Turning a Twitter Thread into a Blog Post

Sometimes after posting to Twitter I’ll decide that I should really archive the information as a blog post. For single tweets that’s as easy (or difficult) as copying the text and images and publishing. For Twitter threads, it could be a lot more complicated. With a bit of latera … | Continue reading


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My most popular posts of 2022

2022 was a mixed year for me. I secured my own studio and continued to be hugely productive, creating some of my best ever work. Unfortunately, I experienced multiple traumatic events, and their lingering effects knocked out the last third of the year and beyond. Life-changing, a … | Continue reading


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Kawase Hasui's Imaginary World Tour

My favourite artist is Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) who was a printmaker during Japan’s shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement of woodblock printing in the early 20th century. I’m lucky enough to own a book containing his complete collection of his prints, as well as many other books fea … | Continue reading


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Gaming Advent Calendar

At the start of December I decided to do a sort of “gaming advent calendar”, a single-tweet review of a bunch of my favourite video games. I’m collecting them here for posterity. Hopefully you will find something of interest in the list. Each tweet contained: hashtag #GamingAdve … | Continue reading


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Updating the Becker Cascade navigation filesystem

I have a Becker Traffic Pro 7949 car audio and navigation system in my LHD Renault Twingo mk1. This unit, effectively a re-badged Becker Cascade with a green OLED screen rather than colour, was bundled with high-end sports cars of German and Italian origin, but I added one to my … | Continue reading


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Open Studios: Christmas 2022

This weekend I’m taking part in Christmas Open Studios at Krowji in Redruth. FRI 2nd Dec, 5pm–9pm SAT 3rd Dec, 10am–4pm SUN 4th Dec, 10am–4pm See you there!? You’ll be able to buy my art and play my games. More info: https://www.krowji.org.uk/open-studios/ | Continue reading


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The biggest crime in pop music?

The re-recorded version of “Ride on Time” (featuring an uncredited Heather Small on vocals) released in the UK on Deconstruction Records. It was (re)made as the original samples couldn’t be cleared. The track’s success is what gave us M People, for better or worse. Sadly this v … | Continue reading


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Recovered: Sega Exclusives on Palm OS

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Basilisk II Macintosh 68K emulator ported to iPadOS

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Fixing bugs using Bird on Palm OS

Tenohira Hanafuda Kai (掌花札 kai) is a koi-koi card game for Palm OS, created in 2001 by Hiroki Takahashi. It’s a fun game with varying difficulty, stats tracking, and lovely high-resolution (for the time!) colour graphics. But, it has one serious problem: sometimes it will forfeit … | Continue reading


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Playing Hanafuda on Palm OS in a web browser

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Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist

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Japanese text support on English Palm OS devices

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Aquaplus P/ECE (Vs Panic Playdate)

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Playdate 1-bit illustration postmortem

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Daily Driver: Channelling RGB into 1-bit

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Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh

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