That’s the fella! Cheers!
43 years of programming games; from Vic-20 to PS5! The LEGO game guy, The Ocean Loader Guy. 56 shipped titles, 240M sales. Retro Game Code archiver/documenter. Happy Chappy. Occasional Magician. Typography snob. BAFTA member.
1,301 followers 237 following 752 posts
view profile on Bluesky
That’s the fella! Cheers!
Those images were mock-ups on Melbourne Draw, one version of the ad actually had Melbourne's menu on one of the images! :o)
The only thing I can say about Scooby is that Elite still owe us £250 for the gig as they decided to nobble us when it came to final payment at the end. I believe the phrase hurled at the 17-year-old me was; "ha!, so sue me!". I got my sweet revenge 16 years later, but that's another story!
Looks beautiful! Love it!
I wish I had the time my friend (any time), first chance I've had to hit a computer all week outside of filling in forms :o( It's a proper classic game - beautiful design.
A modern classic!
Impressive stuff! Kudos!
Sweet!
It's a great read. Eye opening in fact. Recommended!
It all comes flooding back doesn’t it? It’s so much easier the second time around - experience is a wonderful thing! Looking good!
Nice one! I loved hand rolling rasterisers, clippers, 8 bit maths routines. Such a nice time.
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 405 - August 24th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
Yeah midpoint was the way I went on the 8 bits, but used divides on 16 bits. Potentially Elite's method with 8 bit logs for divides is faster in most cases over midpoint, but I wasn't smart enough to realise in '85!
Oh what! He always came across as a lovely fella - someone that interpreted and invoked the law in a "human" way. Always the nice guys go first.
Bresenham's circle algorithm blew my mind more than his line draw back in the day (which itself was a stroke of genius) - such wonderful thinking.
Loving those ropes! Verlet? Looks beautiful.
Blimey, that is mini! What do you make of it? I can't see why you couldn't fully emulate the look of the vector scan monitor these days.
See, told you, you would make a difference ;o)
Looks bloody lovely mate. Doffs cap.
It sort of depends on the platform (like in th'olden days on Z80/6502 I used to divide and conquer until the endpoint touched the clip window). For parametrics I used Cohen Sutherland for the longest time on 68K and early x86 I switched to Liang-Barsky for a while as it's marginally more efficient.
Yeah I watched it, really enjoyed it. Scott has spoken to me many times over the years about doing one with him - just that my corporate masters always wanted oversight which was frankly ridiculous (I missed doing documentaries ‘cos of that). Now I’m free from those chains I’d be happy to do it.
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 404 - August 17th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
First colour computer I ever saw at an amateur radio rally my old fella went to! I was blown away by the Rubiks Cube solver. Had to wait for the Vic-20 before I experienced colour computing at home though.
I use Sugru mouldable glue to reenforce all our lightning cables - works incredibly well. Not had to buy the girls new charge cables in years - used to be four or five a year!
Hey Matty! We need a reunion too!
Update 4 is live! 🎉 ✨ Animation video previews ✨ Dark & light theme toggle ✨ Better navigation ✨ Animation player Full release notes: mesh2motion.org/news Try it out: app.mesh2motion.org Would love your feedback — what should I improve or add next?
Archiving old game disks! My idea of heaven :o) Looking forward to what comes up next!
You're on fire at the moment with all these new recoveries! Keep 'em coming!
Looking good Mr M - ripping up nicely!
Enjoy! It's fabulous! Have a wander through the Disneyland Hotel - it smells divine in there! Get your pitch in early for the evening light shows!
Next Up - Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball !
Cool!
The other one was TFT - The Filthy Truth - that was proper "lower than whale shit"
I know, bloody enormous :o) I've recovered all my floppies over the years, I just need to kick myself up the arse to get it hooked up to a PC somehow!
This is very cool...
Our 8 and 16 bit stuff was done on an ST based cross assembler - I have a 30MB ST hard drive with heavens knows how much source code on it; I thought 30MB was HUGE and would be enough space to last forever! I must try and recover it; I think they're SCSI-16 drives in there.
Damn it. They’re the one thing I didn’t find in my dad’s attic. How annoying. I’ll keep looking out for a reasonably priced one!
Sjasmplus
The Nick Hampshire books I used to have them all back in the day, Pet, Vic and C64 - I must try and get them all again.
They are :o) github.com/Paulie68000
C'mon, really? No XvT, no Freespace, No WC1 / WC3, No iWar...
Ahhh man, sorry to hear that :o( Great engineers are hard to come by, so hopefully you won't be looking for long.
Interesting... Will be keeping an eye on this.
Get you! Proper impressive is that!
On the train top Manchester Ste used to take the mickey out of the (excellent) ST Bubble Bobble port as it required an extra load for the final boss (everything was pre-shifted, so Dave was out of memory by the end) Of course, the whole game fit into one 64K block on his C64 version :o)
Oh yeah! I missed my own pun! 😀
Now that’s a rare puppy.
Bravo Waz - that was beautiful and fitting. ❤️
Man. That literally brought a tear to my eye. I still remember the day he walked into Blue Chip Computers in Wigan and loaded it up in Electrosound to show what he'd done. From that point on I knew he was the real deal and we would work together. So, so sad.
A stone cold classic.
Pete was also prolific in the Remix scene - do check out his work, it is stunning. remix64.com/news/peter-c...
He wrote Ocean Dries Up a few years earlier; once he came to Ocean I had to get it into Freeload. Always loved the tune - it was the first time I really saw his genius.
The uber nerd in me wants to go and visit the shop just to see the plaque!
Yeah, I introduced Pete to Rick Kay back in the day - he had one of our music demo disks from us doing the Repton 3 music for Richard on the 64. Denarius was a lovely little game, the tune was originally on Pete’s first demo.
Head over Heels. It's a modern day classic of an 80s classic.
40 years ago I teamed up with Peter Clarke to create music and sound drivers for the C64. He composed "Ocean Dries Up" or Ocean Loader 3 as it is now known, along with numerous SID classics like Bubble Bobble, Head over Heels, Double Take and Scooby Doo. Today Peter left us - RIP my friend, RIP 😢
IP lawyer knows nothing about game dev, film at eleven...
NYT confuses 1K of trivial Z80 based state machine code, with modern large language model neural networks, film at eleven.
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 401 - July 27th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
are you fucking kidding me. the lens flares in DK Bananza are in the shape of a bunch of bananas
Dang. Probably should've read the article first! That's such a shame. Hope he's recovered.
Dang girl! 🔥
More treasure from Dad’s attic; my first forays into demo programming via this little beastie!
John was such a smart fellow - wonder what he's up to these days - everything he did was a technical tour de force. I'm sure he put out a 3D engine prototype on ST that didn't seem to come to anything - I seem to remember it being super fast.
First peep at our native 8K Pure Pool Pro - very proud of this one - it looks soooo good.
A masterwork from one of the original "old guard" of game dev, the legend that is Sean "STB" Barrett.
...and done in Affinity - my weapon of choice. I'm a logo and typography fiend - but I can't get within a nautical mile of your work. Something for me to aspire to. Incidentally, the Bat logo came from Warner Bros, but the re-imagined Ocean logo in the same colours came from Ocean's art department.
Good shout, hopefully I'll see you both there! Catch up on the world of VR too!
I'm trying to figure out who is peeping out from your Amigas in the background :o)
Seven years ago! How time flies! True nepotistic story - Dave and I share the same Uncle - didn't realise until I got to Ocean! Legend!
Finally! Nattering IRL! Not been to an EGX in ages.
Damn. This is so good. If you watch one thing today, make it this. @scott.hanselman.com
Just had something similar with my dad - several weeks in hospital but things are coming back now he's home. It's a very strange condition. Keep positive,keep talking and things will hopefully get much better. Hugs to you both.
Ooo, I'd forgotten about that! I might just haul my ass down there!
🎱 The wait is almost over. Pure Pool Pro's first gameplay trailer drops Monday. Here's a first glimpse! WISHLIST NOW: loom.ly/uHcNymk #PurePoolPro #PurePool #8Ball #9Ball #Snooker #Wishlist #IndieGames
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 399 - July 13th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
Now that is properly up my street! Awesome sauce.
Hmm, I guess there's no really good era for a Bond vis a vis the misogyny... Let's just say the really pretty lady coming out of the sea instead.
New Bond girl!
You know I'd love to - your podcast is a thing of legends! It was a bit of a pain previously with a building full of lawyers always wanting to stick their oars in to any media referring to any century ;o) (which is why I missed out on being in a few retro documentaries). I'm clear of that now!
The GreaselWeasel - such a lovely piece of kit - I've recovered hundreds of my old C64 source disks with it - those 5.25" disks were incredibly resilient.
Proper proud of you mate. What an achievement!
Nope. I'd rather shat in my hands and clap.
Perfect response. Abuse has no place in any relationship. Well done on hoofing him out.
Stunningly good. Takes me back to our game box. Awesome work!
They are beautiful recreations - well done - bravo!
Too cool for school!
You're a bloody hero mate. You've earned every penny for Special Effect. Bravo.
Beautiful.
Sssshhh! Don't tell! Everyone will realise my nobody status is for real!
Activision for you back then - they stiffed us after Star Trek Invasion that allowed Genepool to poach a load of the ST:I team (although our lawyers ensured Activision paid for the contract breach) and then once they'd got their (bloody lovely) game they stiffed Genepool. Shame; Ironman looked ace.
Damn! Hope you guys are OK.
What a bunch of wank puffins!
Happy Birthday Harry! Hope you've had a corker of a day xx
Such a shame.
Did War Spirits not ship? I remember Allan showing me that way, way back. Looked really nice for a PSOne.
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 396 - June 22nd, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
Good heavens Harry ❤️!
Was it Fatbabies or TheFilthyTruth that used to have posts subject "Not Saville" when someone had died?
That is what you call a PC! Maybe keep it in the freezer!