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ardae.bsky.social
Film lecturer@Istanbul University-C, gaming ph.d., digital heritage and retro guy, zx spectrum, Master of BasinC. ref-xx@github
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Boosting AMOS Pro with the AMCAF extension! Yes, I finally get around to the installation of this much talked about extension for Amos. How does the install go? 🤔 Watch to find out. 😅 youtu.be/F63OghCVx08 #amiga #amos #retrocomputing

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When you are researching pirates, you want to know more about the man behind it. i can say sid meier was/is my hero, but how did I miss the book? Anyway It’s a late but fine addition to my library :) Great read, I highly recommend it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Direnen gençlik, 2025

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

No surprises here. I think we could repurpose X as a generative AI trap — a place for brainless trolls and stealth ad threads, so they stay there thinking it’s still full of real people.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Researching Pirates, There are 5 unused .win images: Ship, On Fire, Docks, Fort, Rescue (7.6KB total, viewable via PirateView). I’ve contacted Nostalgia (they repacked thegame in 2012). The person behind it is s!r, who’s apparently been planning to put together an info PDF about the game ever since.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

One of the best #ZXSpectrum pixel artist of the era with some of his best works

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pirates reverse-engineering continues... Graphics are now extracted. The attention to detail is insane: multi-layered interchangeable face sprites, dynamic backgrounds, clothing and hair color variations. All this with BASIC in 87?! This is next-level! This is the AAA of its time. Huge fan.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Twitter marka değerini tamamen yitirdi herhalde, akın akın gidiyor herkes, geride sadece botlar ve "falanca filanca konuda en iyi 10 öneri, başlayalım 1. her gün skimsonik şeyler yapın" gibi içinde kumarhane reklamı geçen threadler falan kaldı.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to reverse-engineer the original Sid Meier's Pirates! C64 code. Written in BASIC, split into 3 parts due to ram constraints. It uses external data files paired with graphics and other assets-spread across two disks, totaling a whopping 232KB. Help is appreciated! :) github.com/ref-xx/Basic...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Twitterın düştüğü duruma üzülmemek elde değil ama internet yolunu bulur.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Twitter haber kaynağı olma özelliğini tamamen yitirmiş görünüyor. Bir haftadır terelelli alakasız bir akış var orda. Tüm aktivite instagrama kaymış. Bluesky’da bile daha fazla içerik buldum. Toplum örgütlenmesini yok etmenin bedeli sadece 40 milyar dolarmış. Amerika için çerez parası.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

ZX Spectrum is getting closer to 43 years old. So here is a new chatgpt ghibli creation of Sir Clive holding a ZX Spectrum and riding a C5.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The ultimate IDE for ZX Spectrum development is back with new features and dozens of bug fixes. After Two Long Years, I managed to release one more BasinC Update. It's bumped to 1.8 now. github.com/ref-xx/basinc For installer or portable binaries, follow the link in the readme.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

istanbul efsaneleri: lale savaşçıları (1992) kullanma kılavuzunda bir bölümün başında bunları öğrenin, sonra sorucaz diyor, sonda bu soru var. :) Bu arada Armağan Amcalar oyunun haritalarını ve senaryoları extract etme işine girişti, şimdiden haritalarda gezilebiliyor: retrojen.org/pano/index.p...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Vay bee, koskoca üniversiteyi düşürdükleri duruma bak... Yazıklar olsun.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Back in the days of punch cards, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and a software patch meant a piece of tape...🦖

submitted 93 days ago • 136 comments

Another sad day. Rest in peace David Lynch, thank you for helping us understand the different aspects of movies and being a weirdo of movie industry. You will be missed.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

#pixelart (From May 2024)

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Daron Acemoğlu'nun nobel aldığı teorisine göre, ülkelerin refah seviyeleri, kurumlarının kapsayıcı ya da sömürücü olacak şekilde kurgulanmasına bağlı. Acaba Türkiyede bu bağlamda ne gibi değişiklikler yapılmalı bu konuda düşünen, çalışan insanlar var mı? Zayıflıklarımızı nasıl tespit edebiliriz?

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Barely made it :D Just finished this year's snowy zx spectrum mini demo :D As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments