Inside Commodore Amiga's History: Stories, Secrets & Original Lorraine Prototype at VCF East 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AYDkuMg-U
«An unforgettable deep dive into the history of the Commodore Amiga at VCF East Amiga 40 Roundtable 1 of 2 featuring a legendary panel of original engineers: Ron Nicholson, Dale Luck, Glenn Keller, Andy Finkel, Randell Jesup, Peter Cherna, and Jeff Porter coming together to share incredible, behind-the-scenes stories from the birth of the Amiga».
I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 
So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 
Just received the "W.O.P.R. 64" cartridge for the #C64 expansion port. It features 32 LEDs to indicating signals on the #MOS6502 address and data busses and for 8 control port indicators:
https://www.tindie.com/products/thedarkforest/wopr64-for-commodore-64/
In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s
Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
Palm OS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
The coder of our former Amiga game dev team has fed an old Polaroid picture of us to ChatGPT's image generator.
The first result shows the now almost obligatory Studio Ghibli style, and the other variant is how we might look when we're 75. 
I'm the one with the dark sweater by the way. 
Straight outta 2006! Remember multiple expired antiviruses, obsessive defragging, and "experts" recommending Win9x on new hardware? I wrote about it back then. Here's the translated post for some tech nostalgia (or PTSD?).
I've always liked the BeOS icons. Here is a site to download them all.
PSA for users of Windows 2000: don't forget to update your regional options for two digit year parsing! We're fast approaching the default of 2029.
"Gotcha!"
I added the required plumbing for the opponent to make a sound when they serve, lose a point, or win a point.
I probably won't be able to have any opponent with the three sounds, as they take a lot of room. But I *think* none of them have all three, so it should be good.
Commit: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/b5880c21408b53a852d82402b156ef10da750168
Technical commit: I've changed the puck's X,Y coordinates from 8-bit integers in the range of 0-255, to 16-bit in the range 0-511. Along with one less division in the delta X/Y, this allows for twice the precision of movement.
In simple terms, it allows for the equivalent of having deltas 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 delta X/Y instead of only 0-1-2-3
Commit: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/58a70c06c62d0e7416be25d3b25da504a64f43ab
Joining Lexan tonight are Skip and Visine. I drew them myself, and I'm... OK with the result!
Of course the three of them all have their own style of play. I try to mimic the original game, but it is approximative, as I'm quite sure the original game had either 16 bit ints or floats.
Well hello, Lexan!
As I very much suck at pixel art, I searched for, and found, *perfect* sprites for my Shufflepuck : the ones made by Awot83 at https://github.com/Awot83/Gamebuino-Shufflepuck_cafe
They're very well made *and* GPL3+!
I've contacted the author so I can credit them, and in the meantime, I overcame a little challenge of the opponent's sprite being bigger than 256 bytes, commited that (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/735825275fce0f74da2dd9383af88b3c3d15c254) and am now playing against an embodied opponent!
Another insomnia put to good use this morning with the scoreboard ! (Commit: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/f87b515c44e5910e9610edc99cff41af406ae727)
And with that, I played my first full #Shufflepuck game after lunch.
Me speaking about using the #C64 as a teaching tool in today's #MedieStudies -- at last week's conference "Medium Lehrmittel" at HS Pforzheim. (Photo taken by Thomas Hensel):
https://www.hs-pforzheim.de/news_detailansicht/news/tagung_kupfer
The crash effect is now complete, after laboriously pulling a recursive tree drawing in assembly. Commit: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/c0f4c89b4abf29829a631da46f728c48c33f41d6
Yes, I have to reload the background, this is not ideal. But I can't resolve myself to add a buffer to hold a full copy of the background, even compressed. I'll add that last if room allows.
I added sound. It required adding a feature to the sound player to be able to arbitrarily slow the samples playback speed.
I'm not super happy with the samples, but they must be REAL short in order to avoid visibly hanging the game.
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #repair
Hi Folks,
need some swarm help - I am searching for a Sun document ...
814-5043-02 SPARCstation SLC Installation and Repair Guide
Anyone?
Commited my first opponent! (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/ee358e07527b80a9532115fee51bd4c125f9d953)
They're quite a good defender and not much of an attacker.
I have hopes of being able to implement multiple opponents' "personalities" by tweaking a few variables.
For now, the far side bounces the puck (makes it easier to test what exists)
The XY transformation was easier than I thought! (once I found the correct perspective factors to generate three tables using : https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/59444b6f199dee0150bf4eccda3345c5ec26c2ff#diff-9803b9b889bf9903fded1c4efc18fb51531d812245e01f1be231dc5141c2e6c6)
