The wee rare key has decided not to read the ram cart... time for a clean.

#mattelaquarius #mattelaquarius2

Time for some wee blue key action!! 💙 Ahhh... The gentle hiss of RF white noise 😁😎👍#mattelaquarius

Time for some Bomb Catching action!!

#mattelaquarius #bombcatcher2

A belated birthday play of Tron Deadly Discs on the #MattelAquarius with a control scheme I'm sure came from the mind of @daph2theb

So we did again sort of a 'long game jam' for retro machines with not too many games.

It's called "Obscure Systems" in the name, but that's just telling they got just a few title during their lifetime.

This time it was on the #MattelAquarius, a very short lived computer with a Z80 and two PALs in it (and obsiously a bit of RAM and ROM).

That was fun, and the result can be seen here : https://itch.io/jam/rpuos-mattel-aquarius/entries?fbclid=IwAR1a6FBicGyOIqf39x9dDG8DtroeL1525pYPGOyXqm7KKPofzWNCBgSRiK8

Come on all you fellow wee blue key owners!! All my games are back in stock at the fantastic Cronosoft store! New games on physical media for your Aquarius! What you waiting for?!
#mattelaquarius
@Simon_Cronosoft
https://buff.ly/427qDXz

Write a game in only 10 lines of BASIC and only 72 characters per line! - Challenge accepted!
@Basic10L #mattelaquarius #astrorun
Here is my Mattel Aquarius 10 Liner for the 2023 competition. Why not have a go of AstroRun!!

https://loudscotsbloke.itch.io/astrorun

No stream tonight, not feeling up to it. There are plenty of old streams over on my YouTube channel tho such as this #MattelAquarius one

https://youtu.be/N7-W8bHZqvM

Just finished my latest 10Liner game for the humble Mattel Aquarius! If you would like to play AstroRun, you can now grab it from here.. https://buff.ly/3ZrW0us

#mattelaquarius

Fiddling with CROSS-LIB and some C based maze generation code, need to look further at the RNG (had to revert to srand() here) but seems quite good.

Behold screenshots from the #ZXSpectrum, #MattelAquarius, #MasterSystem and if that's too much Z80 the #VIC20 too

Need to do another #MattelAquarius type in stream.. Actually need to see if it works with my new RF box thingy

Why not treat your Wee Blue Key to a Christmas gift! Head over to Cronosoft and get a real physical cassette release of my games! #aquariworm #bombcatcher2 #doomsdaydefender #warpfactor #mattelaquarius

https://buff.ly/3EvMcaZ

#cronosoft #nonprofit

👍😎

Well, that was an unexpected surprise (sound on) #MattelAquarius

Both of my recent type in streams embedded together to crash your browser #ZXSpectrum #MattelAquarius

https://www.jimblimey.com/blog/type-in-livestreams/

Really enjoyed last night's #MattelAquarius stream despite the technical issues.. Will have to do it again sometime

https://youtu.be/N7-W8bHZqvM

Join me live in 5 for a #MattelAquarius type in stream!

Link, as always, is in bio!

Aqua PCB Is a Big Upgrade for the Mattel Aquarius - In case you weren’t around in the 80s, or you happened to blink, you may have miss... - https://hackaday.com/2022/10/15/aqua-pcb-is-a-big-upgrade-for-the-mattel-aquarius/ #arduinomega2560 #retrocomputing #mattelaquarius #retrocomputer #arduinohacks #arduinomega #zilogz80 #arduino #mattel #z80

RT @loudscotsbloke@twitter.com

Master tape is here!!! Testing on real hardware!!! If all goes well, Warp Factor will be available to purchase from Cronosoft very soon! #mattelaquarius #warpfactor

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/loudscotsbloke/status/1572308277849096194

With absolutely no preparation I am going to attempt to type in a program from my #ZXSpectrum manual into the #MattelAquarius