The Loud Scots Bloke
Collector, restorer, programmer of 8bit underdogs and defender of the Mattel Aquarius! Regular columnist of "Templeman's Treasures" in Pixel Addict Magazine - loudscotsbloke.itch.io
- Woo hoo!! Major milestone!! Crossed the 1000 downloads mark!! 💪😎 Not bad for some bloke that writes games for a much-maligned 80s computer!! loudscotsbloke.itch.io
- Ok, it's time to look at this poorly UK101
- To my fellow Scots!! 🏴 Have a great Burn's night the night! 🥃 Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang ‘s my arm.
- Which one would you choose??....
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- Ok, the build has begun!! Made even more fun by not having any silk screen pointers!! 😳
- Right, first machine of 2026... What's on my bench?
- Missus back to work today, but I'm off until the 4th.. so decided to redo my tank. I think it's looking great. You don't really get a sense of size on the photo, but it's a 50x25x18 inch tank (385 litre).
- I entered this years VCCC 2025. Was much more difficult than previous years. Of course I had to do a wee blue key entry!The goal was to create a snowflake in the shortest amount of code you can. My goal was to get it under 300 bytes. Managed 297,but squeezed it to 272 on my PET
- What do you mean your PAL Apple //c isn't HDMI and in colour???!!! 😎👍💪
- No fixing tonight... Just fancied some game time. You may be aware that I have a 'thing' for poorly spec'ed / terrible machines, and this is no exception. It's absolutely pants. And I absolutely love it!! Given this distinctive keyboard, it's an easy guess..
- Can't imagine this will take you long... But here goes... What's on the bench tonight folks?
- Something I haven't done in a while.. bought a new C64 game. Here we have Sherwood.. and it's absolutely brilliant!!! Playing on a bread bin, with glorious CRT goodness!
- Some bedtime reading me thinks... Personal Computer World, November 1983. I wonder why I have this particular copy? 😉💙
- Ooooo.... New add-on 😎💪
- Latest repair.. charity shop find. Great wee game!!
- That's where it goes, right??
- On the bench tonight... I hate it when you have a working machine, then put it away for only a few weeks, and when you bring her back out... Screen garbage. So, here we have a nightmare of a machine to work on. Anyone recognise this underpowered oddball??
- Ok.. So after discovering that my keyboard no longer worked on my awesome Enterprise at Cambridge last weekend, I opened her up.. Yup.. membrane completely knackered. New one arrived today, and installed!! The Enterprise is back up and running!! Great version of IK+ !!
- Playing a great new monochromatic game on my lovely C64C. Tony - Montezuma's Gold. 😎💪
- Reposted by The Loud Scots BlokeI have once again created a charity Retro Computer calendar for 2026!! Last year you helped raise £44 for charity by downloading my calendar. Let's try and beat that this year!! 🙏 Thank you!! loudscotsbloke.itch.io/retro-comput...
- Had an absolute blast at this year's event! It's so great speaking to members of the public and discussing all things retro computing!! This year I was in the Dev's room with fellow developers who, like me, still write software for computers that are now 40+ years old!!
- Absolutely fantastic version... Just having a quick go! 🥚
