A groundbreaking game turns 30!
For its 30th anniversary, a very special and universally loved game that brought hours of joy to so many people is celebrating the occasion with a special expansion pack!
heckmeck!
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My favorite HTTP response code
Over on *cough* TikTok, mostly-retro influencer MLGonzo (he has a COBOL beard, but also talks about contemporary geek stuff) states :
What’s Cool? XI
Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old. What’s Cool? · II · III · IV · V · VI · VII · VIII · IX · X
Oh, noes! resp. Ouchie!
“Why are you upset, honey?” “It’s just a mug…” :(
4 years of 420
Four years ago, I was toying around with Teletext rendering prototypes for an Amiga demo. Those prototypes quickly turned into a demo in its own right, and I put aside the original goal of doing this on the Amiga.
An hommage to The Office in 256 bytes
A 256 byte adaption of an infamous screen saver for ROMA.EXE 2026.
Fireworks!
A 256 byte intro for Amiga, made for ROMA.EXE 2026. A little fun production that even made it to the 3rd place of the compo ! Well, why not, it’s pretty thrilling after all:
1988 called: SetRGB4 has a strange bug
Let’s dig into ancient system software and file an entry for the 2026 “Obsolete operating systems bug bounty” with a report that would have been pointless even back then.
A special rune
What is that? A person hanging from a rope? A rune for “WTF”?
What’s Cool? X
Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old. What’s Cool? · II · III · IV · V · VI · VII · VIII · IX
I scanned a thousand disks and all I got was four pointers
A nice slogan for a t-shirt! Bit long, maybe…
Oh boy, a new camera!
Months ago, I spotted a cool camera at the local Ramsch-, erm, “antique store”. Last week, I finally gave in and bought it – a nice little Game Boy Camera!
This aged well
I was staying at a… mature hotel this week. Look at those comfy stairs! Don’t you want to take a nap on them right there and now?
Cat content
The time has come. Time for cat content on my website, that is – just to share the joy and a little surprise.
Not so fast, ProTracker!
While testing my Coppenheimer update (still in progress), I loaded up ProTracker for testing. I started wondering how it paints the pattern data at the bottom of the screen (the song “contents”). Is it double-buffered? How fast can it redraw everything? (I know from experience that plotting little 8×8 characters with the CPU can get really slow – heck, it’s even slow in the browser without…
Flicker-free retro bliss
Procrastination, blessed be your name! Or rather, the side quests you bring: Instead of cleaning up my office, I suddenly had the urge to try a little hardware modification. To my surprise, I didn’t break anything, and was rewarded with a flicker-free, phosphor-bright display option for my Amiga 500.
Let’s wander!
The Old Web™ is awesome: lovely self-made home pages, doing your own hosting, quirky designs, oldschool forums, curated hyperlinks – all that stuff. I feel like I’m seeing more and more people turn (return?) to the golden old ways… Do we live in a renaissance of the Old Web™? I wish!
More Amiga profiling and debugging!
While I’m still in the process of a Coppenheimer update (as in: gathering motivation), I’ve learned of a new profiling/debugging suite: ENGINE9000
Where’s my bacon?
Specifically: Where’s my Bacon number ?
A pressing and depressing mouse pointer
As I was browsing Tonsky’s blog for yesterday’s post, I noticed the pretty mouse pointers. Are those new? Better yet: When you click, they change their shapes! That’s something I’ve only seen in games so far. How fun!