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As posted on Retro Remakes recently I have been robbed from my bank account. Thankfully it seems that my bank is on the case and they locked everything down so no more money can be taken, although that’s a joke because I don’t actually have any.

Please please if you have played any of my games and enjoyed them in the past. Consider donating by clicking on the Buy Me A Coffee in the sidebar. It is a paypal link - If you need a Nochex link please get in touch or let me know here and I will be able to set that up too. Continue Reading »

Tags: argh!, Begging, Donations, robbed

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I’ve been playing around with the idea of doing something in a very retro style - ZX Spectrum palette and UDG type graphics, so I wrote a little function to recreate the BEEP command so that you can play sounds just like on a Speccy.

The example tune from the ZX Spectrum 48K manual works without any alteration, apart from the removal of line numbers of course.

Here is the code and example for anyone who is interested… Continue Reading »

Tags: BEEP, code, Programming, ZX Spectrum

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I went out for the day to help a friend collect some furniture yesterday and got lots of fresh air and exercise as well as a lovely 15″ TFT monitor which had been rescued from being buried in a landfill. What a nice surprise that was, I can tell you.

I’ve had a play with it now and didn’t notice straight away that it was rotatable. I was well chuffed I can tell you when it suddenly twisted in my hand when I was adjusting the viewing angle on my desk and I realised that it could be put into portrait mode as well as landscape. Continue Reading »

Tags: hardware, mame, tft

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Someone offered and iMac G4 (the one with the dome base and TFT on an arm) on Freecycle but I wasn’t lucky enough to get picked out of the hat. Am gutted. That would have been ace to do a bit of programming on.

I hope it went to a good home. They said the super drive (dvd/cd drive?) was knackered but that wouldn’t have mattered a jot to me, and who needs em with networking and pen drives anyway these days? Continue Reading »

Tags: Apple, coding, Freecycle, iMac

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Well the site has a spanking new coat of paint and feels a lot nicer to me.

Yummy. It is very caffeinated too with lots of coffee beans and cups of coffee all around the site. I feel very much at home here now, even more so than before.

I hope you like the new look - Hopefully this Wordpress install will be a lot easier to maintain and keep track of. Can you believe that e107 wasn’t even telling me if I had any comments, I had to plough through the posts looking for them and it ended up with some spam messages knocking around.

Hopefully too this new fresh start here will motivate me a little into maybe making some new content. 2008 is a month in already and I’ve not done a single line of coding.

I partially blame my shiny new PSP that I got from my wife for Christmas - I’ve finally been playing Cave Story (years after everyone else) and enjoying it very much.

Buy me a coffee from the sidebar and let’s hope the coding juices kick in again.

Tags: coding, Site, Update, wordpress

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I hope everyone visiting this site has a fantastic 2008.

Does anyone still care about TCKSOFT or shouldn’t I bother? LOL

Don’t know why but I’m in a very sombre mood this evening, and for a little while.

Anyway, I will bugger off again before I depress you - enjoy the rest of the holidays!

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I only just had it brought to my attention that PayPal donations was broken - probably been broken forever.

I wondered why I had never got a single donation for all my games.

I just figured that everyone hates me. LOL. Please show me I’m wrong.

The button is working now thanks to a different plugin to replace the knackered one.

EDIT (Feb 2008): As I’ve moved onto Wordpress, the donate button has changed again and I hope you will all decide to buy me a cup of coffee to help me code.

Tags: Begging, Coffee, Donations

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Still no more coding from me - I’m trying to get back into it again but it’s not flowing. I’m having fun playing some games though, especially on the Wii.

It’s good to see after all the months of the machine not being anywhere and rarer than a hen’s tooth it’s available here and there… Wii in stock at Amazon!

We are playing Big Brain Academy at the moment - cheap and nasty, but fun, and hopefully getting the kids to actually think a little.

Hopefully next news will have more to do with remake coding.

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Just a little note to make you aware that I have just released (finally) the Mac OSX version of Super Obliteration.

Many thanks to Guy, it wouldn’t be compiled for Os X without you.

After having a few Mac guys test it it seems to work so… Enjoy!

Tags: Amiga, Mac, Update

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I was cooking with gas there for a while. I finished off all my projects.

But… now what? I’m not sure what to do and seem to have fell on my face, remaking wise.

Does anyone have any ideas for a fun and simple game I can get my coding teeth into for a little while until I find something else that I want to do…?

A playable fun little game to make to fill in the game until I decide my next project?

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