Sorry for the pun. I had to get this out of my system, and I needed the distraction…

Sherlock also has a crude Teletext adaption.
If you blink, you don’t see them blink…

I actually didn’t know that!

Sweet! Worms VBI has been nominated for the 2024 Meteoriks Awards in the “Outstanding technical achievement” category!


Note: This post is about nerdy Amiga/demoscene stuff. If you came here for the article mentioned in the Beliz Günel interview, maybe this is the article you’re looking for: The importance of stupidity in scientific research But maybe not. :)
Feeling stupid is refreshing.
In unrelated news, it was only yesterday, after nearly a year, that the wordplay in the title Cycle-Op dawned on me, when it was spelled out during the Meteoriks nominees revelation gala.
I mean… the title screen might have been a hint! :)

The other day, I realized the trusty old Amiga file manager “CLImate” is pronounced like, well, climate. To us, as German teenagers in 1989, it has always been “C-L-I mate”, pronounced “tseh el eeh mate”…
I learned this when binge-reading some of the numerous insightful and charming articles at datagubbe.se and ended up at util disks. (Warning: You will get stuck on that site for hours if you love retro and Amiga stuff!)

My new 512-byte Amiga intro won 2nd place in the 512 byte olschool competition at Lovebyte!
It’s not a firework of effects, but very relaxing to watch: Read the strss write-up.
There’s a new TrueType version of the original Amiga Topaz font, but with a lot more glyphs than the original! (In Unicode terms, it only covered the first two blocks of the Basic Multilingual Plane: Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement.)
It’s got proper ăcçěñtş and “quotes”! Even block drawing characters, and much more…! Plus, it’s oldschool, deliberately choosing the older Topaz variant with serifs instead of the newfangled sans-serif typeface from 1990. What’s not to love?
With the right font size, it even renders crisply. Perfect!
Download: topaz-unicode by Screwtape on GitHub
(via Andrew Lemon)
@AndroidArts posted a nice-looking Amiga boot screen, and I wanted to find out if you can actually replace the built-in screen: Modding the Amiga boot hand
Spoiler: It’s possible! :)