Mastodawn

I learned that the artist behind the artwork for the game Elite was none other than Philip Castle, the designer of the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, among others.

He passed away on February 20, 2026, at the age of 83 🙏

#PhilipCastle #Elite #RetroGaming #SciFi

Quazatron

Mar 2

Paul Turnbull has moved.🇨🇦Mar 2

Did not expect to hear Brent Spiner schooling Nathan Fillion on The Lingnan!

#Edmonton #YEG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2u5NPDYKd4&t=877s

Once We Were ALL Spacemen

YouTube

Quazatron

Jan 2

Paolo Melchiorre Jan 1

I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚

“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️

See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

Please boost 🙏

#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python

CC @standardebooks

Quazatron

Nov 30

myrmepropagandist Nov 30

I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
reanimate and puppet the faces of your dead ancestors
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask grok
I will fall silent and never speak to you
I will talk only to myself lost in a maze of my own fantasies
I will forget all who cannot compliment me
I will decouple my soul from this world.

Quazatron

Oct 24

@haitchfive Oct 24

Buried in the last Spectrum Next KS3 update there's something that I think is not a minor announcement in passing, but possibly something big that could potentially bring hordes of new indie programmers, designers, artists to the Next platform. And hopefully many more people who stand to play some really good games as well.

A PICO-8 core is under development for the Spectrum Next, meaning the Next will be one of the first computers capable of running actual PICO-8 games on real hardware.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0/posts/4515703?ref=activity

#ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #ZXSpectrumNext #SpectrumNext #retrogaming #pico8

Quazatron

Oct 17

Kris\Slyka Oct 16

ohh heck, I've just been informed that I've been on @hackaday once again!

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/14/a-record-lathe-for-analog-audio-perfection/

A Record Lathe For Analog Audio Perfection

It’s no secret that here at Hackaday we’ve at times been tempted to poke fun at the world of audiophiles, a place where engineering sometimes takes second place to outright silliness. B…

Hackaday

Quazatron

Sep 12, 2025

Jules she/her Sep 11, 2025

I think what a lot of people who go "Mastodon is just a lefty echo chamber for people who can't handle debate!" don't understand is that not everyone uses social media the same way and most of us don't see Oxbridge debating society type arguments as a leisure activity. Normal people are just here to laugh at some memes, maybe see some cat pictures, discover a new band or learn some facts about sea creatures. Not everything has to be about challenging the foundations of your ideology.

Quazatron

Aug 30, 2025

Made a Lego frame to hold the e-ink display for easier handling while developing the software for it. Ugly, but does the job.