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Rod Hull
@futurewas8bit.bsky.social
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The Future was 8bit, and still is in my house.. C64p, SD2IEC, Penultimate+ Cart, divMMC Future, all sorts. VIC20's rulez. Commodore, Sinclair, BBC, Oric, Dragon
www.tfw8b.com www.thefuturewas8bit.com
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futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Rod Hull Replays: Ms PacMan - Atari 7800
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#RetroGaming #Atari2600 #Atari7800 #Atari
Rod Hull Replays: Ms PacMan - Atari 7800
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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retrogamermisfit.bsky.social
What a nice video about Finnish Game Museum @futurewas8bit.bsky.social
VIC-20 stuff from TFW8B

youtu.be/z70_C_GYbV8
Suomen pelimuseon vanhat koneet pääsivät tuulettumaan retrokonepeluutuksessa
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November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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vadergb.bsky.social
@futurewas8bit.bsky.social has done a video with some Atari games. A decent selection of titles too. I went and snagged a copy of Fishing Derby as that looks proper fun too. Food Fight and Joust next?

youtu.be/0QyKXK5BfVw?...
Atari 2600/7800: Asteroids 2, Ms PacMan, Missile Command, Pole Position 2, Fishing Derby & Asteroids
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November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Atari 2600/7800: Asteroids 2, Ms PacMan, Missile Command, Pole Position 2, Fishing Derby & Asteroids
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#RetroGaming #Atari2600 #Atari7800 #Atari
Atari 2600/7800: Asteroids 2, Ms PacMan, Missile Command, Pole Position 2, Fishing Derby & Asteroids
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November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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coffeecuparcade.bsky.social
This is an excellent cartridge and a great price folks! Heads up!

#Commodore64
futurewas8bit.bsky.social Rod Hull @futurewas8bit.bsky.social · 10d
Oh I forgot to mention I've got a #MegaSale on Kung-Fu-Flash (for the #Commodore64). Prices now start from £24.99
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit #Easyflash #Commodore #C64
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October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Oh I forgot to mention I've got a #MegaSale on Kung-Fu-Flash (for the #Commodore64). Prices now start from £24.99
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit #Easyflash #Commodore #C64
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October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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samcoupe.com
More creepy #Halloween shenanigans on the #SAMCoupe! But what makes it more spooky is that it's a #VIC20 cartridge plugged in the back to play 'The Count' adventure! "35 Years of SAM" Limited Edition VIC-20 Cart Interface: www.samcoupe.com

#Retrogaming #Retrocomputing #InteractiveFiction #8bit
VIC-20 Cartridge Interface plugged into a SAM Coupe. 'The Count' text adventure for the VIC-20, running on the SAM Coupe.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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jamienemeth.bsky.social
Made huge strides with my anachronistic analogue TV simulator last night!

RPi 3 TVHeadend uses two Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T tuners to get BBC1/2, ITV1, S4C, Channel 4/5 SD feeds and stream to six RPi 1s running OMXPlayer and VBIT2 for teletext.

Bonus: DVB HAT lets me watch TV anywhere on my LAN, too!
Raspberry Pi 3 with a DVB-T HAT and two DVB-T USB tuners, with an ethernet cable connected. One of the DVB-T USB tuners is missing the black plastic casing. Screenshot of TVHeadend interface on the Status > Stream tab, showing statistics for three tuners (two Realtek RTL2832, and one Sony CXD2280). Tuner 1: 2 subscriptions, bandwidth 7345, SNR 22.8 dB Tuner 2: 4 subscriptions, bandwidth 8680, SNR 26.5 dB Tuner 3: 2 subscriptions, bandwidth 3084, SNR 21.7 dB GridPlayer (VLC-based multi-video player) showing a two-row by three-column grid with live SD output from BBC1 Wales, BBC2 Wales, ITV1 Wales, S4C, Channel 5, and Channel 4 (left-to-right, top-to-bottom). Screenshot of VLC player with live output from ITV1 Wales HD.
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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gwynnemp.bsky.social
🎃 As it’s almost Hallowe’en what better than switching on the #Commodore #VIC20 and loading up a great little game “Pumpkid” by @hewco.uk and sold by @futurewas8bit.bsky.social

🕹️ 🍬 Collect the sweets, avoiding the ghosts and the witch; what more do you want in a game? 👻 🧙🏻‍♀️

Great fun!
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Looking into getting #FidoNet running again. #JustBecause
But it looks like a bit of a hellscape to get up and running.

My question is, what do you get via FidoNet in 2025? Anything even remotely interesting?
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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chinnyvision.bsky.social
Over on Kofi, here's an idea I did not steal from @gigerpunk.bsky.social ko-fi.com/post/A-Games...
A Games Tour
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October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - Commodore VIC20 +16k - Wow, I think I did good! - 🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit #HiScore #VIC20
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - Commodore VIC20 +16k - Wow, I think I did good! - 🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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loudscotsbloke.bsky.social
The what!!? Key???!!???
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Did a new Atari 2600 CX40 Joystick Help?🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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#RetoGaming #RetoComputing #8bit #VIC20 #Commodore
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Did a new Atari 2600 CX40 Joystick Help?🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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janbeta.net
New video! Replacing the rechargeable lithium cell on my Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga 1200 accelerator card.

YouTube: youtu.be/-sdXLAXbpfQ
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/qLLGtqax62...

#Amiga #A1200 #Amiga1200 #Commodore #Blizzard1230 #Phase5 #Battery #Accelerator #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga Accelerator Battery Replacement
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October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Have I improved since the last time? No! 🙃 - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqg...
#RetoGaming #RetoComputing #8bit #VIC20 #Commodore
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Have I improved since the last time? No! 🙃 - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Have I improved since the last time? No! 🙃 - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqg...
#RetoGaming #RetoComputing #8bit #VIC20 #Commodore
Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - VIC20 +16k - Have I improved since the last time? No! 🙃 - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Better get off here and do some actual work..

Wait a minute,
Where's me laptop, Where's me laptop, No the other laptop.
Oh no.
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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indieretronews.bsky.social
Indie Retro News: Escape from PETSCII Castle - A WIP Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/esca... #retrogaming #gaming #c64 #games
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
Do you believe in computers?
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
futurewas8bit.bsky.social
FFS even the Emu is an Microsoft AI shill!
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Start the week with a unicorn! No, not the Torch Unicorn though I'd quite like one of those too.

No, there'll be two camps for this one. You'll either instantly know what it is or, more likely, you'll never have heard of it because it never sold.

This is the HH Tiger, aka the Tangerine Microtan 2.
Overhead pic of the Tiger showing the nice coloured function keys that could be used as colour selectors in Teletext mode. The machine is bigger than it looks, not far short of the Tatung Einstein. Keyboard is VERY reminiscent of the Acorn Electron despite neither Tangerine or HH having any Acorn connections. Back of the Tiger showing all the IO ports - centronics printer, cassette (rare for a disk-based machine), light pen (because every 80s machine had to have one), TTL RGB video, network in/out and GPIB. Serial number is seen as 20502, aka 'machine number 2.' Number 1 is in the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge. Lid off! Now we can see the tray which holds the PSU with its lovely toroidal transformer (HH made audio products you say?). Space to the left of the tray is where the modem lived. In the centre of the PSU board is a large red coil which was later moved offboard to live on the side of the case because it was affecting the monitor picture. Complete motherboard pic. In it you can see the 3x 32K RAM boards at the top which were discrete memory for the D7220 graphics processor. Along the bottom is the Z80 and GPIB components, the Z80 has its own ROMs and 64K of RAM. Down the right hand side is the 6809 IO part of the machine, again the 6809 has its own ROMs and RAM. Top right is the IO with a pair of 6522s for the comms.
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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chinnyvision.bsky.social
Bored? I take a look at two utter throbbers infesting the old computer scene. No adverts (as usual) and you can basically leave this running in the background and get on with something else. Or watch it on the loo. Up to you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDf...
Violence? Deception? Lies? - Is That What It Takes On Youtube In 2025?
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October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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chinnyvision.bsky.social
And another video. Free for everyone to view on Kofi. I play Wing Commander on my A1200 for the first time in years. ko-fi.com/post/Wing-Co...
Wing Commander On My A1200
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October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM