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Life Changing Magazines 2013 – The year of travelling. 2012 – The launch of GameMaker: Studio 2011 – When it all starts to change. 2010 – A fresh start….
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2013 – The year of travelling.

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Life Changing Magazines

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

Number 1# Number 1 – WORMS I guess every programmer has a genesis moment. One where everything starts to make sense and it’s the true beginning of their love of…

History YoYoGames

2013 – The year of travelling.

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

2013 kicked off with a trip to CES where we had been invited to take part in MIPS presence at the show. Sandy, knowing my utter love of all things…

History YoYoGames

2012 – The launch of GameMaker: Studio

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

At the end of 2011, we set to work making a new product, GameMaker: Studio, with the intent that we could show it off at GDC in San Francisco in…

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2011 – When it all starts to change.

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

Early in the new year we also released Mr Karoshi, which went on to win Android game of the year at a Pocket Gamer event, and as Russell finished off…

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2010 – A fresh start….

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

So here we are, the start of a new job, a new office and everyone raring to go. With only 4 of us there initially, it felt like a large…

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2009 – A long road ahead….

Jun 28, 2026 mikedailly

Coming to the end of another year at YoYo Games, and it’s hard not to reflect on how we’re doing, and how far we’ve come in the short time I’ve been…

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Z8410 DMA chip for the ZX Spectrum Next

Jun 11, 2026 mikedailly

So the ZX Spectrum Next team have added a Z80 DMA chip, the Z8410  chip to be more precise. This was popular add on in Europe ( more info here: http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm ), and has some very cool…

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Z80 Shifts

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Z80 assembler shift operations diagram

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GameMaker – Improving the runner

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I wrote this back in January 2014 on my blog, so just moving it here to keep everything together. So, I thought it might be fun to look back at…

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