#  @t2_steve Steve Turner Steve Turner posts on X about blue, the new, ready, in the the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::2922727510/interactions)  ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::2922727510/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::2922727510/followers)  ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::2922727510/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) **Social topic influence** [blue](/topic/blue), [the new](/topic/the-new), [ready](/topic/ready), [in the](/topic/in-the), [hex](/topic/hex), [water](/topic/water), [app](/topic/app), [build](/topic/build), [squad](/topic/squad), [sector](/topic/sector) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@uridiumauthor](/creator/undefined) [@ericretro](/creator/undefined) [@hewsonjoystick](/creator/undefined) [@daredev](/creator/undefined) [@ltkojak72](/creator/undefined) [@dizzydevil79](/creator/undefined) [@steam](/creator/undefined) [@audionauts](/creator/undefined) [@sithwimv](/creator/undefined) [@thesplendidfox](/creator/undefined) [@herospectrum](/creator/undefined) [@crashonlineuk](/creator/undefined) [@wizwords](/creator/undefined) [@morphington](/creator/undefined) [@gnomonparallax](/creator/undefined) [@mikecowgill](/creator/undefined) [@arganoid](/creator/undefined) [@fearmyjargon](/creator/undefined) [@lockieglizzy](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bytecoin (BCN)](/topic/byte) [Runes Coin (RUNES)](/topic/runes) [Bobo (BOBO)](/topic/bobo) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@audionauts Unless they changed the tune it was my tune and player. I don't know why Steve Crow is credited. John Cumming did the graphics and level data" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1287829923642695681) 2020-07-27T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Wow forty years ago I asked Andrew to join me to convert my games to the Dragon. At first I had a white table as a desk Andrew had a little brown desk that I think was his Dad's. We had a camping table to stand the printer on" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1699012129582412245) 2023-09-05T10:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SithWimV @UridiumAuthor I also did an Amstrad cpc version. Hewson had arranged a conversion out of house but it did not work out. When I did a progress visit there was nothing to see. The Amstrad was just on the floor by the tv no desk or anything" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1699133321584742569) 2023-09-05T18:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Andrew Hewson took this pic for publicity. I loved that Space Invaders jumper" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1699350027951337850) 2023-09-06T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The good news is the overall game is now working well. Economy progressing sectors found and exploited enemy scouts probing and finding allied sectors. Missions working OK. Just a few issues fixed when missions stopped by enemy or pirate activity" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1700232929723482617) 2023-09-08T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@UridiumAuthor No I looked at the hex it was all zero except the sign bit . I think it happens when you multiply zero with a neg number say [---]. So now my macro tests for x80000000 after casting to an unsigned long" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1705632892364189953) 2023-09-23T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheSplendidFox @hero_spectrum @CrashOnlineUK @Wizwords KLP2 was the favourite character that I created. I remember making up the back story over a couple of pints of beer at the local on Friday night thinking of all the previous exploits of the little droid" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1726176506504753309) 2023-11-19T09:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Morphington No it was was a real hm message to tell me there was a secure message that tells me a statement is not there yet" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1729546015147987356) 2023-11-28T17:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Tried first instal of Deepest Blue on new laptop. [--] dx extension dlls missing. Tried installing dx redistributable but failed as said dx already installed. Found another redis on ms installed that but still can't find the [--] dlls" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1742602754583920802) 2024-01-03T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I get the dreaded XAudioCreate failed trying to run Deepest Blue on the new laptop. I hate these issues such a waste of time" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1744724330960072914) 2024-01-09T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Ready for my 70th birthday week. Unofficial birthday today with the family" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1753730093053088150) 2024-02-03T10:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@GnomonParallax @UridiumAuthor That type in game was written by my Dad. It was a murder mystery. He taught himself Basic found the text parser idea in a book and made up the story" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1784894228780265859) 2024-04-29T10:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@EricRetro @HewsonJoystick That was correct but not sure what happened after Jester went into liquidation" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1796465251472531748) 2024-05-31T08:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@EricRetro @HewsonJoystick I think the original co liquidated and another has formed with a similar name. This may have happened more than once. Sometimes rights are sold y liquidator to the new co" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1796521435504021946) 2024-05-31T12:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@EricRetro @_dareDev @HewsonJoystick I think untransferred ip owned by a liquidated company goes to the Crown" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1796667209781031190) 2024-05-31T22:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@HewsonJoystick @_dareDev @EricRetro I do know that the documention from the receiver for the tfr to 21st was vague and unspecific not mentioning individual titles. Whether any contracts survived I don't know. We didn't even have contracts for many titles" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1796963296051904667) 2024-06-01T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@HewsonJoystick @_dareDev @EricRetro Paradroid90 had an insolvency clause that reverted all rights back to Graftgold which is why that could be sold to Jester" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1796963773036498973) 2024-06-01T17:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@_dareDev @HewsonJoystick @EricRetro I went to the insolvency meeting for Hewson prepared to make on offer but was delayed and arrived after the meeting .The receiver just kept talking in riddles saying he sold all that could be sold and refused to say if that included our titles just released the same mantra" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1797029838227644660) 2024-06-01T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Ltkojak72 @UridiumAuthor We used a parallel interface quicker than serial. Just printed out the pc printer cable wired to c64 parallel interface. Just had to make up a ribbon cable and wrote a little loader. At first we sent ascii hex then later doubled speed with raw hex" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1798302197610094890) 2024-06-05T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Ltkojak72 @UridiumAuthor The nice guys at Avocet wrote us a custom version of the hex exporter to do it in plain hex bytes rather than ascii. That made it really fast with the parallel interface as it loaded a byte per trans cycle" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1798304301607264460) 2024-06-05T10:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MikeCowgill Yes I've worked on a few accounting systems. You balance every transaction so it is impossible to lose money. That is double checked by a trial balance across all accounts. You can't destroy or invent money only move it from [--] or more account to [--] or more accounts. Simples" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1807888214662808043) 2024-07-01T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's official [--] years after the start of Graftgold my new company Graftgold Studios Ltd is registered" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1817153287096770624) 2024-07-27T11:01Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements "@arganoid Probably Steam Almost ready for submission now I have the company set up. Lots of to dos such as install music but now most work is cosmetic. Been tidying messages today there are so many. Pic of freighter v freighter was laying mines in my sector till I got it" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1819855328928059701) 2024-08-03T21:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DizzyDevil79 Sound like you had a hooky copy with no manual. I write games that you can play immediately but take time to master. Balancing the magic is the key. The spell types work like the categories like a top trump card game you build up shield energy firepower" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1820215455505653949) 2024-08-04T21:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DizzyDevil79 The better runes are on the more deadly levels with harder meanies. You combine runes to make the spell types which upgrade you. I used to leave some of the less powerful wizards alive in case I needed to retreat and build up again" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1820216654930088147) 2024-08-04T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@fearmyjargon @UridiumAuthor Bobo was the only game we did not want a Graftgold logo on. It was a favour for Probe. Yes Jason wrote the Powergen game. The colour of the Power gen screen had to be changed at the end" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1826181637157060641) 2024-08-21T08:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@UridiumAuthor No. The GDI works in integer xy positions and draws the chars onto my texture page where I tell it. Sometimes it draws out of the size box it returns. J prints before the size box / print after. The font data just doesn't tell me. I have to add extra space" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1843601165436760349) 2024-10-08T10:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@UridiumAuthor All the fun of .5 amounts comes after that. I have to convert the xy extents to uv coords for later use for the graphic card to convert back into texture positions. That bit is fine but takes rectangles so can't cope if the GDI has overlapped chars without telling me" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1843602322900852783) 2024-10-08T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Almost finished the manual. Counting down to release" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1859530734970491311) 2024-11-21T09:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue ran all night but had a few issues today. All fixed. Here is a miner dumping it's asteroids