Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.
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• The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
  A fascinating interview with a former employee of Cachet, the company behind the legendary disk copy utility. Fascinating not only because of X-Copy’s background story (I never made the connection that the original coders also created Pinball Wizard, which I loved at the time), but also the… unorthodox business practices around it (hiring an underage kid from the spot as the offical product support contact, hehe). Great read!
• Old Blue Workbench
  A power-user tool suite that is right up my alley: Replacing the original 1.3 Workbench environment with advanced file navigation, a dock, improved menus, and many other tools, sporting “modern” Kickstart 2+ bevel boxes while keeping true to the original – old blue – Kickstart 1.x aesthetic. Can’t wait to give this a run on my ACA500+ Amiga 500!
• 12 days
  Christmas is around the corner and I accidentally stumbled upon this old browser 4k intro by gasman while I was searching for Unicode/emoji-based productions on demozoo.org. The silly repetitiveness of the original song paired with the choice of emoticons and the cozy 8-bit sound just puts a smile on my face. :)
• Ohno Type School
  If you’re into typography, this is for you. If not, this detailed (and hilarious) typography course will captivate you anyway! Make sure you have the time before clicking the link, though, it will be hard to stop yourself from reading everything from A to Z in one go! (Come to think of it, I might add a “typography” category here some day; see „Anführungszeichen“, Retro-Fonts auf TikTok, Topaz 1.4, New New Topaz lore, A capital sharp S for Topaz, It’s all Greek to me, January typo bits, Weird typo bugs in “Stern” magazine, “UI” as in “utterly idiotic”)
• Achieving period-correct graphics in personal computer emulators — Part 1: The Amiga
  Getting a nice-looking cathode-ray (i. e. old-timey monitor) display emulation on your modern computer with millions of pixels is always a hot topic in the retro scene (see also datagubbe’s latest essay). I’m not sure if I will ever go through all the hassle laid out in this helpful and comprehensive how-to article (as a coder, I’m usually more interested in unfiltered pixels), but I sure as hell feel less incompetent that I never got very far when I tried to achieve such an effect in WinUAE… :)