rogueish

30.01.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Interrupts: Z80 Assembly Language for the ZX Spectrum, Episode 12
Interrupts: Z80 Assembly Language for the ZX Spectrum, Episode 12 YouTube video by The Retro Desk

Sweet! I managed to get this move a sprite using interrupts example working with my own Z80 assembler (needed some slight code upgrades)...I'm very happy! I'll now try something similar with my Pascal -> Z80 cross-compiler!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2El...

10.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've managed to add spectrum next support (the beginnings of) to my OmniPas Pascal cross-compiler. After I add in some basic support libs, I'll upload the updated project to my website ❀️

04.02.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OmniPas released!! Hi all, I've finally released my new project, OmniPas , a new Windows Pascal cross-compiler for targeting 6502/Z80 machines. This is a major update and replaces my other project, Pas6502 , which only....

OmniPas Pascal Z80/6502 CPU cross-compiler update!
syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/omnipas/devl...

01.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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ROGUEish by syntaxerrorsoftware A rogue-like for the c64!

Don't forget, there are still plenty of physical versions (tape/disk) of my C64 rogue-like, ROGUEish left to purchase 😊❀️
syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/rogueish

30.01.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Matneee just bought me coffee. Thank you so much!

16.11.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#omniasm #z80 #amstrad After lots of debugging (including my own assembler, lol), I've gotten my first Amstrad program working via my assembler and command-line disk creation tools! #8BitCoders

14.11.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Switch Homebrew Games (Strategy) - GameBrew Dune Legacy is an open-source remake of the classic 1992 real-time strategy game Dune II, originally developed by Westwood Studios. The project aims to faithfully reimplement the original gameplay whi...

Dune Legacy homebrew port to #NintendoSwitch

#retrodev #retrogaming #rts

09.11.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ROGUEish crt download added Hey all, for completeness, I've added a .crt cartridge version of ROGUEish to the full game digital download now :)...

#c64 #roguelike
syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/rogueish/dev...

08.11.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enya is the goat 🐐

07.11.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@monteboyd.bsky.social :)

07.11.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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c64 prototyping...some scrolling with split screen HUD at the bottom. It only works in PAL right now, NTSC flickers (not enough raster time??), but is a milestone for me still! :)

07.11.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

05.11.2025 11:57 πŸ‘ 13274 πŸ” 2295 πŸ’¬ 172 πŸ“Œ 98
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ROGUEish Brings Dungeon-Delving Delight to the Commodore 64 ROGUEish, a brand-new roguelike for the Commodore 64 from Syntax Error Software, blends the spirit of Rogue 64 and Roguecraft into one epic dungeon crawl!

ROGUEish (by @syntaxerrorsoft.bsky.social) Brings Dungeon-Delving Delight to the Commodore 64!
-> ausretrogamer.com/rogueish-bri...
#retrogaming #c64

06.11.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, there is a free demo too...

05.11.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! πŸ˜ŠπŸ™

05.11.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool!

05.11.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spectrum Next #Delphian progress: working on the 3D engine. unclipped triangles are now working. It's using DMA to fill lines, and just CPU on short lines. Some more optimisations to be done, but at least it's working. Next comes all the clipped polygons!πŸ™‚ No problemo!πŸ˜‰

04.11.2025 21:04 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Super Sunny World (my upcoming NES platformer) will have a number of hidden items required to reach 100% completion.

To make this more manageable, I've included a stats page with a breakdown per level of what you are missing!

#nesdev

05.11.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assembly - Patching 68K software - SimpleText Someone asked to have SimpleText open a smaller text window at startup. Initially, I assumed this would be a fairly easy fix by just overwriting a few constant values in SimpleText code. It turned out to be a pain -- but I learned a lot along the way. You need to have the code editor (from one...

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText | Discussion

04.11.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ROGUEish by syntaxerrorsoftware A rogue-like for the c64!

@ausretrogamer.bsky.social did you see that I've recently released a rogue-like called ROGUEish on the C64? It's available as a digital and physical (tape, Disk) purchase 😊
syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/rogueish

05.11.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you always thought that the #C128 is just a #C64 with a bunch of useless bits bolted on, maybe it's time to reconsider. I just released a version of Stunt Car Racer adapted to take advantage of these additional features, and the performance boost is quite significant. See for yourself!

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04.11.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Stern's The Walking Dead Remastered: A Horror Classic Reborn Stern Pinball resurrects a modern classic! The Walking Dead Remastered brings back Borg & Sheats’ masterpiece with SPIKE 3 tech, HD display, & fresh horrors.

Stern Pinball Revives the Undead: The Walking Dead Remastered Rises Again! πŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈπŸ§ŸπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈ
ausretrogamer.com/stern-pinbal...

#pinball #sternpinball #TheWalkingDead

05.11.2025 03:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0