in the scoop at the mining base" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1866238632832676031) 2024-12-09T21:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Cleared all the old Graftgold documents from the loft. Now I need to sort out any Interesting stuff and bin the rest. There are some really epic faxes from the last [--] years. One is over a yard long" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1941169145388978452) 2025-07-04T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Finished the Deepest Blue credits screen must be nearly finished. Game has not crashed for a week. Revising the manual to include sny tweaks then all set to go" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1941171201948504463) 2025-07-04T16:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I have just joined BlueSky . https://bsky.app/profile/graftgoldstudios.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/graftgoldstudios.bsky.social" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1944033084002947557) 2025-07-12T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Surprised that the Steam menu hot key default is shift tab. That's a standard Windows hotkey that is meant to tab to the previous control used through the gui in my game" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1961514379179966880) 2025-08-29T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I find navigation and updating in steamworks very confusing. Am I just getting old" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1976331800105689374) 2025-10-09T16:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Time for a little break from testing the new version of Deepest Blue so I can read Developers Den. Thanks Vinny. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018661950197219720) 2026-02-03T12:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue new version almost ready. Here a miner is docking to an iceberg the main source of water for the allies" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021980264302620865) 2026-02-12T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "DEEPEST BLUE new version released. Display scaling is fixed. Issues resolved and some HUD displays tweaked. The cruiser was missing its fixed guns. Here it is being tested against a few Seiddab craft. See videos and pics at and give it a wish list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022441869729304783) 2026-02-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "By now really suspicious so went back to app. The trans was cancelled and my card blocked till I answer the suspicious text. No explanation even when I asked help. Had to text YES and start again. It seems their process invites scams as they look like scammers" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023832444668178481) 2026-02-17T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Deepest Blue Oh dear just when I was going to put it an Steam to test. Bit of a water crisis happening the water plant creates it from ice collected by miners. There is plenty of ice so something is stopping processing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1995568561230938346) 2025-12-01T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Sold the old Graftgold office last month. The rental allowed me to retire early but was increasingly more work and red tape for less return. Just been clobbered with capital gains tax although the real value hadnt really gone up just being taxed for [--] years inflation" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999845682648084785) 2025-12-13T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Just opened my copy. Been so busy on Deepest Blue I hadnt chance to read it. Feels so good to finally get it into prerelease on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 Calling all #ZXSpectrum Enthusiasts Treat yourself to a copy of the new issue of FREEZE-ZX zine Its full of new & exclusive gaming content for you and your #Speccy. Head over to https://t.co/Cp0GNfskWC and grab a copy. https://t.co/3lplRKpRUC https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 Calling all #ZXSpectrum Enthusiasts Treat yourself to a copy of the new issue of FREEZE-ZX zine" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1999848506425504042) 2025-12-13T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Never noticed this. Look at the name of the first office carpet I bought" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2000273495461073079) 2025-12-14T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "RIP rhe old Graftgold accounts" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2000274732424294567) 2025-12-14T18:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue: Apologies an early version was released by mistake I uploaded [--] more versions but did not know they were not live. Build V 1.0.03 screen display uses current display settings Frame rate balanced so. #gaming_news via @steam https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806 https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2006020182674718909) 2025-12-30T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Working on a music track for Andrew. Trying to view a pdf of manual for Akai MPC. I hate rhe slider on the left side of the of viewer totally useless on a large doc. It appears and triggers accident as I adjust left right to read. Spend most time finding where I was" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2011427877485731953) 2026-01-14T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The punishment for developers of bad software should be to have to use it until they repent. A slider is of no use if you can't fine adjust. You need non linear control its not hard to implement" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2011428523609649285) 2026-01-14T13:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If anyone that ever played a pirate version of one of my games visited and made a comment or wishlist it would help it get shown to the massive pool of Steam players. http://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/De http://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/De" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022688438085165319) 2026-02-14T15:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Deepest Blue: The destroyer is my perhaps my favourite ship to fight with. Its fast enough to deal with fighters and has a massive forward firepower. Here a destroyer is approaching its squad position ready for action" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022719728859390411) 2026-02-14T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hitching a ride on a carrier. Just set up the overnight run with all my player ships flown by the ai copilot" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1981138389589164043) 2025-10-22T23:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I can honestly say Deepest Blue is the most challenging piece of software I have ever worked on and I have worked on some crazy difficult stuff. I wanted to push an average laptops to the limits like we did in the [--] bit days" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023033035072159987) 2026-02-15T13:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I've been recording the lead guitar for Andrew's title track.When I press record I lose my place in the music. I use a loop so I can get each section right. It's annoying when I do a perfect take but it has switched the record off. Its meant to go to overdub" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023097443496390667) 2026-02-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Lockie_Glizzy Deepest Blue has taken me [--] years to develop solo from the ground up including the game engine. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023792012450034142) 2026-02-17T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Tried to buy a kitchen cab online. My credit card authorised via my fingerprint protected phone app. Then I got a phone calls which I ignored thinking it was a scam. DId not say who it was usually a telltale sign. Then an anon text not saying who it was said bank would text" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023831168475394350) 2026-02-17T18:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The auth screen on the web even says we never call you to get you to authorise. Yet I authorised then they called me on home phone and mobile . Why not use the secure msg system on the app if they needed to check" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/2023833561501950129) 2026-02-17T18:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Feels such a relief to get the new version of Deepest Blue done and dusted. I now need to start testing the remote game across the Internet. I have had it working on my home network with a very dodgy Internet connection on my old laptop. Useful to test error code" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022686825647870058) 2026-02-14T14:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "DEEPEST BLUE new version released. Display scaling is fixed. Issues resolved and some HUD displays tweaked. The cruiser was missing its fixed guns. Here it is being tested against a few Seiddab craft. See videos and pics at and give it a wish list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022441869729304783) 2026-02-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Deepest Blue new version almost ready. Here a miner is docking to an iceberg the main source of water for the allies" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021980264302620865) 2026-02-12T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Time for a little break from testing the new version of Deepest Blue so I can read Developers Den. Thanks Vinny. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018661950197219720) 2026-02-03T12:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Apologies an early version was released by mistake I uploaded [--] more versions but did not know they were not live. Build V 1.0.03 screen display uses current display settings Frame rate balanced so. #gaming_news via @steam https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806 https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/2006020419468304735) 2025-12-30T15:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements ". One day my kids barricaded the front door so I couldnt go back to work for my second shift" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999844551423316122) 2025-12-13T14:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Had a day off yesterday. Feels so strange not programming after putting in about [--] hours a day for the last couple of weeks. Just like the old days programming and testing to the early hours to get a release ready. I used to go back to work after dinner" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/1999844308925444542) 2025-12-13T14:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@GraftgoldStudio Hello I love your game. Can we discuss about your game" [X Link](https://x.com/Ijaodolaore/status/1999289873593680148) 2025-12-12T01:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "After ten years of development Deepest Blue is in prerelease. