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“His Legacy Will Live On In Every Accurately Emulated Spectrum” – Mark Woodmass, Creator Of The SpecEmu Emulator, Has Passed Away

Woodmass also made his own games. The man behind one of the best ZX Spectrum emulators, SpecEmu, has passed away, we’re sad to report. News of Mark Woodmass’ death was posted on the Spectrum Computing forum a couple of days ago. Also known as ‘Woody’ or ‘Woodster’, he will always be remembered for his work…

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Taking a heroic stand against the holy trinity, 5 bears beat a WoW dungeon on its highest difficulty—Blizzard says oops, quickly reverts 200% buff that caused it

World of Warcraft: Midnight has had some trouble with its class balancing—some of this is fair enough, given Blizzard completely redesigned the game’s specialisations (there’s close to 40 of them) to better suit a world without UI mods. This had, uh, some consequences. Consequences like, for instance, five bears rocking up to your dungeon and…

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Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance

Education technology company Instructure has “reached an agreement” with the hacker group that breached its systems for a second time earlier this month. Most recently, hacker group ShinyHunters had exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data from the company’s cloud-based learning management system Canvas. This breach potentially exposed the names, email addresses, and private messages of…

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Original Football Manager Creator Returns To The ZX Spectrum, Just In Time For The 2026 World Cup

‘ZX Football Manager – The Legacy Collection’ combines “Three flavours” of the classic game. The creator of the football management sim, Kevin Toms, is partnering up with the homebrew publisher Midnight Brew Games for a new ZX Spectrum-based collection, inspired by the series that made him famous. ZX Football Manager – The Legacy Collection is…

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Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we’re hitting ‘diminishing returns’ with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important

These days, I’m firmly on the System Shock side of the System Shock/BioShock division that exists almost exclusively in my head, but I’ll give Rapture this: it was goddamn stunning when I first took that bathysphere jaunt back in 2007. The barnacled art deco was a heck of a look, and it still is today….

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