Author Archives: icabod

Prism: Replacing Drivebelts

April 17, 2008 – 7:02 pm

A long long time ago (in a galaxy very similar to our own) I wrote for small-press fanzine “PD Power”, published by Prism PD. It was all about the ZX Spectrum, specifically the Public Domain software scene – this was after the demise of wonder-zine Your Sinclair, which kind of marked the end of the [...]

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WIP: Upcoming Production

April 11, 2008 – 2:27 pm

I’m always interested to see what people are working on, and I think it can add to some excitement and expectation – sometimes unfounded, but often it gives a good idea of what’s to come. For example playing beta versions of games – sure they may be a little rough around the edges, but they [...]

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raww.orgy 2008 report

March 10, 2008 – 1:05 pm

On February 15th 2008, the fourth raww.orgy began. Pronounced “raw dot orgy” (in a similar fashion to my main website being pronounced “raw dot org”), it’s one of only two demoparties to take place in the United Kingdom, the other being the multi-format, and much larger Sundown. Prior to the first raww.orgy, which took place [...]

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raww.orgy 2008 player

February 22, 2008 – 10:45 am

Well my latest release has been, uhm, released – it’s the player from last weekend’s raww.orgy demoparty. It’s a simple enough idea – a single program to both show the graphics entries for the competition, and to also play the music. For those who have seen the previous party-players, yes it’s based on the same [...]

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The perils of online translation

February 19, 2008 – 9:24 am

Here’s the thing – I don’t read Russian. Like many non-English languages, I simply don’t get it (if it were a programming language I’d have learned it in about a week). However being a ZX scener there are a lot of websites with news and comment in Russian (or a variation of it). So I [...]

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Theme me up Scottie

February 12, 2008 – 6:28 pm

While I was in the process of upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, I figured it may be a good time to switch themes… to the bland one you have in front of you. I think it looks nice, even if it’s a little simple, and it’s not changed much since I tested it [...]

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ASCii 2007 Logo Competition

November 25, 2007 – 4:38 pm

In a manner similar to that of the Gasman, I thought I’d upload the screenie I did for this weekend’s ASCii competition being held over in Izhevsk. The competition I took part in was to design a logo for the party. I did it in quick time, making the decision to take part on my [...]

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