Retro Derezzed
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ZX81, Spectrum. Atari VCS, 130XE, ST. Sega MD, 32X, DC, Sa†urn. Raspberry Pi. English Language and Literature BA(Hons, First) (1997). MCPD (2011) C# .Net. Linux
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Joined February 2018
Valve appears set to deliver the coup de grâce to the Xbox³ with the Steam Machine's revival Another cuboid Valve product was the magnificent The Orange Box, for which I have the equally superb Prima Official Game Guide ³ which, of course, is my only current generation system
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FoxPro was already considered a dead language at the time I first encountered it in 2000 In 2003 I took a job 200 miles from home, coding a niche application, in a niche language, for a niche market This, along with Visual FoxPro, remains the most enjoyable language I ever used
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Ironically this is the first of my Posts to garner more than ten Likes in the past month...
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Ridge Racer Namco, 1995 Beating all four courses, unlocking the mirror tracks, was somewhat less intense when I first played the game in late 1995 than it was this evening... Playstation, Ridge Racer, and Tekken, all hired over a glorious weekend from Blockbuster Video
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Predator (Activision, Amiga, 1987) Badlands (Atari, Arcade, 1989) Movie (Imagine, Spectrum, 1986) Trashman (New Generation, Spectrum, 1984)
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𝕏 engagement: "You have sustained a lethal injury. Sorry, but you are finished here."
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Switching to Mint Linux in 2018 was a wise investment in the future A USB drive with a stripped-back Windows 11 installation, which runs on my ancient 2011 PC, is used to run one tool: chkdsk ...as this is the only way to repair a corrupted NTFS drive, due to patent nonsense
Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the platform is evolving into an agentic OS, sparking major push back from users online.
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Alien vs. Predator In 1994, the title of Capcom's uncommonly superb side-scrolling fighter, delivering an experience unrivalled by the later lacklustre films In 2025, an all-too-common news headline
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The issue with assuring somebody that you’ll keep their secret is the unknowable future: You're failing to account for drunkeness; anaesthesia; anger towards the person you agreed with, or the secret's subject; the passage of time, as you forget what you agreed to not reveal
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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." — Laurence Binyon
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My Pi 5 runs Recalbox for emulation The aluminium heatsink prevents cpu throttling, but acts as a Farady cage, erratically disrupting Bluetooth controllers I've managed to setup a TP-Link UB5A Bluetooth 5.3 USB adaptor both on Raspberry Pi OS, and Recalbox (utilising BuildRoot)
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Last millennium, life was but a Dream(cast) Last millennium, we experienced a literal Utopia (boot disc) If only we could jailbreak this nightmare reality
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"Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions" Absolutely, as affirmed through decades of personal experience 𝕏 is an ex-platform - not due to algorithmic interference, rather due to my inability to create interesting content
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'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone.
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On this day, I recall the haunting "Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, a poem I first read in 1990
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This account is Following 386 others. For over a fortnight the "Following" timeline has been a wasteland despite many of those accounts Posting - they appear amongst the deluge of irrelevance that is the "For You" feed Many of the other accounts appear to have abandoned Twitter
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I'm being kept around a while longer, it transpires. If only I could fathom the purpose, life might make a little more sense. https://t.co/uWB7ItyUSC
Oncology results received... Once again my body defies the odds (11% 5-year survival rate for metastatic liver cancer, atop the equally low primary colon cancer odds) It's impossible to convey the stress of awaiting these literal life-or-death results, multiple times each year
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Given the turmoil of recent weeks, and today's (relatively) positive news (combined with morphine), I've decided to splash out... ...on a £5.99 Bluetooth usb adapter Maybe the Aluminium Armor heatsink case is disrupting the signal, and maybe the Pi 5 will have suitable drivers
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Oncology results received... Once again my body defies the odds (11% 5-year survival rate for metastatic liver cancer, atop the equally low primary colon cancer odds) It's impossible to convey the stress of awaiting these literal life-or-death results, multiple times each year
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