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999823415427895735) 2025-12-13T12:47Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Beware the Seiddab in the sun The battle for this sector has been raging for ages. both sides decided to claim it and build a base. The Sol Federation got there first and the Seiddab are not happy" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/1989001264688988204) 2025-11-13T16:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The deepest blue ocr cards have arrived. If you are at the Cradh Live show this weekend come and get a signed card" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988547962008391972) 2025-11-12T10:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue. Fun day today testing each ship in the test sector and fine tuning. You can get to the test area from the Dock form where you order ships letting you try them and practice combat against a few enemy ships" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988366544418779205) 2025-11-11T22:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Deepest Blue; Good days testing made a few cosmetic changes and minor adjustments. Been testing the largest scenario option. Here is a freighter about to dock" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987324345182552278) 2025-11-09T01:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue: Found this cool green nebula in one of the enemy sectors. I am in a scout squad following my squad leader. Here is the link to the Steam store page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986075282726379678) 2025-11-05T14:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Just added a couple of videos to the store replacing the video that inadvertently recorded by Mum telling us about the days when you had a tin bath by the stove rather than the game sound" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/1985519148714078631) 2025-11-04T01:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Deepest Blue Steam store page is approved. Its coming1 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983857206207332829) 2025-10-30T11:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Whats more definite I plan to add . I will consider adding . I used the 2nd one and failed review as they said I should not make promises. Weird as I consider doing something before I plan to do it" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/1981691419514544250) 2025-10-24T11:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Hitching a ride on a carrier. Just set up the overnight run with all my player ships flown by the ai copilot" [X Link](https://x.com/t2_steve/status/1981138389589164043) 2025-10-22T23:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#deepestblue Scanning a new sector with the long range radar. My whole squad was destroyed by an enemy minefield just after this. A little too deadly" [X Link](https://x.com/GraftgoldStudio/status/1979514879875916087) 2025-10-18T11:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@t2_steve Steve TurnerSteve Turner posts on X about blue, the new, ready, in the the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence finance fashion brands us election
Social topic influence blue, the new, ready, in the, hex, water, app, build, squad, sector
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @uridiumauthor @ericretro @hewsonjoystick @daredev @ltkojak72 @dizzydevil79 @steam @audionauts @sithwimv @thesplendidfox @herospectrum @crashonlineuk @wizwords @morphington @gnomonparallax @mikecowgill @arganoid @fearmyjargon @lockieglizzy
Top assets mentioned Bytecoin (BCN) Runes Coin (RUNES) Bobo (BOBO)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@audionauts Unless they changed the tune it was my tune and player. I don't know why Steve Crow is credited. John Cumming did the graphics and level data"
X Link 2020-07-27T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Wow forty years ago I asked Andrew to join me to convert my games to the Dragon. At first I had a white table as a desk Andrew had a little brown desk that I think was his Dad's. We had a camping table to stand the printer on"
X Link 2023-09-05T10:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SithWimV @UridiumAuthor I also did an Amstrad cpc version. Hewson had arranged a conversion out of house but it did not work out. When I did a progress visit there was nothing to see. The Amstrad was just on the floor by the tv no desk or anything"
X Link 2023-09-05T18:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Andrew Hewson took this pic for publicity. I loved that Space Invaders jumper"
X Link 2023-09-06T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The good news is the overall game is now working well. Economy progressing sectors found and exploited enemy scouts probing and finding allied sectors. Missions working OK. Just a few issues fixed when missions stopped by enemy or pirate activity"
X Link 2023-09-08T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@UridiumAuthor No I looked at the hex it was all zero except the sign bit . I think it happens when you multiply zero with a neg number say [---]. So now my macro tests for x80000000 after casting to an unsigned long"
X Link 2023-09-23T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheSplendidFox @hero_spectrum @CrashOnlineUK @Wizwords KLP2 was the favourite character that I created. I remember making up the back story over a couple of pints of beer at the local on Friday night thinking of all the previous exploits of the little droid"
X Link 2023-11-19T09:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Morphington No it was was a real hm message to tell me there was a secure message that tells me a statement is not there yet"
