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Community Question Of The Week - Episode 275

We looked at a heavily modded Amiga A1200 and asked: If you could mod-up your dream system with all the bells and whistles, what would it be?

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u/Producer_Duncan — 2 days ago
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I wanted to use OCP Art Studio again after 40 years, but I didn't have the plastic Lenslok. So I built a web decoder.

Back in 1986, on a CZ-Spectrum (a local Argentine clone), I fell in love with Art Studio. Decades later, I wanted to revisit my retro pixel art roots on an emulator, but I hit a wall: I didn't have the Lenslok prism to get past the copy protection.

Simon Owen built a brilliant C++ Windows utility (LensKey) to solve this years ago. Since I'm on a macOS environment and wanted something without dependencies, I extracted his original mathematical transformation matrices and ported the whole thing to a modern, client-side web.

It's completely free, runs locally in your browser, and handles the screen capturing workflows smoothly.

You can use it here directly: https://www.bustelo.com.ar/apps/lenskey-web/index-en.html

Or check the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/sbustelo/lenskey-web

Huge thanks to Simon Owen for the original reverse engineering. Hope this helps someone else trying to play Elite, Tomahawk, or Art Studio today :)

u/Crazy-Red-Fox — 4 days ago
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I made a Neo-Retro game

I made a game that sought to take video games from the era where most videos games were ports of arcade games or heavily inspired by arcade games and "upgrade" them. I like to think of this game (Hyper_Sea_5000) as a fully 3D version of Galaga and/or Gyruss. The unforgiving difficulty with some modern upgrades to make it less annoying and more fun.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164460/Hyper_Sea_5000/

u/OldSignificance9574 — 3 days ago
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Sony to end physical disc production in 2028

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In a move no one is surprised to see, but yet is none the less saddening and possibly will lead to less consumer rights

u/naokis28 — 5 days ago
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UKAG meetup - what happened?

https://preview.redd.it/weg4nt7xmaah1.png?width=1501&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e4ac57529a4643dacca5f11f01a02d59b7c35f6

Hi all, it was a pleasure to be on an episode recently, where I mentioned the first Amstrad meetup in the UK.

It happened recently and I thought I'd share this video of the highlights:

https://youtu.be/37RguACoeSQ

Thank you so much for your support, especially Dave, Chris, Jason and Producer Duncan :D

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u/Beztoser — 5 days ago