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L Break Into Program

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Blog: http://www.breakintoprogram.co.uk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BreakIntoProgram Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/breakintoprogram Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 2h

Hahaha! Reminds me. I could play Steve Davis Snooker quite well on it too.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3h

It’s funny how that worked. I did most of my home spectrum coding in B&W. Perfect grey scale.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3h

Isn’t it just!

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3h

I used to throw in pop references from the 70s to 90s when running the graduate training scheme at work. I used to hear that a lot. Plus as a bonus, there’s a new generation of programmers who know the opening dialog to the A-Team. My work here is done.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3h

Top of ROM contains 0xFF on the original ROM, sometimes used by 48K games as a lookup table for IM2 interrupts.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3h

Ah, are you still waiting for the manual to be scanned @sharpworks.bsky.social ? I completely forgot.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

It was, your witness is bob on.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

Oh, this is the context for Adrian. I was given this by a friend. I loaned it to Sharpworks earlier in the year at Retrofest to see if he could get it to work on of his Sharps. We had no joy first time round at the show…

The BASICODE 2 manual and tape, published by the BBC Radio 4 programme The Chip Shop.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

Ah yes. I've not tried that tape yet on my ZX81. It's in my pile of things to do later.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

Is that HRH Gronda Gronda to your left? You really do know how to hobnob with the cream of society. Impressed!

His Royal Highness Gronda Gronda from The Adventure Game.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

Wonderful! A goldilocks level of clutter there.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4h

Microsoft be all like:

Monty Python Army Protection Racket sketch.

Dino (Terry Jones) and Luigi Vercotti (Michael Palin) as the mobsters, dressed in blue pinstriped suits and dark glasses.

Graham Chapman as the Colonel, dressed in British army uniform.

It is set in the colonel's office.

Terry Jones: "Nice operating system you've got here... Be a shame is something happened to it".

In the original, the script read "Nice army base...".
And I've labelled the colonel as "user", and the gangsters as "Microsoft".

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

True.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

a man with a beard and long hair is looking at the camera

Alt: a man in the wild with a beard and long hair is looking at the camera and nods approvingly. I don’t know the context to this sorry.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

So yeah, totally agree. I don’t know what they’re doing with all that power these days.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

I’ve got Windows 3.1 running Word and Excel on a 16Mhz 386 PC luggable with 4MB (not GB) of RAM and a 40MB hard drive. It’s perfectly usable.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

The irony is that today is also International E-Waste Day. Wonder how much this will contribute to the pile.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 5h

Hoisted by your own net card.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 6h

I've been known to tinker my roms.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 6h

Hahaha!

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 6h

A bit later than that, yet still late 90s. A colleague at work was experimenting with installing Linux off floppies (Red Hat, if I remember correctly) on an old Compaq PC. It seemed like a royal pain, but he convinced me and got me hooked.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 15h

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art

Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator

Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 7h

Yeah, I was the IT manager for a marketing company that had a load of Macs that were networked like that. One of my first jobs was to upgrade to Ethernet.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 7h

Oh that's pretty cool.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 7h

I'm reminded of Ada every time we do CoderDojo. Our hosts are the Ada College in Manchester. We're lucky to be able to run it there - it's a great venue. And Ada herself is a pioneer who's life and work are worthy of celebration.