X Link 2023-11-28T17:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Tried first instal of Deepest Blue on new laptop. [--] dx extension dlls missing. Tried installing dx redistributable but failed as said dx already installed. Found another redis on ms installed that but still can't find the [--] dlls"
X Link 2024-01-03T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I get the dreaded XAudioCreate failed trying to run Deepest Blue on the new laptop. I hate these issues such a waste of time"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ready for my 70th birthday week. Unofficial birthday today with the family"
X Link 2024-02-03T10:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@GnomonParallax @UridiumAuthor That type in game was written by my Dad. It was a murder mystery. He taught himself Basic found the text parser idea in a book and made up the story"
X Link 2024-04-29T10:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EricRetro @HewsonJoystick That was correct but not sure what happened after Jester went into liquidation"
X Link 2024-05-31T08:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@EricRetro @HewsonJoystick I think the original co liquidated and another has formed with a similar name. This may have happened more than once. Sometimes rights are sold y liquidator to the new co"
X Link 2024-05-31T12:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EricRetro @_dareDev @HewsonJoystick I think untransferred ip owned by a liquidated company goes to the Crown"
X Link 2024-05-31T22:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@HewsonJoystick @_dareDev @EricRetro I do know that the documention from the receiver for the tfr to 21st was vague and unspecific not mentioning individual titles. Whether any contracts survived I don't know. We didn't even have contracts for many titles"
X Link 2024-06-01T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@HewsonJoystick @_dareDev @EricRetro Paradroid90 had an insolvency clause that reverted all rights back to Graftgold which is why that could be sold to Jester"
X Link 2024-06-01T17:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@_dareDev @HewsonJoystick @EricRetro I went to the insolvency meeting for Hewson prepared to make on offer but was delayed and arrived after the meeting .The receiver just kept talking in riddles saying he sold all that could be sold and refused to say if that included our titles just released the same mantra"
X Link 2024-06-01T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Ltkojak72 @UridiumAuthor We used a parallel interface quicker than serial. Just printed out the pc printer cable wired to c64 parallel interface. Just had to make up a ribbon cable and wrote a little loader. At first we sent ascii hex then later doubled speed with raw hex"
X Link 2024-06-05T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Ltkojak72 @UridiumAuthor The nice guys at Avocet wrote us a custom version of the hex exporter to do it in plain hex bytes rather than ascii. That made it really fast with the parallel interface as it loaded a byte per trans cycle"
X Link 2024-06-05T10:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MikeCowgill Yes I've worked on a few accounting systems. You balance every transaction so it is impossible to lose money. That is double checked by a trial balance across all accounts. You can't destroy or invent money only move it from [--] or more account to [--] or more accounts. Simples"
X Link 2024-07-01T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's official [--] years after the start of Graftgold my new company Graftgold Studios Ltd is registered"
X Link 2024-07-27T11:01Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements
"@arganoid Probably Steam Almost ready for submission now I have the company set up. Lots of to dos such as install music but now most work is cosmetic. Been tidying messages today there are so many. Pic of freighter v freighter was laying mines in my sector till I got it"
X Link 2024-08-03T21:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DizzyDevil79 Sound like you had a hooky copy with no manual. I write games that you can play immediately but take time to master. Balancing the magic is the key. The spell types work like the categories like a top trump card game you build up shield energy firepower"
X Link 2024-08-04T21:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DizzyDevil79 The better runes are on the more deadly levels with harder meanies. You combine runes to make the spell types which upgrade you. I used to leave some of the less powerful wizards alive in case I needed to retreat and build up again"
X Link 2024-08-04T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@fearmyjargon @UridiumAuthor Bobo was the only game we did not want a Graftgold logo on. It was a favour for Probe. Yes Jason wrote the Powergen game. The colour of the Power gen screen had to be changed at the end"
X Link 2024-08-21T08:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@UridiumAuthor No. The GDI works in integer xy positions and draws the chars onto my texture page where I tell it. Sometimes it draws out of the size box it returns. J prints before the size box / print after. The font data just doesn't tell me. I have to add extra space"
X Link 2024-10-08T10:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@UridiumAuthor All the fun of .5 amounts comes after that. I have to convert the xy extents to uv coords for later use for the graphic card to convert back into texture positions. That bit is fine but takes rectangles so can't cope if the GDI has overlapped chars without telling me"
X Link 2024-10-08T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Almost finished the manual. Counting down to release"
