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Alexander Grupe

@losso3000.bsky.social

https://heckmeck.de/

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Cartoon of an annoyed Pennywise answering the telephone, asking "What? What is it?"

Cartoon of an annoyed Pennywise answering the telephone, asking "What? What is it?"

calling it now

04.03.2026 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gradient Blaster Amiga OCS/ECS Gradient builder tool

Maybe gradient-blaster.grahambates.com could be of help. The β€œAmiga OCS/ESC interlace” target works with 15 bit, too

01.03.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

STAR-INTRO 🀩

Great job of giving so nostalgic and modern vibes at the same time

01.03.2026 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get my news from a reliable source

27.02.2026 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice mood! It’s giving β€œDarkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me”

demozoo.org/productions/...

20.02.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Amiga memories - Cecconoid
YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories Amiga memories - Cecconoid

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

17.02.2026 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Teletext picture of a cheese with holes, two mice looking at each other, letters spelling out "I CHEESE YOU!"

A Teletext picture of a cheese with holes, two mice looking at each other, letters spelling out "I CHEESE YOU!"

Valentine’s Day, isn’t that cheesy? Well, yes… πŸ­β€οΈπŸ§€

Yle Teksti V-Day Pixel Festival yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

14.02.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poking fun at β€œWhoah, that LLM trained on natural language talks like a person!” is nice and all, but that meme could me more niche and retro! πŸ˜… #sca #amiga

11.02.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The suspense after track 82! πŸ˜… Thank goodness it was the β€œgood” sound!

07.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sat.1 Superball Spiel FrΓΌhstΓΌcksfernsehen 1993
YouTube video by RetroM7 Sat.1 Superball Spiel FrΓΌhstΓΌcksfernsehen 1993

Sunday is Superball time – can’t wait! 🍿🀩

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_S...

#retro #amiga #ohwieschade

06.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - losso3000/coppenheimer: An alternative UI for vAmigaWeb with realtime memory inspection An alternative UI for vAmigaWeb with realtime memory inspection - losso3000/coppenheimer

Yes: github.com/losso3000/co...

The pressure to do an update increases… πŸ˜… vAmigaWeb has advanced quite a bit since the last release, and I would love to cook up new debugging features interacting with the vAmiga core

06.02.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, Martin is on Bluesky, too, so thanks again! This made my day.

Also, obligatory shout-out to vAmigaWeb and vAmiga, the awesome projects all of Coppenheimer is based on. And thanks to Daniel of amiga-news.de for pointing me to this video!

06.02.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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?!

06.02.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Crashing with style

Nice! Or, easy to remember and applicable for darker backgrounds: Just use 0x44 and 0x88, mix until stylish πŸ™‚

heckmeck.de/blog/crashin...

05.02.2026 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snow + VR = πŸ™‚ (why is there no emoji dorky-smiling-face-with-three-teeth?)

heckmeck.de/blog/augment...

31.01.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hell yeah

27.01.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Me and my Amiga 500 with myself on the screen, panting for air in a beautiful mountain landscape

Me and my Amiga 500 with myself on the screen, panting for air in a beautiful mountain landscape

Some late-night workout with myself… Now it works on my own Amiga 500, too!

heckmeck.de/demoscene/ne...

27.01.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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

26.01.2026 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snowflake – Amiga Pointer Archive

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 πŸ€”

12.01.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a ride! πŸ”₯ 🫑

11.01.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Amiga Pointer Archive

Some background and statistics: heckmeck.de/amigastyle/a...

Not mentioned there: I only had to remove three swastikas, and found way less genitals than expected… πŸ˜…

08.01.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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17 Bit Software 4 Phase Four – Amiga Pointer Archive

Check out this mouse pointer!

And the Amiga Pointer Archive, a museum of all Amiga mouse pointers – so far! πŸ™‚

08.01.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Hand holding a first-gen iPhone SE with a cracked screen, showing a pixel editor of kinds

Hand holding a first-gen iPhone SE with a cracked screen, showing a pixel editor of kinds

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… πŸ˜…)

05.01.2026 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Logiker's Christmas Challenge VCCC 2025 - The Presentation
YouTube video by Logiker Logiker's Christmas Challenge VCCC 2025 - The Presentation

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

02.01.2026 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In true Vintage Christmas spirit: git commit -m "2 bytes saved, fuck yeah" πŸ€“

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!

24.12.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A Teletext picture of Santa Claus alluding to the classic "I want YOU for U.S. army" recruitment poster. Santa is smiling and the text reads "Santa wants YOU", and in smaller print "to have lovely holidays"

A Teletext picture of Santa Claus alluding to the classic "I want YOU for U.S. army" recruitment poster. Santa is smiling and the text reads "Santa wants YOU", and in smaller print "to have lovely holidays"

It’s the season… to tune in on Finland’s Yle Teksti-TV! :)

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

23.12.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prototypin’ for Christmas πŸ€”

#vccc2025

13.12.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
A screenshot of a StackOverflow page "Javascript - I created a blob from a string, how do I get the String back out?" with the language tags of the code snippets in the answers highlighted: go, scss, delphi, vbnet, javascript, csharp.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23024460/javascript-i-created-a-blob-from-a-string-how-do-i-get-the-string-back-out

A screenshot of a StackOverflow page "Javascript - I created a blob from a string, how do I get the String back out?" with the language tags of the code snippets in the answers highlighted: go, scss, delphi, vbnet, javascript, csharp. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23024460/javascript-i-created-a-blob-from-a-string-how-do-i-get-the-string-back-out

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! πŸ€“

04.12.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.12.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

01.12.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0