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Summer Holiday
Back at the end of July, I had a 2 week holiday in which i went on a mini road-trip to scotland, glasgow and manchester to name a few places. They say a picture paints a 1000 words which is good because I did not write much down when I was away, but I did […]
Intros: Other
Over the years I have coded intros for several other groups. The 1st one was for a friend called ‘Mimic’ it was made because he had hacked one of my intros and changed the logo or text so I decided to quickly code an intro + editor for him to use. I also compiled a […]
Intros: Entropy
After leaving TAT, I joined entropy and hit the ground running. UZZY was a very fast coder and already had several finished intros with editors and this spurred me to make better intros and also massively improve my editor system. I did not make many intros but instead concentrated on quality and I think they […]
X – Marks the Spot
“Oh the irony, a demo from G*P themed around pirates” This demo was created and released at X’18 (where it finished 4th), it is a clever play on the theme of pirates and also the name of the demo party. The demo starts with a picture of Black Beard and one on his quotes and […]
Intros
Intros are a necessary step in everyone’s coding journey. Usually you’ll start with ripping music or character sets and designing a screen to say who ripped it and then next logical step is to design and code your own intro. This is where you take your first steps into scrollers, screen splits, raster bars (sometimes) […]
My Broken Laptop
This year I decided that It was time refresh my 4 year old laptop with a newer, fresher faster model, and at the same time get one with a smaller screen.After making a list of what I wanted it to include, I set about finding one that matched my list. As my previous one was […]
Event Horizon
This is your classic ghost-ship story. The one where a “ship” disappears with all hands lost and them suddenley reapears several years later. The main twist with this one is that it has moved from the usual high-seas to outer-space, still within our solor system so it feels local in it location. The main players […]
Memento Mori
As we are all aware the year 2020 has been possible the worst year in our time and i cannot remember another year that even comes close, I think you would have to go back to the 2nd world war to find one With all the social restrictions that have been put in place and […]
Anna
A Russian women is recruited into a Russian secret organisation similar to the American cia. As the film starts these two organisations are at war with each other with the Russians kidnapping and beheading every American agent they can find in Moscow and then shipping them all back to CIA headquarters in America.The movie jumps […]
Ready Player One
Ready player one tells the story of a not so distant future where society has crumbled and most people now live in what are called stacks (they look like caravans on top of each other, hence the name). A virtual reality has been created where most people spend their time playing video games this is […]
Venom
I am not sure what to make of this film, its not a badly made movie, its just that i cannot help but feel that it was trying to be one things but ended up either short of the original target or something completely different.As I write this i have not seen the other venom […]
The Predator
This is my review of the new Shane black movie “The Predator”. I will be honest and say that I was a little skeptical of how this was going to play out given some of the recent reboot movies that have come out. I am glad to say that this one is not a reboot, […]
Rambo: last blood
Stallone returns to another one of his earliest roles in the 5th instalment of the Rambo series.We find our reluctant hero on his ranch, training horses and living the simple life. He also seems to finally have found peace in his life, even though he has dug an extensive tunnel network in his front yard.He […]
Australian Pink Floyd
Finally after months of waiting the day has arrived when i go to see what has been called ‘the best tribute band in the world’….. ….. and boy they did not disappoint. From the very start the whole band were pretty much pitch and note perfect. The 1st section of the show they ran through […]
Delirious 11
The legendary Delirious demo series marks a welcome return of the legendary c64 coder ‘Raistlin’. The demo starts off with what I can only assume is actually Raistlin in bed back in 1992. It looks like he is enjoying his nap time a little too much as the year counter starts to click forward as […]
New Kid with A Breadbox (Case, October 1998) revised 2018
When I first wrote the following article some 20 years ago, the c64 should have been in its swan-song era, the Amiga was the machine to have and people were migrating in droves, myself included. However, as I read the article recently I realised that what I had written still rings true today, in fact […]
The Dirt
This is a movie made by NETFLIX, loosely based upon the autobiography of the same name. It tells the story of Motley Crue, there rise to fame and all the things that they got up to and lived to tell the tales of.As with most films of this type, they have taken some liberties and […]
Bohemian Rhapsody
I am not a big queen fan, like most people i know the hits and like the majority of them so when i started watching this it was just on in the background whilst i was doing other stuff. However fairly soon i noticed that i was watching the film more than i was doing […]