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Jayenkai
Created : 03 February 2022
Edited : 03 February 2022

#553 - News Imagination



Weekly Newsletter


News Imagination

#553 - Thursday 03rd February, 2022

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Hello World


Mum and My birthday's this month, hers this week, and mine towards the end of the month. We both decided new bedroom drawers would be the best way to go.

We got Mum two bedside chest of drawers from Amazon, but as of typing, only one of them has been built up.
With my distinctly rubbish levels of energy and fitness, I'm absolutely freakin' exhausted from doing one. We're probably going to leave it a couple of days before tackling the second.

Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be tackling my room. Clearing out probably a decade of untouched mess, and building up a couple of larger ikea drawer sets.
Given how knackered the 3-drawer slimline bedside cabinet left me, not really looking forward to building up a giant 6-drawer, 5.5ft chest of drawers!!..
Hmmm..

This might kill me!!
     socoder.net/?Topic=8594

SoCoder


Flapping On

Rychan continues to work on Flap Happy, squeezing out a few more morsels of memory as he shaves the poor bird.
.. In between rescuing a PC!
     socoder.net/?GotoPost=82378

iPad Coding

Pakz is getting on quite well with Codea on iOS, which allows you to code games straight on the iPad.
Woot!
He's now discovering the horrors of having to write things for different resolutions and screen ratios.
     socoder.net/?Blogs=82377

What Have You Done

The return of the irregular thread where we discuss all the things we've done during the month.
     socoder.net/?Topic=8590

SoPuzzling


Worldly Wordle Success

The online game Wordle is a direct rip from the ITV gameshow Lingo.
Jay knows this, because last January 2021, Jay also ripped off the gameshow and put it into the Shoebox of Games. (Wordle wasn't a thing until October 2021)

Wordle took on stratospheric levels of popularity, and has now been bought by the New York Times.. Even though it's just a basic word game idea, and is quite frankly as much of a rip off as Jay's version.

The creator of Wordle pockets millions.
Jay's version continues to be ignored.

Jay isn't pissed off about this, or the 100 different newspaper-ready puzzles that he coded in Foldapuz, either.

Nope.
Not at all.

Congratulations to the Wordle guy.
     socoder.net/?Topic=8595

SoRetro


JavaCPC Desktop

A new CPC emulator, for Win/Mac/Linux, that uses Java as its core.
Includes the ability to load from virtual tapes (using wav recordings of the originals), as well as having some nice hardware plugins emulated, and more.
     sourceforge.net/projects/javacpc/

Puzzle Bobble C64

What better way to showcase the colourful palette of a C64 than with a nice port of Puzzle Bobble. What could possibly go wrong!?!
     csdb.dk/release/?id=213965

10 Liners Combo

This year's BASIC10Liners combo has kicked off.
If you want to enter, you have until March 26, 2022, to submit your entry.
Why not try writing something using the JavaCPC emulator..?!
     basic10liner.com

SoMelodical


More Perfume

TomToad lets us know of another Perfume concert available on Amazon Prime Video.
I'm SO happy that I can actually properly enjoy stuff like this, nowadays. Long gone are the days of Kazaa, Morpheus and Newsgroups being my only way to enjoy proper music.
     socoder.net/?GotoPost=82392

SoGrumpyJay


Jay quickly finds it annoying when magazines repeat themselves

Having started to regularly read magazines again for the first time in a decade, Jay quickly finds it annoying when magazines repeat themselves.
     socoder.net/?Topic=8589

bad tutorial

Jay tries to follow a bad tutorial, but the Bad Tutorial randomly jumps Between different capitalisation Rules for one of its Variable Names and Jay ends up getting ConfuSed As heLl later on down the line.
     socoder.net/?Topic=8593

SoTinyCoder


  --v

     GotoJSE.com/cgDwkGWq.BAS

If you'd like to write your own 40x25 mini game, check out the Box-Coding thread.
     socoder.net/?Topic=8555

KiloTube


Happy Thirtieth, Sonic


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Musical Interlude

Wheelie Bins rejoice
     youtu.be/z7YfFwiij2g

Rocks

Mmmm, rocks..
     youtu.be/EfdwRRpiYGQ

MegaTube


Reminder to Backup


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Afterlife Art

Adam takes a look at the Ghostbusters art department
     youtu.be/DgT4eSpAQVg

GigaTube


Boiling Vodka

.. as you do..

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Happy Puppets

     youtu.be/_krGKwq3kcg

Meal Pursuits


5 days on 5 pounds

Atomic Shrimp goes shopping for 5 days.

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Revenue Persuits


Ad Blockers

Linus gets into a wild argument over YouTube Ad Blockers

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In Conversation


RIP : Barry Cryer

Richard Herring interviewed Barry Cryer, last year.

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80s Cover Corner



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MovieCover Corner



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     youtu.be/Gy6Es2LYiqg

VGRemix Corner



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