Sigh.
#Christmas

#Poker night, last hand: all-in, cards on their backs. Hero has bullets vs spades—feeling good. Ace hits the flop, easy win! Then a spade on the turn—flush for villain? Not today! River drops and the final bullet fired: four of a kind. From despair to triumph in one card. #4ofakind #Aces

Snipping Tool stops working after 6 monitors.
In case you were interested.
@mscommunity.bsky.social
#snippingtool
#Windows

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The #Dragon32. What started as toy co Mettoy became Dragon Data in the early 80s. They produced what is basically a cheap TRS80 using the same Motorola MC6809E processor and MSBasic. Decent kb and good HW support, but crap (mostly green) graphics led to less than stellar adoption.
#RetoComputers

Been a while since a #retro post but I think the 'strad deserves a place. AMS introduced this arguably in the later stages of the 80s boom when sales elsewhere were declining. Sugar seemed to hit a sweet spot, combining all-in function with good graphics and sound. It sold 2m units.
#retrocomputing

Ealing half. Before and after. I don't think the 'after' quite conveys the difficulty this year. I was knackered. Just under 2h but nowhere near what I expected. Next year, more training, less eating b4, and maybe trainers that aren't falling to bits.
#EalingFeeling
#EalingHalf

So one bucket list item for 2025 complete...writing a #SpaceInvaders game, lol. OK maybe not challenging to many but I've not really written any games before and figured I need to start somewhere simple(ish). Maybe try a version in Python next.
bondytech.uk/space-invade...
#GameDev
#RetroComputing

#Poker night. Final hand and wasn't looking good for the win when villain made a set of cowboys on the turn. Then the ten came making the nut straight. Game over, trophy retained for another month. A good night's work.

Great day out @heritagelive.bsky.social watching the PSBs and Scissor Sisters. Can never quite figure out why the journey takes so long from London given is only around 105m though? Roads the and back are fast enough but time slows down a soon as you hit Norfolk!

Kula Shaker's new single is quite good, but the organ bit in the middle is lifted straight from The Door's 'Riders on a Storm'. Practically note for note. Is this even legal? :-)
@kulashaker.bsky.social
#TheDoors
#RidersOnTheStorm

Really rocking the Red Indian/ Roman Centurion from the future look.
#J2
#Ealing
#Techno

Looks #mbeumo is enjoying one last hurrah before his move to Man U
#J2

What's not to like about a techno festival at the end of your road? We'll onv as long as you like techno :-)
Early doors.
#J2
#Ealing
#Techno

#ScottishWhiskyTour day 3. Glenfiddich.

In Speyside, even the pub toilets are fully stocked.
#HighlanderInn
#Speyside
#ScottishWhiskyTour

Ridiculous.
www.youtube.com/shorts/suuO5...
#BMX
#BestTrick

Can Elon's 'musk' overpower Donald's 'trump'? Not sure I'd want to be stuck in a lift with either.
For my 200th post it seems fitting to comment on their fallout. I think most predicted this would happen sooner rather than later.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
#badsmells

What do you call a guy w. a rubber toe?
Roberto.
What do call a guy with a rubber toe whose car got stolen?
Roberto Carlos. 😁

Thanks @lepouns.com !
Just received this fantastic album in the post today. Loving it.
#Lepouns
#BelgianPot

This really was the machine that started the computer revolution of today and shares many compatible elements with todays PCs. Difficult to believe these were 8bit although it had 20bits of add space allowing up to 1MB of memory. Running MSBASIC it was an instant success.
#TopTrumps
#RetroComputing

Ealing UK.