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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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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
oh my god.
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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!
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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
bsky cropped the screenshot weirdly. It’s nonsense w/o the caption!
Same picture as above with a caption: Feynman was right - electricity is NOT inside wires
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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 · 04/05/2026
Hah! I like this category of “soon”! 😅
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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
Me holding a pink cardboard pig
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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 · 30/03/2026
Hehe… I only knew this version, but I think I like the Dude better 🙂
"I'm a PC, I'm a Mac, Amigaaaaaaa!" meme, with an scrawny old heavy metal dude as the Amiga guy
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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 · 12/03/2026
Ahehe! 😍 (And also, aaah: there’s no dot after “1.3” 🤓 if I may SCNR so…)
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Pumpin’! 🔥
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
calling it now
Cartoon of an annoyed Pennywise answering the telephone, asking "What? What is it?"
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Maybe gradient-blaster.grahambates.com could be of help. The “Amiga OCS/ESC interlace” target works with 15 bit, too
gradient-blaster.grahambates.com
Gradient Blaster
Amiga OCS/ECS Gradient builder tool
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
STAR-INTRO 🤩 Great job of giving so nostalgic and modern vibes at the same time
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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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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Nice mood! It’s giving “Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me” demozoo.org/productions/...
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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 · 07/02/2026
The suspense after track 82! 😅 Thank goodness it was the “good” sound!
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Sunday is Superball time – can’t wait! 🍿🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_S... #retro #amiga #ohwieschade
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Sat.1 Superball Spiel Frühstücksfernsehen 1993
YouTube video by RetroM7
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Yes: github.com/losso3000/co... The pressure to do an update increases… 😅 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
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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
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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!
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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 · 05/02/2026
Nice! Or, easy to remember and applicable for darker backgrounds: Just use 0x44 and 0x88, mix until stylish 🙂 heckmeck.de/blog/crashin...
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Crashing with style
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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
hell yeah
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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 · 11/01/2026
What a ride! 🔥 🫡
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Alexander Grupe @losso3000.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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… 😅
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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! 🙂
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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 · 13/12/2025
Prototypin’ for Christmas 🤔 #vccc2025
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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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