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King Henry II 👑
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21st King of England (1154-1189).
Me and my mate Thomas Becket, having a good time putting things right that once went wrong. Until he called me Tetchy. TETCHY? I'LL SHOW HIM TETCHY.
Pinned
The Keys of Marinus
The Mind Robber
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Image of the Fendahl
The Five Doctors
Revelation of the Daleks
Survival
TV movie
Bad Wolf
Utopia
The Day of the Doctor
Oxygen
The Giggle
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It is hard to describe how impressive this game was back in 1986.

Its design embraces the technical limitations of the hardware to create a uniquely tense experience.

The 3D scrolling landscape is an 8-bit wonder.

It is essentially a VR game, before VR even existed… and all this in just 32K.

4/9
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
What do you get if you cross an elephant with a rhino?
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:

Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.

Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.

See thread for details.

1/9

github.com/markmoxon/th...

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
GitHub - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro: Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro
Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
github.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Wait… D’Artagnan was a real man?!
I thought he was fictional!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Now that 2026 is underway, it's a good time to post an updated collage of my DOS games. Since I have nine out now, that fits into a nice neat rectangle. So here are all 9 #msdos games I released from 2020 to 2025. All #cga, all running on an #ibmpc, all available from cyningstan.itch.io
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Louise Jameson, 1971.
December 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
At the karaoke bar...
December 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Finished. 26 books, which averages out at one per fortnight.
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🎶 “On the fourth day of Christmas…” Did you know the original lyric was “four colly birds”? Colly means black as coal—so, blackbirds! Today’s item: a 1962 photo by George Ellis of a blackbird perched on a litter basket in Priory Park, Bodmin. 🐦 #12DaysOfChristmas #Blackbird
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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More on the genius of the Asterix translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

(the “rather, old fruit” exchange is one of my favourite gags)

auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...
Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…
auntymuriel.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Today's demo effect on the BBC Micro... water ripples. This would be much better in higher resolution so I may try a Mode 1 or 5 version. It doesn't quite follow the original algorithm due to the resolution constraints. 🔊

#bbcmicro #demoscene
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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The arrival of 2026 means I finally get to use The Miss Piggy Cover Girl Fantasy Calendar 1981 that I bought in a thrift store in Conrad, Montana a decade ago.
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Channel D will be opening on #TalkingPicturesTV today at 4pm....
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1964) #TPTVsubtitles
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Huge news from Blakeney Point...
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
December 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I've spent the morning so far fooling the children of the revolution.
December 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
December 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Went to the kitchen to do the washing-up and found out that Past-Me had already done it.

I love that guy.
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Having a little play with a brush pen (no under-drawing.) #DoctorWho #SeaDevils
December 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Henry VI is dead and Edward IV, a Plantagenet, has seized the throne.

THE END

Number 25 done.
December 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM