David Worrall
@davidworrall.bsky.social
Computer programmer. Over 36 years in computer games. Also film vfx and electronics. Built companies. Worked at Sony, Psygnosis, Rockstar, EA, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic. Worked on Horizon Zero Dawn, Red Dead Redemption 2, Harry Potter & Star Wars
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Interstellar object candidate #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey, Chile (obs code X09). No obvious tail, will have to do a stack to see if there's anything...
Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.
Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.
July 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Interstellar object candidate #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey, Chile (obs code X09). No obvious tail, will have to do a stack to see if there's anything...
Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.
Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.
Walked up to the top of Stanage Edge in the Peak District. It’s always been a great place for rock climbing and it was full of climbers as usual. Great views from the top.
April 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Walked up to the top of Stanage Edge in the Peak District. It’s always been a great place for rock climbing and it was full of climbers as usual. Great views from the top.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A key piece of the Internet many years ago. I can’t remember the last time I used it.
Skype announces it will close in May
The internet chat and phone service, which is owned by Microsoft, made the announcement on X.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A key piece of the Internet many years ago. I can’t remember the last time I used it.
The new M4 Macbook Air is interesting. I have an old Intel Macbook Pro that is due to be let out to pasture. 🤔
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The new M4 Macbook Air is interesting. I have an old Intel Macbook Pro that is due to be let out to pasture. 🤔
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Unsurprisingly, the performance of the new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra appears to be markedly faster than its predecessor, at least according to initial benchmarks.
First Mac Studio M3 Ultra benchmarks significantly outpace the M2 Ultra
Unsurprisingly, the performance of the new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra appears to be markedly faster than its predecessor, at least according to initial benchmarks.
appleinsider.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Unsurprisingly, the performance of the new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra appears to be markedly faster than its predecessor, at least according to initial benchmarks.
Reposted by David Worrall
Fans of Tweetbot for Twitter and Ivory for Mastodon have reason to get excited all over again as the developers at Tapbots tease a Bluesky client called Phoenix.
Tweetbot creators tease Phoenix, a new Bluesky client
Fans of Tweetbot for Twitter and Ivory for Mastodon have reason to get excited all over again as the developers at Tapbots tease a Bluesky client called Phoenix.
appleinsider.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Fans of Tweetbot for Twitter and Ivory for Mastodon have reason to get excited all over again as the developers at Tapbots tease a Bluesky client called Phoenix.
Always fascinated by Doom. A great game in its time. This article brings back fond memories of coding games on PC. The days of hard core game programming :)
fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/ind...
fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/ind...
Why fastDOOM is fast
fabiensanglard.net
March 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Always fascinated by Doom. A great game in its time. This article brings back fond memories of coding games on PC. The days of hard core game programming :)
fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/ind...
fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/ind...
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Please share if you see this post. Let's see how powerful bluesky is for promoting events in The North. You are invited to a FREE games weekend, full of games from retro, old school to new releases, workshops, talks, careers advice, esports, merch and more at WX in Wakefield 8/9 March. #gamedev
March 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Please share if you see this post. Let's see how powerful bluesky is for promoting events in The North. You are invited to a FREE games weekend, full of games from retro, old school to new releases, workshops, talks, careers advice, esports, merch and more at WX in Wakefield 8/9 March. #gamedev
Went for a walk to recharge. Hiked up to Bamford Edge in the Derbyshire Peak Distract. It’s a beautiful view at the top.
February 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Went for a walk to recharge. Hiked up to Bamford Edge in the Derbyshire Peak Distract. It’s a beautiful view at the top.
This brings back memories. In 1983 I built this digital audio interface for a ZX Spectrum to make a digital delay. Can’t believe I’ve found the article from the old Electronics & Music Maker magazine! Fun times.
www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dig...
www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dig...
Digital Signal Processing (Electronics & Music Maker, Jul 1983)
The first of an innovative new series on musical applications of your home micro
www.muzines.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This brings back memories. In 1983 I built this digital audio interface for a ZX Spectrum to make a digital delay. Can’t believe I’ve found the article from the old Electronics & Music Maker magazine! Fun times.
www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dig...
www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dig...
My very first home computer, an Acorn Atom, which one of my Dad’s friends lent me as I was so interested. I wrote my first game on it in 1980, a Space Invaders like game on a 1MHz 6502 in less than 2K bytes of memory.
January 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My very first home computer, an Acorn Atom, which one of my Dad’s friends lent me as I was so interested. I wrote my first game on it in 1980, a Space Invaders like game on a 1MHz 6502 in less than 2K bytes of memory.
Review of the latest released game I worked on (mainly on the graphics systems for Playstation 5 and PC)
arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...
Horizon: Zero Dawn gets the graphical remaster a modern classic deserves
This is how to do a remaster.
arstechnica.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Review of the latest released game I worked on (mainly on the graphics systems for Playstation 5 and PC)
arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...
View from the top of Win Hill in the Derbyshire Peak District a few months ago.
January 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
View from the top of Win Hill in the Derbyshire Peak District a few months ago.
View of one of my favourite places; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Taken while hiking in the Swiss Alps.
January 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
View of one of my favourite places; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Taken while hiking in the Swiss Alps.