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• Post #3976911

  Asteroids, the classic arcade game, in only 475 lines? #gamedev #wip #jinksgg

• Post #3740784

  Dottie, my pixel art app, has Quick Look support for both its artwork files and palettes. 🎨 And there's more: one-click imports from Lospec website, plus a ton of legacy formats: .gpl, .pal, .ase/.act/.aco, .clr, etc. including embedded colour names! 🌈 https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

• Post #3521327

  Here’s how the layout of my SNES game is going (512 KB ROM) I plan to fill the free space with lots of levels. #snesdev

• Post #3521247

  I've been using the Tileset mode of my pixel art app Dottie to work on tilesets (obv) and bitmap fonts (yes). This was an early feature request. It's been so long since I pushed a TestFlight the Dottie beta has expired. I'll launch it soon, then! 👌😎 https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

• Post #2438814

  Is there handheld emulation software that’s as good as Onion OS on Miyoo Mini+? It has a great resume feature and a user-friendly interface. Anything running EmulationStation is the polar opposite of this. I'm looking for a new handheld with analog sticks but it needs good UI.

• Post #2438812

  Needless to say, I love this approach to development. "How I made a shooter game in 64 KB" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

• Post #2380398

  A “fun” story I just remembered from App Review: my app Driveaway ejects mounted disk drives, and that includes CD-ROMs. I had to send in a video of me ejecting a physical drive. 🤣 https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6758246708?pt=19577&ct=mastodon&mt=12

• Post #2050442

  Just pushed an update to Feedit, my RSS feed editor. I use it to keep my personal website up-to-date (RSS as a CMS!) and for all my app release feeds. This is by far the tightest most optimised workflow in any of my apps. Very niche but makes life easy! https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759644674?pt=19577&ct=mastodon&mt=12

• Post #2050441

  Palm OS graffiti text input for iOS! https://strokeinput.com

• Post #2050437

  Dreamcast Perfect Catalog New edition with improvements since 2021. Releases 26th May 2026 https://maedahiroyuki.com/20260501-%E3%80%90%E5%A2%97%E8%A3%9C%E6%96%B0%E7%89%88%E3%80%91%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF/

• Post #2050436

  A new DJ mix from me: music with arpeggios, for no other reason that I thought it would be a fun constraint. feat. Alex Metric, Jacques Lu Cont, Rhythim is Rhythim, The Chemical Brothers, Hyper Go Go, Kiesza, RONEeS, Sunareht, BT, Orbital, and more. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/04/26/offset-dj-mix/

• Post #2050434

  A small update to Tabulator, my app for managing Safari tabs & bookmarks. I have an aversion to closing tabs so use it to get a high level view of everything then cleanup is quick and easy! Also supports compact layout meaning vertical tabs in Safari! https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6761341374?pt=19577&ct=mastodon&mt=12

• Post #2050433

  Deep diving into the New 3D Golf Simulation series and the same course data format is used from the original PC-9801 (& I assume X68K & FM Towns), Mega Drive (& probably SFC/SNES), and Virtual Boy! That's 7 unique courses. 🤓 Changes for Saturn (& probably 3DO, PS1, N64, etc) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/113454985730481396

• Post #2050432

  Watched Highlander for the first time (40 years late!) at the cinema tonight. I can't quite verbalise what I saw. Probably WTF is the closest I can get.

• Post #2050431

  This could be the first time Papillon C.C. has been seen in colour rather than shades of red? (WIP, 3D placeholder trees are wrong species/shapes, etc) #new3dgolfsimulation #virtualboy #tesoft #tesoftvirtualgolf #vbgolf #hacking #reverseengineering

• Post #1847464

  This app is shaping up to be a bit of a "USB Doctor". I'm calling it Hubble (hub+trouble, and a different way of looking at things)

• Post #1804539

  I just launched 20 apps that I built over the last several years, and a screensaver that I built whilst waiting for App Store Review! https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/04/17/today-i-shipped-twenty-apps-and-a-screensaver/ 1/22

• Post #1644067

  Free screensaver for macOS feat. 3.5" & 5.25" #FloppyDisk and #MiniDisc (or just your favourite of the three) https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/fits-on-a-floppy/#screensaver

• Post #1534715

  Play the demo of Serenity on Steam! It's a relaxing multi-player space-sandbox with music that changes with your play style. A kind of 3D Electroplankton? Collect spheres to advance, see wondrous things every 10 stages, and get to stage 100 #SteamNextFest https://store.steampowered.com/app/4309910/Serenity_Demo/

• Post #1534692

  Today I shipped 20 apps and a screensaver https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/04/17/today-i-shipped-twenty-apps-and-a-screensaver/ 1/2

• Post #1336146

  Here's my manifesto on Hacker News Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809147

• Post #1141986

  We need more https://whimsical.software

• Post #1083586

  I recently bought, dumped, uploaded... MACLIFE PDF Abridged Edition CD-ROM 1999 This is a CD of PDFs of 12 issues of Japanese Macintosh Magazine MACLIFE from 1999. I also extracted the PDFs so you can browse them on the page without downloading the ISO https://archive.org/details/maclife-1999-pdf-abridged-edition-cd-rom

• Post #724692

  The menu bar items I use on macOS 🤓 https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/21/the-menu-bar-items-i-use-on-macos/