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I look at #Amiga "Cecconoid" published in 2024 by Thalamus. It uses a dual playfield mode, with CPU updating particles, the blitter modifies particle code, and hardware sprite multiplex with the copper. youtu.be/7OVBSs_Rl60

Valentine’s Day, isn’t that cheesy? Well, yes… 🐭❤️🧀 Yle Teksti V-Day Pixel Festival yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

Poking fun at “Whoah, that LLM trained on natural language talks like a person!” is nice and all, but that meme could me more niche and retro! 😅 #sca #amiga

Sunday is Superball time – can’t wait! 🍿🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_S... #retro #amiga #ohwieschade

Awesome: Coppenheimer being used in Martin Piper’s latest behind-the-scene tech videos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1AP... Weird: I was checking where my comment went in a anonymous browser tab (it’s gone), and auto-translated audio is the default now on YouTube?!

Snow + VR = 🙂 (why is there no emoji dorky-smiling-face-with-three-teeth?) heckmeck.de/blog/augment...

Some late-night workout with myself… Now it works on my own Amiga 500, too! heckmeck.de/demoscene/ne...

Sign-up and first information are now live! Save the date and start working on your productions! 2026.revision-party.net

Why are there so few snow flakes in the mouse pointer archive? You can draw one yourself with the editor (hint hint), but I have a hunch that there are many disks I still need to dig out… Time to take a closer look at .lha, .adz, and .rar files 🤔

Check out this mouse pointer! And the Amiga Pointer Archive, a museum of all Amiga mouse pointers – so far! 🙂

The new project is nearly ready, but it doesn’t scale down nicely on the 1st gen iPhone SE. 😢 That’s a no-go. That device is barely ten years old! (Which is, by chance, the very thing sane people would say to dismiss the issue… 😅)

Results of the Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025. Includes all almost 200 size-coding entries plus 18 wild entries. Just in case you missed it! YouTube: youtu.be/9aazdLrXah8 #sizecoding #vintage #retro #vccc2025 #BASIC #assembler #6502 #z80 #advent #apl #MerryChristmas

In true Vintage Christmas spirit: git commit -m "2 bytes saved, fuck yeah" 🤓 Looking forward to all the results on Sunday (see logiker.com/Vintage-Comp...) – much love and best wishes to @logiker.bsky.social for all the work!

It’s the season… to tune in on Finland’s Yle Teksti-TV! :) yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

Prototypin’ for Christmas 🤔 #vccc2025

Handling strings and blobs in the browser is hard – you don’t only need JavaScript, but also *checks notes* Go, SCSS, C#, VBnet, and… Delphi! 🤓

Ooooh! There it is! Twinkle, twinkle, little… retro sizecoding Christmas star! :)

Amiga mouse pointers are weird. Did you know that you can set the hot spot way outside of the actual cursor? heckmeck.de/blog/the-imp...

Yes, it’s that time of the year again… 😊 heckmeck.de/demoscene/ge...

Heh, I totally forgot that ZIP files can have banners. Luckily my console is using Amiga Topaz already, so I had the perfect little retro surprise there.

Still time to make us some festive #TeletextArt, if you want to be featured on Finnish television. 😎 Deadline is shortly before the final week in November. #ceefax #PixelArt #1bit #VideoText #Teletext

Working on an archive of all (*) Amiga mouse pointers. Back in the day, hand cursors were really popular! (*all = 70k disks so far, 27k custom preferences, 3k distinct pointer shapes and colors)

Teletext timelapse: King Tut XL, celebrating 40 (XL) years of the Amiga with an iconic showcase picture by pixel pioneer Avril Harrison. Made for Flashparty 2025. heckmeck.de/demoscene/ki... #Teletext #Amiga

Seeing the actual, physical Amiga prototype board at #Amiga40 sure was nice! If you squint hard, you can make out shadows of the Boing demo running in the wirings… 🧐

Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution

Cooking up a lil’ Mate wall simulator to distract myself from other ambitious ideas for @deadline-berlin.bsky.social this weekend or just because I love writing tools? 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nw...

I wish the nerds would have put a kill switch into all their inventions. “Oh, so you hate science and want to use the internet to destroy humanity? Not with our tech! You’re free to build a bible-based smartphone for yor christian-nationalist cult, though.”

Age verification check: Learned HTML on the Commodore Amiga by looking at page sources, with a dial-up connection that went through a special Datex-J (ex-Bildschirmtext) page that acted as an internet gateway. But that was already the modern days, with a 68030 CPU at 50 MHz and 6 MB of RAM.

So, the iPhone has genlock support now? Pfft… 1985 called! #amiga #appleevent

I really miss HTTP referers… While I can understand the security and privacy reasons why the major browsers killed them off, I would really like to know, for example, where the recent spike of interest in heckmeck.de/demoscene/wo... came from in the US.

Love me some custom Amiga pointers! heckmeck.de/blog/prototy... #amiga

My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)

The collaboration I didn’t know I needed 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJW_...

“Nations are a social construct”

A new personal record in the effort per silliness ratio, in 512 bytes. Don’t know if it’s above or below 1.0 though – it’s *really* silly and niche. 😅 Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker! heckmeck.de/demoscene/te... #amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum

Lovely: Teletext-based pricing display at Nordlicht 📺❤️ nordlicht.demoparty.info

Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen! www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...

Ran out of excuses not to write that little sizecoding tool I always wanted to write. Great fun and gains – or rather, losses! -20 bytes so far… (It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.) #amiga #sizecoding

Me: Nah, I’m not much of a gamer. Also me: Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV? MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS

Tech-Bro-Firmen erobern die Welt bzw. Einkaufszettel

Wikipedia einerseits (unbeholfen wie ein Grundschulaufsatz) und andererseits: auch unbeholfen, aber mit Absicht? Kann mir vorstellen, dass Wilhelm Genazino dieses hübsche Biographiefragment (zweites Bild) gefallen würde.

Preparing the final touches for my techcamp.hamburg session at the Hamburg office. And by final touches, I mean all the touches 😅

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

@losso3000.bsky.social has made a blog post mentioning the end part of our recent demo heckmeck.de/blog/aw-shif...

Was dreaming that the Vatican’s infrastructure would stop working after a prolongued period without a pope. The pope helicopter wouldn’t take off without a passenger, and eventually Indiana-Jones-like ancient contraptions would be triggered by the empty throne:

@revision-party.bsky.social’s deadlines are approaching ruthlessly. Should I aim for a “cool” release or go full-dorky? I think I am partial to one of the alternatives already…

Oh, an interesting new article on developers.chrome.com. I wonder what it says? DAS ELEMENT. That’s the whole page. 😂

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