X Link 2024-11-21T09:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue ran all night but had a few issues today. All fixed. Here is a miner dumping it's asteroids in the scoop at the mining base"
X Link 2024-12-09T21:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cleared all the old Graftgold documents from the loft. Now I need to sort out any Interesting stuff and bin the rest. There are some really epic faxes from the last [--] years. One is over a yard long"
X Link 2025-07-04T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Finished the Deepest Blue credits screen must be nearly finished. Game has not crashed for a week. Revising the manual to include sny tweaks then all set to go"
X Link 2025-07-04T16:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I have just joined BlueSky . https://bsky.app/profile/graftgoldstudios.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/graftgoldstudios.bsky.social"
X Link 2025-07-12T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Surprised that the Steam menu hot key default is shift tab. That's a standard Windows hotkey that is meant to tab to the previous control used through the gui in my game"
X Link 2025-08-29T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I find navigation and updating in steamworks very confusing. Am I just getting old"
X Link 2025-10-09T16:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Time for a little break from testing the new version of Deepest Blue so I can read Developers Den. Thanks Vinny. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue new version almost ready. Here a miner is docking to an iceberg the main source of water for the allies"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"DEEPEST BLUE new version released. Display scaling is fixed. Issues resolved and some HUD displays tweaked. The cruiser was missing its fixed guns. Here it is being tested against a few Seiddab craft. See videos and pics at and give it a wish list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"By now really suspicious so went back to app. The trans was cancelled and my card blocked till I answer the suspicious text. No explanation even when I asked help. Had to text YES and start again. It seems their process invites scams as they look like scammers"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Deepest Blue Oh dear just when I was going to put it an Steam to test. Bit of a water crisis happening the water plant creates it from ice collected by miners. There is plenty of ice so something is stopping processing"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sold the old Graftgold office last month. The rental allowed me to retire early but was increasingly more work and red tape for less return. Just been clobbered with capital gains tax although the real value hadnt really gone up just being taxed for [--] years inflation"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just opened my copy. Been so busy on Deepest Blue I hadnt chance to read it. Feels so good to finally get it into prerelease on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 Calling all #ZXSpectrum Enthusiasts Treat yourself to a copy of the new issue of FREEZE-ZX zine Its full of new & exclusive gaming content for you and your #Speccy. Head over to https://t.co/Cp0GNfskWC and grab a copy. https://t.co/3lplRKpRUC https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 Calling all #ZXSpectrum Enthusiasts Treat yourself to a copy of the new issue of FREEZE-ZX zine"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Never noticed this. Look at the name of the first office carpet I bought"
X Link 2025-12-14T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RIP rhe old Graftgold accounts"
X Link 2025-12-14T18:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue: Apologies an early version was released by mistake I uploaded [--] more versions but did not know they were not live. Build V 1.0.03 screen display uses current display settings Frame rate balanced so. #gaming_news via @steam https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806 https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806"
X Link 2025-12-30T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Working on a music track for Andrew. Trying to view a pdf of manual for Akai MPC. I hate rhe slider on the left side of the of viewer totally useless on a large doc. It appears and triggers accident as I adjust left right to read. Spend most time finding where I was"
X Link 2026-01-14T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The punishment for developers of bad software should be to have to use it until they repent. A slider is of no use if you can't fine adjust. You need non linear control its not hard to implement"
X Link 2026-01-14T13:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If anyone that ever played a pirate version of one of my games visited and made a comment or wishlist it would help it get shown to the massive pool of Steam players. http://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/De http://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/De"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Deepest Blue: The destroyer is my perhaps my favourite ship to fight with. Its fast enough to deal with fighters and has a massive forward firepower. Here a destroyer is approaching its squad position ready for action"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hitching a ride on a carrier. Just set up the overnight run with all my player ships flown by the ai copilot"
