Mark Kirkby

Coder, Microlight pilot, Biker, Homebrewer, Runner, Rocker, Nature lover, owned by cats, hate FM, the Tories & Bankers

[Mark Kirkby @spectron1983]

@retrohouruk now what's this I see in the background of a retro shop in the latest season of Halo (S02E04)?

[Mark Kirkby @spectron1983]

@displaced80 @SWRetroComp @BinaryDinosaurs @billysastard1 @SharpworksMZ @retrokatg @r3trogam3boy @Devilish_Design @Retro_Computers And destroy the UK coding industry 😂

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@KevEdwardsRetro As a practical computer...utterly crap, as an educational powerhouse, utterly brilliant. My first BASIC, my first machine code and my first understanding of the basics of computing. My career started right there

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@RAF_Luton A Canberra cruising at 3ft? Utter rubbish

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@RetroElectroDad @BinaryDinosaurs @KevEdwardsRetro Exactly...just now

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@0xC0DE6502 Exactly the same as Asteroids in the arcades. Whilst the % chance may be different, you can just randomly die as well as appearing on an asteroid

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@thetdepodcast I've followed every interview from the start and this is the most insightful & informative one I have ever listened to. Thanks so much to Jeff & all you guys for creating something that records this incredible history for us and future generations. Jeff, you're a feckin hero!

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@thetdepodcast @RMCRetro I've followed every interview from the start and this is the most insightful & informative one I have ever listened to. Thanks so much to Jeff & all you guys for creating something that records this incredible history for us and future generations. Jeff, you're a feckin hero!

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@HillF1

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@HillF1 The Ligier JS11 from 1979 is quite simply the most beautiful F1 car ever made. Doubt it will ever be surpassed

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@JazRignall Should've done a bit of a Google really...especially as Doomsday castle was a bit familiar, but I was a bit pi££ed at the time...😁

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@JazRignall I got them all apart from the first which thought was the character from the Pyramid on the speccy.....

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@BreakIntoProg @SteveJGow The good old Italian tune up..

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@JazRignall ... and of course designed by some bloke called Eugene Jarvis. I'm sure I've heard that name before. 🤔🤔

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@0xC0DE6502 Can't imagine how stressful it must be to know someone is unpicking your 35-40 year old code 😂🤣.... balanced of course by the fact that someone is interested in unpicking your 35-40 year old code!

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@t2_steve Excellent, didn't realise Shaun had his own channel and some of those interviews are definitely worth catching up on. Worked with him in the past and definitely a really nice guy.

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@ShakyBarnes @TerribleMaps Yeah....not law though is it Einstein?

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@MrJamesMay Visually and intuitively, it's completely wrong

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@BreakIntoProg Indeed, utterly brilliant. All downhill from there though really.

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@BreakIntoProg @HumansNoContext And took me so long to work why my scrolling asteroids avoiding BASIC program occasionally ran out of memory...using just enough memory to cover the spaces to the left would do it when those asteroids were randomly spaced...thats proper coding education right there....