evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I'm delighted to announce the release of my latest Elite-related project: the Elite Compendium for the BBC Master.

The Compendium is a collection of the very best of Acornsoft Elite, updated with as many hacks and enhancements as I've been able to fit in. If you're looking to play 8-bit Elite, then this is a pretty good place to start.

You can find out more information at https://www.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium.html

You can play the Compendium in your browser at https://bbc.godbolt.org/?model=Master&autoboot&disc=https://www.bbcelite.com/versions/elite_compendium/elite-compendium.dsd

The Compendium contains four versions of Elite - BBC Master 128, 6502 Second Processor, BBC Micro disc and Teletext Elite - plus the Elite Universe Editor.

All the games have been updated to run beautifully on the Master, with flicker-free ships and planets, music, and volume control for both music and sound effects.

The BBC Master 128 version also has features backported from the various other 6502 versions (such as Trumbles! red lasers! insta-docking! and more).

Enjoy!

#bbcmicro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit

American physicist and chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett was born #OTD in 1898.

She was the inventor of a technique for making non-reflecting "invisible" glass, a material used in virtually all camera lenses & many other optical devices. She was also responsible for developing an instrument that can measure film thicknesses to within a few angstroms. She did research on methods of removing ice from airplane wings. She is also credited with the development of a new type of smoke screen.

#science

Donations aren't what they seem

Összesen 7 óra volt kirakni. Úgymond challanger nehézségű. Nagyon jól szórakoztam! 😊

Good morning Mastodon.

Some excellent cloud action this morning.

#sillyScribbles #photography #clouds #silly #dinosaur #drawing

Right. Time to stop 1. scrolling through old photos, 2. booping animals and 3. making numbered lists, which seems to have been my thing this evening. 'night!

#sillyScribbles #boop #photography #chicken #bird #silly

It came to my attention yesterday that #photoJanuary2024 is going on & I totally missed it in the chaos of the new year. So I'm joining in for day 8 which has a theme of "Shot in 2022".

I picked this one because

1. I really like the dragonfly, and

2. it still makes me laugh that I thought it had some weird & wonderful stripy proboscis but what I was actually looking at was a wasp's bum as wasp was devoured.

Dragonflies are proper wee beasties.

#photography #dragonfly #nature #Scotland

So had an interesting Sunday evening shopping for food. Found this on one of the POS machines in a local supermarket.

@SwiftOnSecurity this explains the origins of the name “splunk collector”

#silentSunday #photography #frost #nature #icetodon

I forgot I had a better photo of the fog/steam.

Went for a walk this morning & my reverie was interrupted by the rhythmic whoooomp - whooooomp of a swan flying by. I paused to watch, turning to track its flight & shading my eyes from the low winter sun.

So aye. Apparently I salute swans now.

Didn't get a photo of the swan, so have this artist's impression with the more obliging robin in my garden.

#sillyScribbles #photography #robin #bird #silly

glitchy

#Caturday

Who did it better?

I’ll be chatting with Nikki Bedi tomorrow on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live show at 9am about #mythicalcreatures, and probably bees, goats and the Wimblestone too.

Okay I'm sorry, I still can't get over this fucking voice-controlled IoT smart bidet thing.

*pbbt* *plop* *pfffbtbtbtf* *plop* *plop* *plop*
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that-" *plop* "- could you try again?"
*pbbbbbbtbtbbt* *plop* *plop*
"Shuffling Billy Joel on Spotify"
*pbrrrttttt*
*Freezing cold water begins aggressively jetting directly onto your ballsack*
*pbbbbrrt plop plop plop*
"IT'S NIIIINE O'CLOCK ON A SATUR-" *pbfffffffttttttt* "DAA-" *plop plop plop* "Y~~"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA

Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

Slightly annoyed I didn't do a hashtag for the Friday Dancers. I didn't realise I would commit so thoroughly to my ill-thought-out aim to "add a dancer every Friday until I run out of space".

If I add one now everyone who has faved or boosted an old one gets notified, which is a bit much for a vanity hashtag, so I'll just point out that I have nicely tagged them on my website.

It's a proper old school website too. No adverts. No pop-ups. No cookies.

See all 31 here...

https://eclectech.co.uk/gifsTag?tag=FridayDancers

Welcome to the future, goats and monkeys.

[ credit: https://stoney.monster/@stoneymonster/111592567052438463
h/t @chebra ]