X Link 2025-10-22T23:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I can honestly say Deepest Blue is the most challenging piece of software I have ever worked on and I have worked on some crazy difficult stuff. I wanted to push an average laptops to the limits like we did in the [--] bit days"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I've been recording the lead guitar for Andrew's title track.When I press record I lose my place in the music. I use a loop so I can get each section right. It's annoying when I do a perfect take but it has switched the record off. Its meant to go to overdub"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Lockie_Glizzy Deepest Blue has taken me [--] years to develop solo from the ground up including the game engine. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2026-02-17T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tried to buy a kitchen cab online. My credit card authorised via my fingerprint protected phone app. Then I got a phone calls which I ignored thinking it was a scam. DId not say who it was usually a telltale sign. Then an anon text not saying who it was said bank would text"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The auth screen on the web even says we never call you to get you to authorise. Yet I authorised then they called me on home phone and mobile . Why not use the secure msg system on the app if they needed to check"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Feels such a relief to get the new version of Deepest Blue done and dusted. I now need to start testing the remote game across the Internet. I have had it working on my home network with a very dodgy Internet connection on my old laptop. Useful to test error code"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"DEEPEST BLUE new version released. Display scaling is fixed. Issues resolved and some HUD displays tweaked. The cruiser was missing its fixed guns. Here it is being tested against a few Seiddab craft. See videos and pics at and give it a wish list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Deepest Blue new version almost ready. Here a miner is docking to an iceberg the main source of water for the allies"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Time for a little break from testing the new version of Deepest Blue so I can read Developers Den. Thanks Vinny. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Apologies an early version was released by mistake I uploaded [--] more versions but did not know they were not live. Build V 1.0.03 screen display uses current display settings Frame rate balanced so. #gaming_news via @steam https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806 https://steamcommunity.com/games/3998150/announcements/detail/501718945006356806"
X Link 2025-12-30T15:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
". One day my kids barricaded the front door so I couldnt go back to work for my second shift"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Had a day off yesterday. Feels so strange not programming after putting in about [--] hours a day for the last couple of weeks. Just like the old days programming and testing to the early hours to get a release ready. I used to go back to work after dinner"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@GraftgoldStudio Hello I love your game. Can we discuss about your game"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"After ten years of development Deepest Blue is in prerelease. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2025-12-13T12:47Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Beware the Seiddab in the sun The battle for this sector has been raging for ages. both sides decided to claim it and build a base. The Sol Federation got there first and the Seiddab are not happy"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The deepest blue ocr cards have arrived. If you are at the Cradh Live show this weekend come and get a signed card"
X Link 2025-11-12T10:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue. Fun day today testing each ship in the test sector and fine tuning. You can get to the test area from the Dock form where you order ships letting you try them and practice combat against a few enemy ships"
X Link 2025-11-11T22:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Deepest Blue; Good days testing made a few cosmetic changes and minor adjustments. Been testing the largest scenario option. Here is a freighter about to dock"
X Link 2025-11-09T01:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue: Found this cool green nebula in one of the enemy sectors. I am in a scout squad following my squad leader. Here is the link to the Steam store page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Just added a couple of videos to the store replacing the video that inadvertently recorded by Mum telling us about the days when you had a tin bath by the stove rather than the game sound"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Deepest Blue Steam store page is approved. Its coming1 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3998150/Deepest_Blue/beta=0"
X Link 2025-10-30T11:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Whats more definite I plan to add . I will consider adding . I used the 2nd one and failed review as they said I should not make promises. Weird as I consider doing something before I plan to do it"
X Link 2025-10-24T11:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Hitching a ride on a carrier. Just set up the overnight run with all my player ships flown by the ai copilot"
X Link 2025-10-22T23:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#deepestblue Scanning a new sector with the long range radar. My whole squad was destroyed by an enemy minefield just after this. A little too deadly"
X Link 2025-10-18T11:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
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