A couple of days ago I rather glibly said that the PC versions of the computer game Repton ran fine with WINE on the GNU/Linux operating ...

Recently I had another nice surprise - Michael S. Repton has uploaded a play-through of ROVERS, the Coronation Street theme I created for t...

I've just turned 38, which means I've been a keen Repton fan for 24 years. It seems incredible, but next year is Repton's Silver...

When I posted about my VHS and PAL plug-ins for The GIMP , I forgot to say why I originally wrote them. As I was using the VHS plug-in last...

Having got heartily fed up of Ubuntu GNU/Linux snap, crackling and popping at me at the slightest provocation, I ended up looking for a so...

One of the jewels of free software is the vector graphics editing program Inkscape . Inkscape is based on the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics...

Yesterday was St. Andrew's Day, so I thought I'd listen to some Al Stewart whilst I did something related to Scottish Television - ...

Many moons ago I published a post about my problems in playing DVDs in Ubuntu GNU/Linux . The main problem was that I simply couldn't. ...

This morning, I stumbled upon... http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/profonts/sportowy/ Head -> Desk -> Head -> Desk -> Head -> ...

I've finally finished my Scene.ttf font (which you can find out more about here and here ). I added all the glyphs I think I'll ev...

After producing Version v.0.001 of my Scene font (my version of the Letraset Oxford typeface ) I found all the empty glyph spaces I was le...

Well, time to put the blog to sleep again for a week or two due to a pressing need to actually do some stuff that I can blog about. In the...

I'm a big fan of free software in general and the GNU/Linux operating system in particular. The first distribution or "distro...

You may remember I blogged about bits and bobs I did for the Acorn World Show , which was held on the 13th September 2009 in Huddersfield. ...

There was one typeface that I remembered as a child that kept popping up in the same sort of places. It seemed to have a particular attracti...