Those of us who love retro gaming tend to be insatiable. There’s just a certain quality to older video games that’s almost inexplicably satisfying, no matter how beautiful and sophisticated modern video games may become. Additionally, a lot of retro games can be played Read More …
The arcade business of the 80s and 90s was a decidedly daunting one. While some games achieved immortality by being ported to every home platform under the sun, less popular titles died an anonymous death, living on today only through obscure ROM dumps found Read More …
Analogue Televsion standards, eh. They’re not something you have to think about everyday, are they? That is, of course, unless you were French and bought an Atari VCS. If you were, instead of looking like this: Your games would Read More …
Sorry i haven’t been as active around here lately, but until everything’s back to normal here’s a nice tid bit brought to my attention by Ocean veteran Mark Jones (who’s well worth a follow if you’re interested in Spectrum art stuff.) Now, if you’re into Read More …
Like everyone else, i was a bit wary of Tidal’s music streaming service when it was announced, but now my music has finally had a fair number of plays it’s hard to argue with the figures. In the image below, the line contained in the Read More …
Last year I actually made some New Year’s Resolutions. Lets see how they went: Do a spot of tidying up around ‘ere Finish the E.P. I started at the end of last year Make an actual fully fledged game. Well i completed 1 at least Read More …
To celebrate, here’s a festive pixel dinosaur head. See you all in 2016!
A weird gig in many ways. Would many people turn up to see a partial PIL line up play a bastardised version of a 30 year old album? Yes, apparently they would: when we rocked up at the village underground, the que was round the Read More …
You are drab and miserable, but you are home. Even if you didn’t elect me as mayor.
Londoners! It has come to my attention that our candidates for the office of the mayor are all entirely unacceptable: Boris Johnson has entirely forgotten about his bold Bus-destroying agenda of 2008, Ken has pledged to take out just 8 of the big red monstrosities Read More …
It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce that on Friday my fiance, against her better judgment, finally became Mrs Fatnick. Much like a man being run over by a steam, I am chuffed to bits and still feel incredibly lucky. Here is the happy Read More …
Happy 30th Birthday Zx Spectrum! You were so much better than the C64. Well done to Google for their ingenious St George’s day/Zx Spectrum doodle.
For the Terrible Lizard Kitty. She’s being neutered this morning. If you here any reports of any sky scrapers being felled, that will be why.
In happy spectrum world
Yes, Using the powers of modern technology, you can HEAR my face: You could actually take that and SEE my face again, if you had the right tech of course. Isn’t technology grand?
Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of ZX Spectrum music as part of research for an EXCITING new project. As the AY-3-8912 soundchip found in the Speccy was an incredible piece of kit, and many of the artists who wrote for it thoughtful, intelligent Read More …
Ongoing economic crisis. New Ipads overheating. The ever-present threat of war in the Middle East. Pfft! The world’s got bigger fish to fry: Here comes the Terrible Lizard Kitty Attack of the Terrible Lizard Kitty by FatNick
Every night it hums. Relentlessly, endlessly, malevolently. This is the Monitor.
In the old days it was simple: If you wanted a DAW, you either went with Cubase, Logic or Cakewalk. There were a couple of others, but these were ever really expensive or just plain weird. So then, it came as a bit of a Read More …