Doomheaven Moves to GitHub Pages

It started life as a Doom fan site back in the late 90s — WADs, screenshots, whatever bits of Doom nonsense felt worth putting on the web at the time. It’s sat online quietly ever since, hosted the whole way through by teamhellspawn.com, who’ve now let me know they’re winding things down.

I want to say a proper thank you to them for that. Free webspace for the better part of three decades is a genuinely long time to keep something ticking over for no reason beyond being decent about it, and rather than just switching it off, they gave me the chance to get everything off in one piece before it went. Not everyone bothers with that on the way out, so it was appreciated.

BBC Twitter Bot Fun

More fun playing with BBC Twitter Bot.

https://tco/ks0jhudxdM

https://t.co/xBabCMPWCX

https://tco/jVpUMLBa8D

https://tco/Rt3DOf1FOh

Beebasm Mac Catalina

Got a new Mac with Catalina pre-installed, so had to compile my own version of Beebasm for the 64 bit OS.

BeebAsm.zip

10 PRINT6502

BBC Micro machine code take on C64 10 Print one line random pattern generator.

Code at Github 10print.asm

\ 10 PRINT
\ Using BeebASM assembler
\ (c) Alastair Montgomery

INCLUDE "../lib/constants.asm"
seed = &70

ORG &2000

.start
    LDA #23
    STA seed
    LDA #63
    STA seed+1
    LDX #0
.char
    LDA chartable, X
    JSR oswrch
    INX
    CPX #23
    BNE char
.loop
    JSR random
    BMI two
.one
    LDA #224
    JMP print
.two
    LDA #225
.print
    JSR oswrch
    JMP loop
.finish
    RTS
.random
    INCLUDE "../lib/random.asm"
.chartable
    EQUB 22,0
    EQUB 23,224,8,8,12,7,224,48,16,16
    EQUB 23,225,16,16,48,224,7,12,8,8
.end

SAVE "MyCode", start, end

6502 Assembly Language

Been trying to relearn 6502 assembly language for fun, its a lot faster and easier than the first time on actual hardware when I was a teenager.

Been using a book I picked up from eBay Discovering BBC Micro Machine Code by A.P. Stephenson

Using BeebAsm assembler on my Mac with a BBC Micro emulator, rather than build in BBC BASIC one.

You can find my code at Github https://github.com/alastairhm/beebasm

This example draws a line of zeros to Mode 7, see screenshot below.

10 PRINT

BBC Micro take on C64 10 Print one line random pattern generator.

10 MODE 0
20 N=RND(1):IF N > 0.5 THEN PRINT "/"; ELSE PRINT "\";
30 GOTO 20
RUN

Twitter Post

Golden Tail and Kitsune's Curse New Retro Game

New retro game, looks worth getting a Amstrad CPC emulator setup to play it.

Video Source Retro Collection

Juan’s games: (https://www.usebox.net/jjm/)

Buy physical copies of these games:

Golden Tail

Kitsune Curse

Mree

Mr. Ee from Micro Power for the BBC Micro nice variation on the Pacman theme.

Play Online at BBC Mirco

Acorn Electron Sound Mod

Interest video about modding the Acorn Electron.

The Pit New Retro Game

New retro game, looks worth getting a Commodore emulator setup to play it.

This style of game is one of my favorites, loved Boulder Dash and Repton.

Video Source Retro Collection

The Pit Download

Play Online

Retro Gaming Commando

One of the games I loved playing in my youth on my BBC Micro, I’m still rubbish at it to this day.

Links

Play Online at BBC Mirco

Game FAQs

Cubes #retro

via Instagram bit.ly/2E4BXbz January 04, 2018 at 01:44PM http://bit.ly/2lSucyd, January 04, 2018 at 01:44PM

Make a Raspberry Pi Portable Arcade Console (with Retropie)

Looks like a cool project without doing a full arcade machine.

Killer Gorilla on the BBC Micro

Not a bad attempt after 20 odd years of not playing.

