Josh Renaud

kirkman.bsky.social

26 November 2025 20:02

🕹️☎️ Some gaming history for your Thanksgiving week. In the early 1990s, programmers writing online games for BBSes faced a LOT of constraints, from slow modems to extremely limited sound and graphics. How did they work around those limitations? (1/x) #retrocomputing #gamedev #retrogaming #bbs

L Break Into Program

breakintoprogram.co.uk

06 June 2025 17:29

Acorn Electron Elite is okay, but somewhat lacking compared to the original. @markmoxon.bsky.social is doing some voodoo trickery to put that right, with the aid of additional sideways RAM on the Elk.

Mark Moxon

markmoxon.bsky.social

06 June 2025 17:29

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! (In enhanced #Acorn #Electron #Elite, that is.) The speed isn't bad, considering the sun is probably the most screen-memory-intensive (i.e. slow) feature of #BBCMicro Elite. More clips in thread. (1/3) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit