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Alexander Grupe
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Yes, it’s that time of the year again… 😊

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

asciiarena.se/release/bm-k...
A screenshot of https://asciiarena.se/release/bm-klock.txt with some ASCII art logos from that colly
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
losso3000.bsky.social
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.
A console running "unzip -l" listing the contents of a ZIP file and an ASCII art banner for scene.org above the zip file entry list
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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...
A German Teletext page from 1984 with a pork roast recipe. Three sentences of cooking instructions with the ingredients in the sentences collected on the left column in a different color.
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
losso3000.bsky.social
Hah, nice! There are some more variations (based on file names)… 🤓
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
losso3000.bsky.social
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)
A grid of hundreds of 16×16 pixel mouse cursors, hand-like shapes are highlighted
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Reference (320×200, 30 colors) and Teletext hommage (78×69, 5 colors).
"King Tut" by Avril Harrison, used as a Amiga demo picture and cover art for DeluxePaint for many years A Teletext adaption in bright, chunky pixels
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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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
losso3000.bsky.social
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… 🧐
The "Lorraine" Amiga prototype on a table, with Dale Luck in the background Close-up of the Lorraine breadboards with intricate wiring, some are labeled "Agnus 1", "Agnus 6", "Agnus 8" A hand-written note on top of the breadboards: Notez-bien - you should never, ever, ever, ever touch any part of this hardware capriciously, incautiously or inattentively. Please ground yourself, and wash your hands, and be polite. Thanks. Ground yourself
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution
A photo taken while riding a bike towards a little greenhouse thing next to the road
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Was the prompt “chunky” or “chonker”, by the way? Maybe I misheard… 😉

#WeeklyTeletextArt
A Teletext rendition of a cartoonish chunky white cat licking its lips. Caption below: OH LAWD, HE COMIN'
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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...
A 40*16 pixel array rendered as illuminated empty bottles in crates (bottom-facing)
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
losso3000.bsky.social
So, the iPhone has genlock support now? Pfft… 1985 called!

#amiga #appleevent
A split image with a screenshot of a slide with the latest iPhone Pro features above (Dolby Vision, 4k120, ProRes Log, ACES, ProResRAW, Genlock) and a photo of an Amiga 2000 with a camera attached below, showing the camera image in the background of DeluxePaint
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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.
Screenshot of the Google search console for heckmeck.de, reporting a spike of search requests and page impressions for https://heckmeck.de/demoscene/worms-vbi/
September 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Love me some custom Amiga pointers!

heckmeck.de/blog/prototy... #amiga
A 6*6 array of Amiga pointers with little AmigaDOS windows, all in different styles and colors: arrows, logos, hands, a bottle, an emerald, etc.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)
A bar graphs with two bars of equal height: "Seeing Sam Altman" labelled with 30.8, "Seeing those graphs" labelled with 69.1
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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“Nations are a social construct”
Preisschild "Deutsche Kartoffeln" (German potatoes), "Ursprung: Frankreich" (origin: France)
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Awesome! Had to check: That’s the X-Copy sound in there, right? 😉
Spectogram of this track and a recording of X-Copy's "copying finished" sound
August 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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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
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Lovely: Teletext-based pricing display at Nordlicht 📺❤️

nordlicht.demoparty.info
An old CRT TV showing a table of beverage prices via Teletext
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen!

www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
Foto von Broschüren des Bundesamts für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, in großer Schrift auf dem Titel: "Ka tas tro phen"
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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! 😅
A tool window with text areas, showing colored hex dumps and and a disassembly output; now there's a hex dump of the compressed data as well, highlighting literal (uncompressed) bytes
July 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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
A tool window with text areas, showing a hex dump of a file, and lists of bytes, words, opcodes, and words interpreted as 12-bit RGB, all sorted by their frequency
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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
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Tech-Bro-Firmen erobern die Welt bzw. Einkaufszettel
Abfotografierter Einkaufszettel: "Wurst, Brot, Käse, Knabbersachen, Fleischwurst" etc. Hervorgehoben: "Uberbacken"
June 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM