The Design Museum in London has a lot of retro including dtune Sinclair kit. #zxspectrum #Sinclair #retro

I mentioned #Ringo, the UK car park company, in my earlier posts and it started to get me thinking (and angry, yes just like we all do) about how these companies manage to create a business that allows them to distance themselves from the customer. Ringo use an app to allow you to pay for your parking, pay as you go, with the advantage of the app notifying you when your parking runs out. However, with all these tech companies, there are no staff to help, quite unhelpful customer services and they charge extra above the displayed price (if there is a pay machine, which may or may not work). How many more companies are like this (AirBnB comes to mind) and how long can we go on like this? Where will it all end? Should we be thinking of the children? #crapCompanies

A post on WOS (The lesser used Spectrum forum ), reminded me of my first own bought computer magazine, Your Computer and the #vic20 type-in listing of Snake. From this listing I learnt how to redesign the character set and create UDGS on a #vic20
#retrogaming #computermagazines

Here's one for people in the UK. Things you never see on the road there's days. For instance signs in cars that read:
"tax disc in the post"
"Running in, please overtake"
Can anyone think of anything else?

I wonder? What was the real reason for 2000AD to give Hammerstein an original 'war' head, in the story Robusters?
#2000ad #robusters #hammerstein

Do you remember when Pc graphics ran on Voodoo magic?

Today in Heavy on the Magick, I found where the monster stats were kept. So I lowered Apex to try and kill him. Oops, it worked. But brave heart everyone, he does come back. #HOTM #zxspectrum #retroGaming

Today's Heavy on the Magick tip is creating exits. If you are able to run HOTM on an emulator and edit the memory (normally via a built in debugger), you can find the current room's exist at address 0xaf96 (44951). Each byte holds the possible exit in the order of NW, N, NE, SW, S, SE, W, E. Where a 0 means no exit, 1-4 same level, 6-9 up a level, 11-14 down a level. As the rooms are laid out in a grid, you can just create an exit in the required slot and hey presto, Axil can walk into the next room in that direction. #HOTM #GargoyleGames #ZXSpectrum #retroGaming #retroHacking

Did you have holidays in the UK in the 70s or 80s? Did you stay in a holiday park? Was the local shop's magazine shelf full of those summer specials? #retro #comics #holidays