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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Time for a pointless nitpick on emergency exit signs! heckmeck.de/blog/nerdy-n...

A hand-drawn version of the emergency exit sign ISO 7010 - E001, "human figure moving (to the left) through doorway". With a butt.

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canmom @canmom.art · 21/08/2026

phone recording of the @evoke.eu drone compo, featuring Swizzle from Shaderland :> my entry runs from 3:50 to 6:00 (starting with the trans flag of course ;p) look out for the higher quality official recording later! ^^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EV...

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Evoke 2026 Drone Light Show Compo

YouTube video by canmom

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Even if it has gone downhill for a while now, still a bit sad to see Reddit become completely unusable. There’s gold in so many old posts! How long before old.reddit.com is gone for good?

Cookie banner and modal login dialog on the Reddit website, in German: "Log in to use Old Reddit" and "To ensure the safety of Reddit, you must have an account to access Reddit"

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Andy Davidson @rockandrollmachine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Out now! Download for free at worm.net Thanks to @stinkyox.bsky.social for letting us do a Llamasoft level. It’s been an honour, and my favourite level in the game!

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AI subordination that I can get behind! Prompt: Make me look twenty years younger and likeable, but not so much as to highlight what a pathetic, vain mortal hides beneath my human flesh AI: Hehe… I mean: Sure thing, boss, here you go!

welt.de

In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT

Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

256 bytes is enough for everyone? Naww. But it might be enough to get a stupid idea out of your system. 🙂 heckmeck.de/demoscene/fi... #amiga #demoscene

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

CATALOG.EXE by Hackers is the perfect demo to help me test new Coppenheimer visualization ideas. And motivating, cause it's so awesome! www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... coppenheimer.heckmeck.de (old version, planning a public beta of the rewrite)

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ah, thanks AI! So the electrons aren’t actually moving from one lightbulb socket to the other

A portrait of Richard Feynman with a circuit diagram in the backgound including a lightbulb picture with sockets on the top and bottom

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Richard Dawkins could have had his “Claudia” epiphany in 1987 already, just with a gal called “Amiga” instead…

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Found a pouët pig in the attic. A sign to release something again, soon! #demoscene #pouet

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Cookin’ up Coppenheimer ideas: Displaying all memory words as RGB values adds a new layer of interesting! 🙂 Lookup tables suddenly become more observable, too

Screenshot of the Coppenheimer webapp, with a large emulated Amiga screen and colorful memory contents, including a full-color image of Paradroid's son (IIRC)

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What a weird coincidence heckmeck.de/blog/cat-con...

Two pictures. Top: Me holding a stuffed cat toy, a piece of cheese with a mouse looking out of a hole. Bottom: A Teletext picture of two mice looking at each other through holes in a cheese, captioned "I cheese you", with read hearts floating above

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The new iridescent window films remind me: I should watch “Annihilation” again…

Basement windows with white curtains. The glass and the curtains are covered in rainbow colors

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thirty years later I’m convinced: Flicker fixers are great! heckmeck.de/blog/flicker... #amiga #retro #rustyscrewdriver

An Amiga 500 with two displays connected, running ProTracker. Left: Samsung flat TV, right: heavily yellowed, bulky CRT monitor

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I get my news from a reliable source

An Amiga 500 running the AWEB browser. In the browser, http://amiga-news.de/en/ is loaded

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Martin Piper @martinpiper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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

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Amiga memories - Cecconoid

YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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?!

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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

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Revision Demoparty @revision-party.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

2026.revision-party.net

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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 🤔

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Snowflake – Amiga Pointer Archive

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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

heckmeck.de

17 Bit Software 4 Phase Four – Amiga Pointer Archive

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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… 😅)

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

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logiker.bsky.social @logiker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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

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Logiker's Christmas Challenge VCCC 2025 - The Presentation

YouTube video by Logiker

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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!

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❄️ Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025 ❄️ - Logiker

❄️ Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025 ❄️. Vintage Computing - Textart - Compos

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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

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"

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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! 🤓

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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...

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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)

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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.”

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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.

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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/

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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

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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Nations are a social construct”

Preisschild "Deutsche Kartoffeln" (German potatoes), "Ursprung: Frankreich" (origin: France)

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