Visit HEY.
Ignore all the other shooters.
Play Halley’s Comet.

Outrun DX: sadly not for tall folk

A regal photograph of Bear Catamus with a Post-It note attached that says it’s his birthday

The Birthday Bear

Dick Warlock and Dick Ziker are my favourite stunt Dicks

An MC68000P8 CPU with vintage glue applied to each corner

An 8MHz 68000. So powerful, it has to be glued down for your safety.

STAR WARS® THE BISCUIT

One of the lesser-known spin-offs

I dreamt the other day I was at a funfair with a whole area dedicated to Little & Large, complete with impersonators standing at the entrance to each attraction (none of which I went into). I remember being disappointed that the real Syd and Eddie weren't there. What this all means, I have no idea.

-You finish that air freshener advert?

-Sure did boss real fuckin junglist just like you asked

-What?

This is a work of historical significance and you deserve a knighthood for preserving it.

A List of things to do today Wake up

Cracking video as usual. I ended up going through YT searching for funky gems among the continuity music preceding the shows.

Two men once came into my primary school and wheeled out the TV and VCR. We felt violated but mostly sad we'd no longer get our weekly 'free' lesson watching ITV Schools.

Lucky it wasn’t that damn custom

A PCB where a trace ends suddenly a few millimeters away from a via.

Hmm

A TMS5200NL with corroded pins

How many legs do we think will remain when I remove this from its socket?

Yes and especially good for Windows

A box of Halfords Microfibre cloths

Excellent font choice, Halfords

The discs from the Galaxian 3 arcade game have speech on the analog track and music on the digital track. They're routed to different speakers via the outputs on the back of the LD players.

Oops, VARTA’d

16 piles of 5.25" disks, including various DOS games

A selection of DOS games and software from my childhood on 5.25" disk

It wasn’t cancelled AFAIK; it just had a very low production run as it was produced for the IDYA motion cabinet (see also Cyber Sterra)

It appears to be based on the NeoDanji emulator

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World, NH is reportedly operational again, having had one of its LaserDisc players replaced. Go play it while it still works (I hear they're open over the long weekend.)

Herb Alpert's - Route 101 YouTube video by Herb Alpert

Happy birthday! Have fun and be sure to channel your inner Herb Alpert: youtu.be/7GCLdCu2vm4?...

A YM2151 rendition of Theatre Escape

A YM2151 rendition of Late for Work

A YM2151 rendition of The Gremlin Rag from the cancelled Atari arcade game

welephant and spikey bonifire night.wmv YouTube video by wexford1956

Happy Bonfire Night! Be safe.

youtu.be/On9X-s2caOI