December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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! 🤓
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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! 🤓
Ooooh! There it is! Twinkle, twinkle, little… retro sizecoding Christmas star! :)
Announcment of the topic for the Christmas Challenge 2025. Are you ready, for the new challenge? 1. December 2025, 19:00 CET. youtu.be/OBVdrbAlULw #sizecoding #vintage #retro #vccc2024 #BASIC #assembler #mos6502 #z80 #advent #apl #MerryChristmas
Logiker's Christmas Challenge VCCC 2025 [Announcement]
YouTube video by Logiker
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ooooh! There it is! Twinkle, twinkle, little… retro sizecoding Christmas star! :)
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...
heckmeck.de/blog/the-imp...
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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...
heckmeck.de/blog/the-imp...
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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.
Reposted by Alexander Grupe
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
Deadline is shortly before the final week in November.
#ceefax #PixelArt #1bit #VideoText #Teletext
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
Deadline is shortly before the final week in November.
#ceefax #PixelArt #1bit #VideoText #Teletext
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)
(*all = 70k disks so far, 27k custom preferences, 3k distinct pointer shapes and colors)
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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)
(*all = 70k disks so far, 27k custom preferences, 3k distinct pointer shapes and colors)
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
heckmeck.de/demoscene/ki... #Teletext #Amiga
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
heckmeck.de/demoscene/ki... #Teletext #Amiga
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… 🧐
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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… 🧐
Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nw...
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nw...
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.”
“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.”
September 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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.”
“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.”
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.
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.
Age verification check:
Dialed into Tristate Online, which didnt have a native telnet client, to gopher for “tools surfing net” to get an open telnet to a box where i could fire up TinyFugue to MUSH.
Dialed into Tristate Online, which didnt have a native telnet client, to gopher for “tools surfing net” to get an open telnet to a box where i could fire up TinyFugue to MUSH.
age verification check:
you were on irc with friends in d.c. and nyc while it was happening, before the second tower, when they thought it was a light plane
you were on irc with friends in d.c. and nyc while it was happening, before the second tower, when they thought it was a light plane
September 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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.
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.
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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.
September 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)
DJ HUNDEFRIEDHOF & Fritzi Ernst - Tiere gucken fahrn
YouTube video by DJ HUNDEFRIEDHOF
www.youtube.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Nations are a social construct”
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Nations are a social construct”
A new personal record in the effort per silliness ratio, in 512 bytes. Don’t know if it’s above or below 1.0 though – it’s *really* silly and niche. 😅
Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker!
heckmeck.de/demoscene/te...
#amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum
Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker!
heckmeck.de/demoscene/te...
#amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum
July 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A new personal record in the effort per silliness ratio, in 512 bytes. Don’t know if it’s above or below 1.0 though – it’s *really* silly and niche. 😅
Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker!
heckmeck.de/demoscene/te...
#amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum
Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker!
heckmeck.de/demoscene/te...
#amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen!
www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen!
www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...
Ran out of excuses not to write that little sizecoding tool I always wanted to write. Great fun and gains – or rather, losses! -20 bytes so far…
(It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.)
#amiga #sizecoding
(It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.)
#amiga #sizecoding
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Ran out of excuses not to write that little sizecoding tool I always wanted to write. Great fun and gains – or rather, losses! -20 bytes so far…
(It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.)
#amiga #sizecoding
(It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.)
#amiga #sizecoding
Me:
Nah, I’m not much of a gamer.
Also me:
Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV?
MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS
Nah, I’m not much of a gamer.
Also me:
Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV?
MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Me:
Nah, I’m not much of a gamer.
Also me:
Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV?
MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS
Nah, I’m not much of a gamer.
Also me:
Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV?
MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS