Magnus Anderson
@magnusanderson.bsky.social
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Build a 3D flight combat game.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
OK so YouTube has done my end of year wrap and told me that my most listened to track is the Audio Video Sync Test, how do I submit this to the Bluesky 2025 pop polling infrastructure?
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
OK so YouTube has done my end of year wrap and told me that my most listened to track is the Audio Video Sync Test, how do I submit this to the Bluesky 2025 pop polling infrastructure?
At long last, the PS5 is £300. This is The Correct Price For PlayStations To Be, and has been ever since Steve Race said so in 1995
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
At long last, the PS5 is £300. This is The Correct Price For PlayStations To Be, and has been ever since Steve Race said so in 1995
The micro-publisher of this game mostly did education software
abuse, print ad, atari 8-bit (1983) archive.org/details/anal...
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The micro-publisher of this game mostly did education software
This is where the original 'save' symbol came from - it is an old-fashioned cork-board for your notes, but its now archaic so young people have no idea
illustration, pc master, magazine (1989) archive.org/details/pcma...
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is where the original 'save' symbol came from - it is an old-fashioned cork-board for your notes, but its now archaic so young people have no idea
HOW did I not clock the vital detail of this 2000AD prog* cover for so long?
*which I own
*which I own
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
HOW did I not clock the vital detail of this 2000AD prog* cover for so long?
*which I own
*which I own
Oddly forced opening statement here - the intervals between PlayStations has been 5 years only once. Since then: 6.5 years twice, and most recently 7 years. 2027 is quite reasonable for PS6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7e352emrro
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7e352emrro
Happy birthday to the PlayStation 5 - but why no plans for a PS6?
On the fifth anniversary of the PlayStation 5, the firm says its focus remains on its current console.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Oddly forced opening statement here - the intervals between PlayStations has been 5 years only once. Since then: 6.5 years twice, and most recently 7 years. 2027 is quite reasonable for PS6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7e352emrro
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7e352emrro
A cavernous room with shelves and shelves of games, it never occurred to me that these places wouldn't last for ever
hmv games level one, store, oxford street, london (1993) archive.org/details/Amig...
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A cavernous room with shelves and shelves of games, it never occurred to me that these places wouldn't last for ever
Build a 3D flight combat game.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Build a 3D flight combat game.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.
Clout reacquisition time!
Clout casting time!
Gorgeous weather, can't believe it's still a month to go before we're allowed to cast a clout, ridiculous
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Clout reacquisition time!
Skin successfully jumped out of
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Skin successfully jumped out of
No one should be playing any ps2 games unless they've finished all 4000 ps1 games
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
No one should be playing any ps2 games unless they've finished all 4000 ps1 games
The world's largest retailer wants to know if I want any more of those toilet seat hinges I enjoyed so much this time last year
August 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The world's largest retailer wants to know if I want any more of those toilet seat hinges I enjoyed so much this time last year
Anthropologists examining my household would conclude that one of my main fears is running out of tote bags
August 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Anthropologists examining my household would conclude that one of my main fears is running out of tote bags
That's twelve THOUSAND
12,000 clip art images, compact disc, pc (1996) archive.org/details/1200...
August 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
That's twelve THOUSAND
Is there a category name for a picturesque area that becomes a crime hotspot around the time a telegenic detective is posted there?
August 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Is there a category name for a picturesque area that becomes a crime hotspot around the time a telegenic detective is posted there?
Hard to dispute that Action Comics #1 is the iconoc image for introducing a character on a comic cover. I know that the UK equivalent is probably Eagle #1 - and I can certainly visualise every one of Frank Hampson's perfect panels. But I have a real, real soft spot for 2000AD Prog 228
July 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hard to dispute that Action Comics #1 is the iconoc image for introducing a character on a comic cover. I know that the UK equivalent is probably Eagle #1 - and I can certainly visualise every one of Frank Hampson's perfect panels. But I have a real, real soft spot for 2000AD Prog 228
Clout casting time!
Gorgeous weather, can't believe it's still a month to go before we're allowed to cast a clout, ridiculous
June 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Clout casting time!
There's an excitement and pleasure surrounding walking away from a shop with a boxed computer game that I can't imagine ever having from clicking on a download button
May 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
There's an excitement and pleasure surrounding walking away from a shop with a boxed computer game that I can't imagine ever having from clicking on a download button
Everyone, please admire this
I am working on speeding up #Elite on the #Acorn #Electron.
It's going well. On the left is the original; on the right is my enhanced version. It's all down to sideways RAM and backporting faster code from the #BBCMicro and #C64 versions.
More details in thread. (1/4)
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
It's going well. On the left is the original; on the right is my enhanced version. It's all down to sideways RAM and backporting faster code from the #BBCMicro and #C64 versions.
More details in thread. (1/4)
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
May 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Everyone, please admire this
Gorgeous weather, can't believe it's still a month to go before we're allowed to cast a clout, ridiculous
April 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Gorgeous weather, can't believe it's still a month to go before we're allowed to cast a clout, ridiculous
Reposted by Magnus Anderson
No, I’m this old.
March 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
No, I’m this old.
Groundhog Day would hit differently if it happened in an Internet-connected 2025. Work through every book, movie, TV show, academic discipline, and then generate new AI slop. You'd still lose it, but it would take waaaaay longer
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Groundhog Day would hit differently if it happened in an Internet-connected 2025. Work through every book, movie, TV show, academic discipline, and then generate new AI slop. You'd still lose it, but it would take waaaaay longer
THREE singers unmasked? Our cup runneth over!
February 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
THREE singers unmasked? Our cup runneth over!