Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
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What's New Wednesday time! Looking at new games on old systems or retro inspired indie titles. Here's a few teaser screenshots.
7.30pm UK today twitch.tv/charliefar
This isn't even my final form...
1995 is Year Of The DOMAN
Discord is terrible.
Discord
Hopefully this will encourage more people to try alternatives like matrix.
Ive been playing around with it, its great once your past the initial setup/permissions issues.
I found to publish a room link, the space or channel has to be set to public, but you can leave it unlisted from the directory
bit of piano in this around 1min in www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CKQ...
oh DARM is it FridaYs already?
Happy New Year! A nice bit of Ys for my first stream of 2026. Yes, I'm streaming on a Saturday. Madness! #MiSTerFPGA #turbografx
8pm UK today twitch.tv/charliefar
What's New Wednesday! Taking a look at more new games on retro systems! Ziona Quest 2 - Part II (Spectrum), Sherwood (C64), Stab'N Dash (Plus/4) & Submarine Attack (Mega Drive). Plus, four more games!
8pm UK today twitch.tv/charliefar
Incase you haven't seen it, this is worth a watch on whats happening with the next.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyP...
First ever showing of a Magenta Next and Dreamtime Monty in the wild at Crash Live! 2025 #zxspectrumnext #zxspectrumnextgames #retrocomputing #retrogaming
Yep the bloat is bad. I tried rejoining last year, hit the "verify your identity" straight away. Glad i didn't as i got the "your information was hacked" email last month.
There is a discord bridge plugin. not sure how useful it is. probs better to dual run initially and hope people try it
no panic, im going to join a few public rooms and get my head around it. currently testing a Gnome client called Chatty , and apparently thunderbird email works with it too.
I got this error MatrixError: [403] You are not invited to this room.
I need to give this a try, been meaning to for years. What client are you using?
We ❤️ the #ARCADE We have made the world's only all-in-one #MiSTerFPGA JAMMA Arcade system.
Multisystem2 JAMMA boards are built, tested & working well. We will have more details & specifications next week.
Working on the enclosure design now, here are the JAMMA boards next to a few iconic machines
What's New Wednesday! Another round of new games for retro systems. I'll be playing them all for the first time live on Twitch.
8pm UK twitch.tv/charliefar
Tada!
I want to love Star Citizen but i gave up on it years ago.
Recently I've got really addicted to Egosoft's X3 games. Took me a long time to "find my feet" with them, but once I got over the initial learning curves they are really in-depth and chill offline games to play.
What's New Wednesday! Today we have an exclusive demo of Boni in Bat Hell 2 on the Spectrum. Plus - Outrun GB (GBC), Umi Bombs (C64), O (Spectrum Next) and much, much more!
8.15pm UK twitch.tv/charliefar
I switched this off months ago. It was driving me crazy the amount of cpu use and hard drive space being sucked up for games I play occasionally.
As much as I love steam and all they have done for linux gaming, I always end up back on local GOG installers
yep same error for me Nivrig. i then tried updating the tbblue_loader.rom and it just give a white screen.
Cspect works quite well with the latest distro
last i checked (in november) it hadnt been updated to support the new 24.11 distro, hence me recommending the included one to hitch. now you mention it though ill have a look ...
oh @retrostreamers.com worth noting , if you get in a mess with Zesarux (likely if your switching configs/machines). - you can reset it to defaults by removing the user config file, which is a hidden file in your home directory ".zesaruxrc"
yeah confusing at first. it goes back to before it was "the next", it was a board called TBblue by Victor Trucco.
youll notice in the Zesarux 12 ubuntu release archive there is a tbblue_loader.rom and tbblue.mmc the autoconfig points to.
Recent zesarux (im using 12)setup is easier than it used to be (it even ships with a small harddisk image)
In the menu, select Machine/vTrucco-FB Labs
The submenu should show either TBblue or ZXNext (same thing)
it will then offer to Autoconfigure the SD image. Agree to this and use included
Heads up - Aleksi just released a port of Ultima I for the Vic-20!! ❤️#vic20 #ultima #retrogamedev #gamedev #ports #commodore
This is Doman , and i guess his husband. A lifelike portrait, probably made in deluxe paint by a 5 year old
DOMAN!
