heckmeck!

I was attending a little tech conference this week (organized by my employer), and I did a presentation about the Amiga Pointer Archive.

After some legalese back-and-forth among copyright holders, licensers, and licensees that makes you think there’s a multi-billion dollar brand involved (I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds like a good thing, I guess, agreements and all?)

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!

Over on *cough* TikTok, mostly-retro influencer MLGonzo (he has a COBOL beard, but also talks about contemporary geek stuff) states:

Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.

“Why are you upset, honey?”

Four years ago, I was toying around with Teletext rendering prototypes for an Amiga demo.

A 256 byte adaption of an infamous screen saver for ROMA.EXE 2026.

A 256 byte intro for Amiga, made for ROMA.EXE 2026.

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.

What is that?

Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.

A nice slogan for a t-shirt!

Months ago, I spotted a cool camera at the local Ramsch-, erm, “antique store”.

I was staying at a… mature hotel this week.

The time has come.

While testing my Coppenheimer update (still in progress), I loaded up ProTracker for testing.

Procrastination, blessed be your name!

The Old Web™ is awesome: lovely self-made home pages, doing your own hosting, quirky designs, oldschool forums, curated hyperlinks – all that stuff.

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