Author: John

According to the BBC…..

“Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses, a security firm has warned. The warning is being issued because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines.” Well, no surprises there. It begs the question – why do ATMs need to run a windowing system? There was no

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Recursive Pachydermic Snufflings

Effie the elephant isn’t so much an elephant as an elefumble. The difficulty comes when her nasty habit becomes apparent. Effie is known to frequent the darker and danker regions of the less salubrious airports where she indulges in her passion for luggage snuffling. She snuffles luggage. In a word, she snorts trunks. With her

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We-ell

Ok, I’ve done some more modifications to the full screen rendering setup so that my framework uses quartz hardware acceleration for the 2D stuff. A couple of the guys at RetroSpec have suggested I use OpenGL for all the 2D stuff but, given that I’m doing this for fun, I’m not entirely sure I want

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Christmas approaches from the east on black wings.

Well it does, and there’s no escaping it. Two salaries till the big day and one salary is entirely spoken for by estate agency fees :-/ The boys are keen on an import Nintendo DS, but that aint going to leave much room to maneuver. We’ll see what happens. Our house went on the market

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Yak Attack

Download An unofficial sequel to Attack of the Mutant Camels, Yak Attack has more in common with Dropzone on the C64. Graham Goring was so incredibly shit at this game that I released a special “Pansy-foo-foo” edition for him. This version is toned down quite a bit (because it was originally really hard). I defy

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Splat!

Download My first remake (unless you count a bloody awful game called Lizards for Linux. Splat! is a remake of another 1982 title, this time by incentive software. This was written after I first got into contact with Andy Noble and before RetroSpec was formed. This game is notable for giving Andy’s famous red brick

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Pssst!

Download Probably my fave 🙂 This was my second remake – of Ultimate’s 1982 spectrum game of the same name. It was written for DOS, originally, but this version has been ported to run on any version of Windows. Graphics by the lovely Andy Noble, featuring the second appearance of the famous red brick tile.

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Headbangers Heaven

Download Well, this was a kinda joke really 😉 I was in the retrospec clubhouse one day and Graham was slagging me off about coding on speed and, to cut a long story short, I made this stupid boast that I could do a remake in an afternoon. Sadly, the others pounced on me and

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Gemstorm

Download Technically, this isn’t finished, but as it never will be, it was released anyway. I do still have the Blitz Basic 3D source code for this if anyone wants to take it on. Basically, it’s a 3Dish version of Boulderdash/Repton. It was originally going to have 64 levels but, well, my house burned down

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