Alexander Grupe
losso3000.bsky.social
Alexander Grupe
@losso3000.bsky.social
Yes, it’s that time of the year again… 😊

heckmeck.de/demoscene/ge...
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shout-out to dipswitch on that occasion 🫡

asciiarena.se/release/bm-k...
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Now that’s a great way to present recipes in an ultra-compact form. Praised be the power of (Teletext) limitations!

www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/Detail...
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hah, nice! There are some more variations (based on file names)… 🤓
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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)
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Reference (320×200, 30 colors) and Teletext hommage (78×69, 5 colors).
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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… 🧐
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Was the prompt “chunky” or “chonker”, by the way? Maybe I misheard… 😉

#WeeklyTeletextArt
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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...
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So, the iPhone has genlock support now? Pfft… 1985 called!

#amiga #appleevent
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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.
September 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Love me some custom Amiga pointers!

heckmeck.de/blog/prototy... #amiga
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
“Nations are a social construct”
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Awesome! Had to check: That’s the X-Copy sound in there, right? 😉
August 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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
July 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Lovely: Teletext-based pricing display at Nordlicht 📺❤️

nordlicht.demoparty.info
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen!

www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I’m on sick leave, but the doctor recommended I should occupy myself with pleasant, calming things, so I tricked myself into learning about ZX0 compression. (Side quest → size quest… 😉)

After a short detour, I already found a way to save *2 bits* on average! 😅
July 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Tech-Bro-Firmen erobern die Welt bzw. Einkaufszettel
June 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM