@Blerkotron

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User Blerk - gamer, retro gamer, coder, writer, ZX Spectrum fanboy, miserable old git. Best before 1990. May contain nuts.
Blerkotronic Softwarehttps://blerkotron.itch.io/
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GitHubhttps://github.com/Blerkotron
Blerkotron15h ago
Games That Weren't15h ago

A completely different development of Vixen by Martech has been recovered for the ZX Spectrum and released on Games That Weren't today. An alternate reality of how the game could have been:

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/04/vixen-v1/

Blerkotron1d ago
Natasha ðŸ‡ªðŸ‡º2d ago

The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)

"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."

Blerkotron1d ago
Elizabeth Ayer2d ago

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

Debugging Leadership
Blerkotron2d ago
Plugged the Steam Deck into the telly and played some Megabonk on the big screen for a change. And... it was great! I should do that more often, I've barely used the dock since I bought it.
Blerkotron3d ago
Huge relief to finally have a few days off. All those people who say they'd get bored if they didn't work.... You're doing not working wrong.
Blerkotron3d ago
Bob3d ago
Do you see a Tortoise?
#Mosstodon
Blerkotron3d ago
Dr Johnny Blanchard3d ago
It's a long bank holiday in the UK, so all versions of Jurl and Mille are pay what you want (incl. nothing) over on https://tonsomo.itch.io #IndieDev #RetroDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming
Tonsomo Entertainment - itch.io

itch.io
Show threadBlerkotron3d ago
A fantastic run-through of all the bugs in Jet Set Willy (and their official and unofficial fixes) is available here: https://skoolkid.github.io/jetsetwilly/reference/bugs.html
Jet Set Willy: Bugs

Show threadBlerkotron3d ago
At some point later on Software Projects does actually acknowledge this, and provides a simple patch (one POKE, added to the game's loader program) which can be applied to rectify the problem.
Show threadBlerkotron3d ago
For people who don't know, there's a bug in the original release whereby when you enter a room called 'The Attic' an arrow fires but doesn't terminate properly, and this corrupts the memory for some of the other screens. This means that when you enter those screens later, even on subsequent games, you die immediately and lose all of your lives. You have to reload the game entirely to fix this.