Mark Kirkby

@retrohouruk now what's this I see in the background of a retro shop in the latest season of Halo (S02E04)?

@displaced80 @SWRetroComp @BinaryDinosaurs @billysastard1 @SharpworksMZ @retrokatg @r3trogam3boy @Devilish_Design @Retro_Computers And destroy the UK coding industry 😂

For today’s #RetroTrio we have the #Sharp #MZ80K, #Acorn #Electron and #Sinclair #ZX81. Which do you keep, gift and delete from history? #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #VideoGames

@KevEdwardsRetro As a practical computer...utterly crap, as an educational powerhouse, utterly brilliant. My first BASIC, my first machine code and my first understanding of the basics of computing. My career started right there

Happy birthday to the Sinclair ZX81 - launched on the 5th March 1981 (43 years). For many people in the UK it was their first home computer and one of the reasons they work in the computer industry today. Available ready built, or as a kit, as many machines from that period were

@RAF_Luton A Canberra cruising at 3ft? Utter rubbish

Fact of the Day: Vulcan pilots on the Fast Aerial Response Team were given Ferraris as company cars so that they could respond to scrambles (Sorry Sophie) quicker. Crews could be scrambled (Sorry Sophie) in just 800.85mins! Photographed from a Canberra

@RetroElectroDad @BinaryDinosaurs @KevEdwardsRetro Exactly...just now

@BinaryDinosaurs @KevEdwardsRetro Just now! 😮

Here's a genuine, old nursery rhyme book from 1982 that we were given recently with lots of other books. I have decided not to read this to my grandson. You'll see why. Very, very dark.

@0xC0DE6502 Exactly the same as Asteroids in the arcades. Whilst the % chance may be different, you can just randomly die as well as appearing on an asteroid

Acornsoft Meteors fun fact #1. Did you ever swear at the screen or hit Ctrl+Break in anger because sometimes your spaceship explodes after a hyperjump, even when no meteors are near? Turns out this is by design! A hyperjump will fail on purpose ~15.6% of the time

@thetdepodcast I've followed every interview from the start and this is the most insightful & informative one I have ever listened to. Thanks so much to Jeff & all you guys for creating something that records this incredible history for us and future generations. Jeff, you're a feckin hero!

01/02 TDE Episode 35 Jeff Bell was a hardware engineer in Atari Inc’s coin-op division and officially the longest serving employee of the company; literally the last person to switch off the lights in 2004. teddabneyexperience.com/episodes/tde-e…

@thetdepodcast @RMCRetro I've followed every interview from the start and this is the most insightful & informative one I have ever listened to. Thanks so much to Jeff & all you guys for creating something that records this incredible history for us and future generations. Jeff, you're a feckin hero!

@HillF1 The Ligier JS11 from 1979 is quite simply the most beautiful F1 car ever made. Doubt it will ever be surpassed

I honestly prefer the look of the old ground effect cars more than nearly all other F1 cars. They look like they are made to race. What do you think? I know. You'll say the lovely spindly 1960's cars. But they look to fragile. These are muscle cars. Agree? #f1

@JazRignall Should've done a bit of a Google really...especially as Doomsday castle was a bit familiar, but I was a bit pi££ed at the time...😁

@spectron1983 It is. He was in two other games as well.

This 40-year-old quiz from CRASH magazine is one for the really old folks. How many of these sprites can you identify? I got the lot. But then again, I remember reading this in the back of my parents car in 1984. So weird I can remember that - but not what I had for dinner...

@JazRignall I got them all apart from the first which thought was the character from the Pyramid on the speccy.....

And the answers, for those still struggling... a) Ziggy (Doomsday Castle) b) Bugaboo the Flea c) Miner Willy (Manic Miner) d) Chuckie Egg e) Horace f) Jetman (Jet Pac)

@BreakIntoProg @SteveJGow The good old Italian tune up..

@JazRignall ... and of course designed by some bloke called Eugene Jarvis. I'm sure I've heard that name before. 🤔🤔

Crazy shooter NARC also featured new tech - digitized sprites that went on to become popular in games like Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter. Apache 3, Op Thunderbolt, Ikari III, Metal Hawk, Tetris, and Splatterhouse were more traditional arcade fare. I really loved the latter! 2/2

@0xC0DE6502 Can't imagine how stressful it must be to know someone is unpicking your 35-40 year old code 😂🤣.... balanced of course by the fact that someone is interested in unpicking your 35-40 year old code!

It's a thing of beauty when a retro game is fully disassembled and fully understood. Sensible function and variable names have been added. Like getting into the mind of the original game dev. Bonus points for spotting unused data/code, minor bugs and possible optimisations

@t2_steve Excellent, didn't realise Shaun had his own channel and some of those interviews are definitely worth catching up on. Worked with him in the past and definitely a really nice guy.

Had a great time chatting to Shaun McClure for a podcast. See youtube.com/watch?v=Gzxb7A… A good channel to subscribe to.

@ShakyBarnes @TerribleMaps Yeah....not law though is it Einstein?

@TerribleMaps Misleading—The reality is that there is not a national law in the US Federalized system. There are various state laws and typically companies offer maternity leave whether required by law or not. It’s very common for companies to offer maternity leave.

Paid maternity leave for new mothers

@MrJamesMay Visually and intuitively, it's completely wrong

I’m driving the BYD Dolphin and it’s all very pleasant, but I think the drive selector rocker switch is back-to-front. My mate says it’s logical. Who is right? It’s bothering me (more than it should).

@BreakIntoProg Indeed, utterly brilliant. All downhill from there though really.

@BreakIntoProg @HumansNoContext And took me so long to work why my scrolling asteroids avoiding BASIC program occasionally ran out of memory...using just enough memory to cover the spaces to the left would do it when those asteroids were randomly spaced...thats proper coding education right there....

You may be old, but are you this old?