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Paul "Paulie" Hughes

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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.

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Add to basket!

04.03.2026 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I remember typing this in from Your Computer. Genius.

04.03.2026 22:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should go to ZZap live - you'd love it - retro heaven!

04.03.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happens to me all the time! Its a great "surprise" ๐Ÿ˜€

24.02.2026 22:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is stunning. Christ, what a talent.

24.02.2026 22:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I had one jazz drive disk it lasted a couple of months! Dreadful things. I was well miffed when I couldnโ€™t recover a bunch of source backups from them. Not a single disk would read.

23.02.2026 23:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 429 - February 22nd, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

23.02.2026 14:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 49 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blimey, I couldn't get any of my zip disks to read across multiple drives. I've got a bunch of Z2 stuff from the old Warthog backups preserved too. Must see if John or Ste would like it.

23.02.2026 22:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Similarly - the Ocean loading music...

22.02.2026 19:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wrote many an 8 bit driver back in the day - had zero music skills, but I could modulate sound like a demon :o) Tim's stuff on NES was untouchable.

22.02.2026 18:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nailed it!

20.02.2026 14:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prophylactics for tongues! Who knew!

20.02.2026 14:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The 8086 segment registers used to drive me potty. Life got a lot easier with the flat memory protected mode. I'm with you on 68000, though. Loved it.

20.02.2026 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I used it back in the day too - Ste and I were both reading the Sybex 8086 manual en route to Manchester whilst learning the op codes! It was the first assembler I found!

19.02.2026 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Y'know, "Learn C++ By Example" is a cracking book, especially if, like me, you learned the language in the late 80s and haven't fully followed all the new syntactic foibles of the modern-day version. Very readable, and an antidote to my "why on earth would you want to do that" (mostly!).

19.02.2026 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These articles are wonderful. An incredible programmer in Geoff Crammond, and the number one reverse engineering wizard, Mark Moxon. Some truly beautiful code in here.

19.02.2026 17:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sold!

17.02.2026 23:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Snasm for me on Amiga with Brief + macros as an IDE.

17.02.2026 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good old devpac! Still have my copy in the attic. Brief is up there too!

17.02.2026 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He taught you countless great lessons about the business - long may the lessons be paid forward. I love hearing those stories!

17.02.2026 18:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 428 - February 15th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

17.02.2026 17:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 50 ๐Ÿ” 20 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I built my first ZX81 in kit form at the tender age of 13! The machine gave me my game dev career - I'm still at it 44 years later. Bless Uncle Clive!

13.02.2026 22:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...and so, today, game #56 is out. Please enjoy - we're so very proud of it.

12.02.2026 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heaven!

08.02.2026 17:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ahhh, you're far too kind! I learned so much from our numerous conversations and letters (yes, actual handwritten, posted letters!) I still have them too. Uridium and Paradroid were game changers - both masterpieces (even if I could never complete the former).

08.02.2026 17:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nah, we run at 120fps at 4K too ;o)

05.02.2026 19:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check out the Native 8K trailer too!

05.02.2026 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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04.02.2026 12:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 426 - February 1st, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

02.02.2026 14:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 55 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I miss cranking out sprite grabbers and what have you!

02.02.2026 14:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0