The Colouring Book of Retro Computers

Exciting news! I shall keep this brief, I’ve teamed up with Neil over at RMC The Cave to create a very cool colouring book of retro computers (and maybe the odd bit of associated tech too).I’m over the moon and greatly honoured to be tasked with creating all 30 (maybe more) illustrations for this book […]

20% OFF CODE “FOOTY20”

Over at my shop I’ve uploaded the front and backend stuff to enable me to sell customised Footy Canvas prints at long last! To celebrate this fact I’ve also added a discount voucher code which runs until the end of 31st may 2021! Enter this code at checkout to receive 20% off everything, including Pixel […]

The Design Droid – Coupons

I was doing some updates to www.thedesigndroid.co.uk over the weekend and I found the coupons section after a quick read up on how they work. Well , what can I say, how utterly brilliant! Once I’d worked out how to bring in a few graphical assets I then went about adding them all together to […]

Finally, My Shop Lives!

www.thedesigndroid.co.uk Well well well, it appears after what seems like an age and a lot of replies to my wife that “It won’t be long now, almost done” my new shop is finished and is online. Yay!

ZX Spectrum Next – Part 1: Colour Graphics!

You’ve probably heard of the Spectrum Next, right? Out of all the new machines to come out based on the “what if” progression of old hardware, the Next has to be one of the best looking I’ve seen and having learned a bit about the hardware, a very plausible, believable progression in the Spectrum line up. I can’t help but think if Sinclair/Amstrad had continued development of this much loved British Icon it would probably have not been too dissimilar to what we see in the Next today. Now I’m going to be honest with you, I’m a Commodore man, as many of may know, I started out with a Vic-20, progressed through with a C128, C64 and Amiga so it’s safe to say my interest in computers was tainted with the old
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Norwich Amiga Group Meet

I was in Norwich this Saturday just gone visiting my son who is at Uni there, you know the usual thing, taking him shopping (paying for it too – Bank of Dad) and as it happens my visit coincided with the monthly meet of the Norwich Amiga Group, which I’d kindly been invited to by […]

Amiga Expo UK 2024

A few months back I received a message from co-host of the Retro Hour Podcast, Ravi Abbott, a superb podcast I’d previously been a guest on with his Amiga partner in crime Dan Wood. To cut it short Ravi asked me if I would be interested in being a guest speaker at the Kick Start UK 02 event he was organising for the end of June 2024.

The video is now up of that interview.

Premium Aluminium Coasters – No more!

This is just a quick post as a comment on the coasters I sell over at my lil’old art shop The Design Droid. When I sell prints of my art one thing I must get right is that the quality of the print must be as close as possible to the original; whether that be […]

Arcade Attack Interview

Here’s an interview I gave to Arcade Attack posted on YouTube and available now! The interview was audio only but has been turned into a video with various bits of gameplay being shown in the background. Enjoy! And don’t forget to give the guys a like and a subscribe if you like it.

Amiga 1000 Illustration Finished!

Yep it’s done!You can now watch the final part of my series, Colouring in an Amiga 1000, based on the illustration I originally put together for the Colouring Book of Retro Computers Vol.1! Which by the way if you fancy a copy of the book copies are still available at my shop here Now that […]

Amiga 1000 Colouring Part 8 – Almost Done!

After the very long gap between part 6 and part 7 I have made a concerted effort to get part 8 recorded in between doing other things, you know like work ,life and the ZX Spectrum Next! – More on that later! I have been rather busy of late, actually I still am, but a […]

Amiga 1000 Colouring – Part 7 (Finally!)

It’s finally arrived, yes the long overdue part 7 documenting my journey colouring up my black and white illustration of the classic Amiga 1000 computer. Why has it taken so long? Well, I recorded the initial part of the video in January with the finished video planned to be uploaded by the end of the […]

Wormhole Dungeon Rockin’ Tiles

If you’ve read my previous post from early March you would have seen I’ve been working with Tony Warriner on his rather lovely game project, Wormhole Dungeon. My job; add some tiles and make the game level graphics look good. After finishing the initial batch of graphics a month or so back Tony messaged me […]

Dragon Bones – One last dance

As mentioned in my previous dev blog, the animation system used in Blobbit Push was created using a piece of software called Dragon Bones. At the time it worked great but over the years it appears to have been neglected by the developers. So much so that there no longer appears to be a download […]

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