Cool stuff on the webz, recent and olde.
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- WarGames Title Fonts
A nice pixel reverse engineering job of reconstructing the movie’s title and credits font. There’s an adaption of the terminal font as well. Good thing a similar font already existed when I made a whimsical WarGames-themed GIF animation for Revision 2024. :) - Learning From the Amiga API/ABI
I’ve been thinking about doing a “Why Amiga is cool” post one day, focusing on the non-obvious features and ideas that made the platform great. This article (along with its preceding “rant”) resonates with that idea: Praising Amiga not for its games or multimedia capabilities, but for its elegant library handling and its powerful microkernel.
Beware: That website uses <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#5050FF">, which is a bit too retro even for my taste… :) - melon in the wild
That made me smile: A graffiti sporting the original oldschool melon logo with the dot. While you’re at it, also check out BraxtonDK’s Bluesky profile for a nice compilation of new and classic pixel art masterpieces. - Dead Ahead by FLEX & Ephidrena feat. Skarv
A most welcome reminder to sit down with my beefed-up Amiga 1200 some more – by watching this incredible demo as a start! I intentionally squinted when skimming over the YouTube recording, not to spoil the experience of watching it on real hardware with a good old cathode ray tube. - The Meaning of Icons
An entertaining reflection on icons, the metaphors they embody, and the questionable trend towards stylized, cryptic monochrome pictures. Apropos cryptic: I especially enjoyed the old fill tool icon in DeluxePaint being mentioned because I, too, never read it as a paint bucket being emptied for many years. The weird mouse pointer didn’t help, either:
