Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.
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• Second Nature
  Gigabates and h0ffman write about the concept, the code, the music, the tech, and the tricks behind “Second Nature” (YouTube) by Desire and TTE. A real treat – both the demo and this write-up!
• 3D Demo 3 - Technical Deep Dive
  Another huge write-up for a huge Amiga production, 3D Demo 3 by Lemon.! I love the mood boards, the technical sketches, and the sheer amount of stuff.
• The magic of typing terminal commands
  An ode to the terminal. Beatiful. Recently, I have come to enjoy that terminal-anticipation a lot on my Amiga 500 as well, whenever I need to lha x (unpack) a file, or httpresume (download) something, and see that trusty old computer do its thing. There’s even terminal-pre-anticipation: Pressung Right-Amiga and E and typing in newcli to launch a new shell window in the first place…
  
  
• Playing ATARI music on Amiga for free!
  A new level of No-CPU madness, a genius way to make use of an obscure feature of the audio hardware, and an oldschool “one better than you” response to the dots part of “3D Demo 3” – what is it, Leonard? It’s all of it, of course, and a lovingly detailled post about it all on top.
• A memory heatmap to analyse BBCMicro code
  More inspiration for new Coppenheimer features (link goes to the old version) snatched off Bluesky. I always liked WinUAE’s heatmap-like visual memory map which looks a lot like this. So far, I’ve only got the buttons for it, and a proof-of-concept blitter visualization. And a 13×10 pixel icon, which is of course the most important bit!