Retro style wall art

via Instagram ift.tt/1QurfPp December 17, 2015 at 10:02AM http://flic.kr/p/C7423d, December 17, 2015 at 10:02AM

Acorn Electron in a webpage

Just discovered this an Acorn Electron emulator running on a Web page
http://elkjs.azurewebsites.net/

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

20p at car boot sale for retro #coffee

Note: 1 of this post’s 2 links is now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published.

via Instagram ift.tt/1mn0xrq July 06, 2014 at 05:59PM http://flic.kr/p/nWEn7G, July 06, 2014 at 07:19PM

Day 244 80s retro

http://flic.kr/p/hTpGcY, November 27, 2013 at 12:35PM

US Army Jeep Detail

Note: 5 of this post’s 6 links are now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published.

Via Flickr:
US Army Jeep detail, taken at the Wath Street Fair 2011

Available as a post card.

US Army Jeep by doodle_m
Shop for another postcard design from Zazzle

FxCamera App

The iPhone guys at work have been talking about a retro camera app for their phones, so I’ve decided to look at what’s available for the Android platform.

The second one I’ve checked out is Fx Camera

FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects,

ToyCam (number of colour mode and vignetting settings available with randomizer)
Polandroid (number of colour mode and film type settings available)
Fisheye
SymmetriCam
Warhol
Normal

It works quite well for the ToyCam and Polandroid but the other three modes are more of a novelty than something you’d use all the time. Downside it has a maximum picture resolution of 960 by 640 pixels. It is 1524kb in size and can be moved to the SD card.

Toy Cam Examples

Polandroid Examples

SymmetriCam Example

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Retro Camera App Android

The iPhone guys at work have been talking about a retro camera app for their phones, so I’ve decided to look at what’s available for the Android platform.

The first one I’ve checked out is Retro Camera

The free ad supported version gives you five retro camera types to play with, see example shots below. The application is a fairly chunky 6179 kb but can be moved to the SD card. It has a novel interface which replicates the retro camera but this reduces the viewfinder size which can be a problem.

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Retro Camera App for Android

Note: 8 of this post’s 19 links are now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published.

The iPhone guys at work have been talking about a retro camera app for their phones, so I’ve decided to look at what’s available for the Android platform.

The first one I’ve checked out is Retro Camera

The free ad supported version gives you five retro camera types to play with, see example shots below. The application is a fairly chunky 6179 kb but can be moved to the SD card. It has a novel interface which replicates the retro camera but this reduces the viewfinder size which can be a problem.

Alastair Montgomery’s Photography

Chuckie Egg in DHTML

Note: 1 of this post’s 3 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

Sometime your jaw just drops

Almost perfect version of Chuckie Egg written in DHTML with level editor.

http://marklomas.net/ch-egg/dhtmlch-egg/playch-egg.htm

Installing Repton 1 under Wine

Installing Repton 1 under Wine
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Installing the Windows Repton 1 under Wine running on Ubuntu 9.10 using XCFE window manager.

Good news that it works apart small issues with the responsiveness of the pointer in the menus.

Download and buy at http://www.superiorinteractive.com/repton/

You can run it full screen or in a window as shown below.

Even after 25 years away from the game I still remembered how to do the first level, scary or what.

Arcade Puppy

Arcade Puppy
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

While hunting about of instructions to install Python on Puppy Linux I came across Arcade Puppy.

Basically a version 4.2 variation with a lot of retro game system emulators installed.

Picture shows Arcade version of Puppy Linux running on a VirtualBox VM; running the game "Thrust" on the Spectrum emulator.

The 80s Now Have One More Cassette Tape Measure To Be Proud Of [Cassette Tape]

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This is retro cool, just don't try using it in your walkman :)

The 80s Now Have One More Cassette Tape Measure To Be Proud Of [Cassette Tape]

via Gizmodo by Jason Chen on 10/5/09

Only Gama-Go would be able to take a Cassette Tape and make it into a pun-based product that's both useful and compact. Plus, it's only $8. [Gama-Go]

The Secret Of Monkey Island on DosBox

The Secret Of Monkey Island on DosBox
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Finally got round to installing DosBox on my Ubuntu laptop, now I need the time to play Monkey Island.

Dial Up Modem, sound no longer heard?

One sound you don’t hear very often these days, you’d to be something of a comforting sound back in the early days of the interwebs. Maybe its like a white noise machine or something.

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

#Retro

Links

This is retro cool, just don't try using it in your walkman :)