François Galea
zerkman.pouet.chapril.org.ap.brid.gy
François Galea
@zerkman.pouet.chapril.org.ap.brid.gy
Hobby account. Demoscene, free software, retro computing.

I'm the author of zeST, a free/open source Atari ST clone for cheap FPGA development boards.

[bridged from https://pouet.chapril.org/@zerkman on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Reposted by François Galea
Quand éclatera la bulle IA…

Et de la saturation technologique

https://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.html

lire sur #gemini #geminiprotocol : gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.gmi
Quand éclatera la bulle IA…
Quand éclatera la bulle IA… par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Reposted by François Galea
Le Ulule de DEMO a dépassé les 105 000 €, tous les backers recevront donc une copie des jeux développés pour le film !

Plus que 5 jours !

Par Alex Pilot et Overscan Committee

https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot
November 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by François Galea
Whaou, la scène démo sur le canal YouTube du Ministère de la Culture française!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_skK...
Vivre le patrimoine culturel immatériel – La démoscène
YouTube video by Ministère de la Culture
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by François Galea
Le crowdfunding du nouveau projet d'Alex Pilot est lancé !

= DEMO - Un film double face / double densité par Alex Pilot =

https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot/

#demoscene
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
September 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Reposted by François Galea
This video shows a game engine some might recognize, running on an unmodified* Atari Falcon from 1992.

Doug Little, a.k.a dml, is the true G.O.A.T.

*) It has 14MB RAM, which is the maximum you could upgrade to at the time and fully originally supported, as well as an FPU in the FPU-socket […]
Original post on swecyb.com
swecyb.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Yesterday I finished the Galactic Panic game for #atarist ! The overall quality is really good. It is clear @I_am_I put a lot of passion in it, with particular attention to detail and a desire to ensure we have a good time playing.

I had a lot of fun playing the French version :) The dialogues […]
Original post on pouet.chapril.org
pouet.chapril.org
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New release for Shifter Inside, your screen resolution expander for the #atarist.

It mainly fixes problems and bugs from the previous version.

https://zerkman.sector1.fr/index.php?post/2025/08/30/Shifter-Inside-v1.1

#atari #retrocomputing
Shifter Inside v1.1 - My stuff
Here is an update to my Shifter Inside project, fixing various issues in the previous version. The changes are: Removed the horizontal extension on STE medium resolution, because
zerkman.sector1.fr
August 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
640x276 pixel resolution on a plain #atarist.
672x276 on a STe.
All that using software tricks ; no hardware mod required.

Here is Shifter Inside! Enjoy!

https://zerkman.sector1.fr/index.php?post/2025/08/11/Shifter-Inside-v1.0

#atari #retrocomputing
Shifter Inside v1.0 - My stuff
I am releasing Shifter Inside, a program for the Atari ST/STe which uses classical demoscene-style top and bottom border removal techniques to extend the screen size of the
zerkman.sector1.fr
August 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
August 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I managed to get Wi-Fi running on the #zest 's #fpga board, thanks to a USB Wi-Fi dongle. Now let’s write some UI setup code and find useful stuff to do with it!

#atari #atarist #retrocomputing
August 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I'm stuck in Galactic Panic.
August 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I have improved the hard disk “firmware code” in #zest, so now it supports most standard ACSI/SCSI commands and error codes.

Now partitioning tools work, so you can configure new drives from the running Atari without the need of an emulator on PC.

zeST is also ready to support multiple drives […]
Original post on pouet.chapril.org
pouet.chapril.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by François Galea
You had me at "Prioritizes non-commercial content"

The Marginalia search engine. Not a front end for other indexes but has its own crawler.

https://marginalia-search.com/
Making sure you're not a bot!
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
marginalia-search.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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"35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs."

Ed Zitron, The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
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www.wheresyoured.at
July 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by François Galea
Have you ever come up with (according to you) such a clever name for a project that you feel the need to actually go through with the idea just because of it?

There's no performant open source hard disk driver for the retro Atari ST platform. We have the absolutely awesome HD Driver from Uwe […]
Original post on swecyb.com
swecyb.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by François Galea
The #zest Atari ST FPGA implementation is absolutely awesome. Running it on a MicroPhase Z7-Lite from Aliexpress and it's just perfect. Additionally, I have a #deskhop built up that I connected it to which means I now have an Atari ST connected to one of my main workstation monitors that uses […]
Original post on swecyb.com
swecyb.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by François Galea
I'm back from Sommarhack... had to finish the demo on the party place so it's kind of glitchy and not quite what I had in mind originally, but heck, at least i made the deadline!

And yes, some people will hate it, I'm used to that 😅

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhf...
"VibeCoding" - A "mix resolution" Atari STe entry for Sommarhack 2025
YouTube video by Dbug's stuff
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
July 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
July 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I moved all my public Git repos from #github to #codeberg.
This was my last dependency to enshittified AI-powered/#GAFAM services.

#enshittification
June 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM