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Web dev for 20+ years, lecturer, dad, husband, human, etc. Owns way too many Spectrums. Z80 forever.
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control panel of the day #HCI #vic20
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
VicVGA cat is out of the bag. Let me know if anyone might be interested in buying one!

sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bull...

#vic20
VicVGA graphics card - any interest? - Denial
sleepingelephant.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy

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David Clayton is running for congress in NC's District 5 against #FuckMAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself.👇
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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New blog post - Converting a ZX81 BASIC game to run in Commodore BASIC on the VIC 20 (and the PET, C64 and TED)

blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2025/11/peri...

BASIC is quite a portable language, so let's see how easily it ports.
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm not even going to read this as I know it's going to be horrifying, but FFS. What is wrong with people? I don't want to live on this planet any more - it's full of fucking idiots.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Terrific
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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what if sinclair research branded valve steam machine
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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On the bench rn
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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First-person exploration and survival on the lush planet of Emerald, where chilling by a flowong river brings a little zen to the experience.

📺: Explorer, Electric Dreams, 1986 (ZX Spectrum)
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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An event to unveil Russia's first "anthropomorphic robot with artificial intelligence" had to be cancelled after the robot fell and crashed on stage.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.

100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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A lot of folks missed the live stream and asked to see my opening speech at Amiga 40 Germany, so here it is. Huge thanks to Vitus and Alicia from BBSIndex on YouTube for the recording 🙏 #commodore #commodoreamiga #amiga #Amiga40 #AmigaBill LINK: youtu.be/gNA9SpJADyA
Celebrating the Amiga Community | Amiga Bill’s Opening Speech at Amiga 40 Germany
YouTube video by Amiga Bill
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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What is this? The News Agents - After Dark? This is how I want my political journalists to talk now, things have gone too far to the right to stay polite! 🫡
"You spout shite on a podcast to reinforce your 𝘰𝘸𝘯 position that "civil war is coming"... it's a self-fulfilling prophecy."

Elon Musk has now claimed England’s ‘hobbit-like’ towns are rife with rape while on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We have a cursor! One more (known) firmware bug to fix. VicVGA lives 😂 #vic20
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Italian Senator speaks the truth about European appeasement towards Putin after the annexation of Crimea.

Not so common in the Italian TV. I hope more politician will follow.
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It works :) Just need to sort out the cursor now. #vic20
October 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Dual-screen Vic-20 anyone? Still have a bug to shake out in the CPLD, then can start on the firmware. #vic20
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It's highly unstable, very noisy and doesn't do anything. But I've built a computer from scratch 😍
Clock, reset, CPU, ROM ,bios. No ram just yet - unbelievablly i got got bored of soldering.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@tynemouthsoftware.co.uk

I've tried OE + CS together, and OE to ground, but the machine is still unstable and crashes after a few minutes. I'm using VRW on the expansion port for RW on the left port.

If I remove the DP RAM chip, the whole thing is fine, so I'm doing something silly somewhere...
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM