Happy Friday everyone! Fancy a brand new #ZXSpectrum game to get your teeth into this weekend? Well let me help you out: welcome to Castle Rooj! Roojliek is a classic ASCII rogue-like for the 48K ZX Spectrum, can you survive long enough to escape? https://t.co/jjMHBsWPW3

2lb down on the scales this week, just have to keep avoiding the big bags of Minstrels and all should be fine.

Last week I gave myself the challenge of creating a game in 5 days. The idea was to create a block breaker game based on Arkanoid/Krakout on the ZX Spectrum, which I will also be creating for the ZX Spectrum Next 3. Blocky is the result. Enjoy! 🦊 https://t.co/Pas46AFaN1

Giving my gopher site (gopher://zx.jimblimey.com) a bit of attention, have now added a ZXDB search function to it.. Its amazing what you find when you type silly words into a search!

Still amuses me seeing modern errors on a Spectrum screen

Might as well crack this open

Lovely little old school retro game here. Give it a try as it is hugely enjoyable.

Let it be known on this day the central heating was put on for a 10 minute blast - I do love that hot dust smell you get when its put on the first time in a while.

Uploaded a little playthrough of my new #ZXSpectrum game to YouTube, would have got further if I didn't get cocky 😆 https://t.co/W3mY7Hhhb8

Started a new iteration of the Spectranet's random pickler, no database, no filtering, just a directory listing of the entire TOSEC games archive to pick from. Non tap files ditched server side, with some autoconversion of z80 to sna. This'll certainly make them more interesting

Seeing off the weekend properly

With the ASCII crawler done and out its time to start looking at the next step, am thinking the SP1 sprite library might be a good thing to look at. Perhaps porting Black Hole RX back over to the Spectrum would be a good learning exercise.

Last night's #ZXSpectrum lucky dip is up on the Tubes. Gary The Vimto Dragon definitely the standout of the night, I shall be playing that again. https://t.co/Mb6uc8lma7

Saturday night, lets jump into a #ZXSpectrum lucky dip! Live in 5 https://t.co/ay8YKqMf3u

A little Saturday morning boost for this, if you havent already done so please do give it a go. As for tonight's stream, I'm thinking a nice #ZXSpectrum lucky dip!

Jim's made an amazing dungeon crawler. I'm going back in - properly armed! https://t.co/ZIBi8iCSH8

You can play straight from your web browser if you so desire (touch devices not supported I'm afraid) https://t.co/Ov5aDMnPMs

I've had seeds that got me killed by a rat on the first level, I've had seeds that have given me a gauntlet of pain on the last, I've had seeds that throw healing potions at me like confetti but we wont mention those 😆 Either way, the roguelike is finally coming this weekend!

That's a big oops! 😆

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