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Glen McNamee
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IT Service Delivery - Made on Teesside - Dad, Husband & Lung Cancer Survivor - Commodore 64, Chipmusic, Boro, Pico-8 - He/Him
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 1d
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 2d
After a three-week break, I'm back working on Football Manager 80s #pico8
Screenshot of Visual Studio Code with a Pico-8 window in the middle, running Football Manager 80s.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d
If you're a cancer patient, you are given a helpline number and are told to call it if you have any symptoms. It is emphasised at every stage of the process. Doctors, nurses, posters, all telling you to call it.

Of course, if you do ring it, no one answers.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 3d
I mean, um, it's still, you know, um, you know, I think that. Let me just get my numbers there. Um, but um, it did, I do not have the stuff with me, but it did, it did about um five stars.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 4d
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 5d
This has broken my brain. My mind refuses to comprehend a 48K Spectrum with a mechanical keyboard.
leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Lee Smiths Workshop @leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social · 5d
I present the Mechtrum +D and Mechtrum DLX +D #zxspectrum #retro #3dprinting
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 5d
This is bananas.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 5d
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.
Compo Simmonite from the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 7d
It's moments like this when I realise how much of my life depends on apps that depend on AWS.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 8d
I put my money on Liverpool 3-0. 🤷
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 9d
Reposting for no reason.
borobrickroad.bsky.social Boro_Brick_Road @borobrickroad.bsky.social · 9d
Playing with Whittaker and Burgzorg is like playing with 9 men at the moment, we have no outlet
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 10d
Started watching Columbo. This may be the greatest show ever made. My prior Columbo experience outside of pop culture osmosis is Peter Falk in Wings Of Desire. Wenders told us the truth: he was an angel.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 15d
Thanks, you've reminded me to remove these posts.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 15d
Hi. I've removed the C64Universe posts from @c64news.bsky.social due to the low-quality AI-generated content. If you have any suggestions for good C64-related blogs to replace it, drop me a note.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 16d
The Tron Ares soundtrack isn't good.
Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting, "Freedom of Speech," depicts a man in a plaid shirt speaking passionately at a town meeting while others listen respectfully, symbolising the right to express oneself freely.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 17d
It's a bit Premier league vs National league. #engwal
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 18d
Are you going through dethroned withdrawal?
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 18d
Stolen Cold / Young Sheldon crossover special.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 19d
It turns out it was COVID not the flu.
glenmcnamee.com Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 25d
It would be a shame if I went on holiday to visit family, one of whom is undergoing chemotherapy, and I got the flu. FFS
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 19d
If we are doing mother's favourite plus/4 games, mine liked Icicle Works.
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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 20d
On the Commodore 64's less well-known cousin, the Plus/4:

notebook.zoeblade.com/Plus_4.html
The Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore in 1984. Inevitably, it has to be compared to the earlier and far more popular Commodore 64. Hardware wise, it has more colours than the C64, but lacks sprites. Most disappointingly, it has no glorious SID chip. Firmware wise, it has an office suite built into the ROM (just turn it on and press F1 then return), which was a great idea, badly executed. It also has an improved version of BASIC compared to the C64, and even a machine code monitor. The Plus/4 flooded the Eastern European market, especially Hungary. Outside of Eastern Europe, it wasn't especially noteworthy. On a personal note, it was my first computer. As a budding programmer, it was an ideal first machine. When it broke, I was given a Commodore 64C, in most respects a far better machine, and certainly a more popular one. Plus Pack The £100 Plus Pack bundle included the Plus/4 itself, the obligatory tape drive, a joystick, and eleven games: Crazy Golf, Exorcist, Fire Ant, Harbour Attack, Icicle Works, Invaders, Mayhem, Number Builder, Number Chaser, Space Sweep, and Treasure Island. For the time and the price, some of these were pretty decent. Icicle Works was a Boulderdash clone with a few improvements; Treasure Island was a maze style game similar to Sabre Wulf; and Fire Ant was a matching-lock-and-key style adventure game. (I later made a short clone of Fire Ant for the PICO-8.)
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 20d
Easy solution. Stop using it. Well maybe not easy, but you know...
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 20d
I barely use Gmail anymore, but I'm having the opposite experience; it'll fail to flag the odd spam message.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 20d
I think the Turrican 2 music is the highest standard, but yeah, it's probably too harsh to say the music is a big step down.
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Glen McNamee @glenmcnamee.com · 20d
Worktunes are unfinished tracks.
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