Hypercam 2 Release Date

[Bulah Landaker]

UnregisteredHyperCam 2 is a watermark displayed in the upper-left corner of footage recorded with free versions of the HyperCam 2 screen capture software developed by Hyperionics, Inc. The software was widely used as a screen recording software to make YouTube videos during the site's early years, frequently in instructional and tutorial videos.

In the early 2000s, Hyperionics released the second version of their HyperCam screencasting software, which displayed the digital watermark "Unregistered Hypercam 2" in the upper left-hand corner of videos recorded with free versions of the program. On August 6th, 2008, YouTuber Kyle Morse uploaded a video titled "How to get on top of the night club in club penguin with out hacking," which featured the HyperCam watermark displayed over footage of Windows Notepad window and the 2001 song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool playing in the background (shown below).

In June 2010, Hyperionics released HyperCam 3, which contained a similar watermark for unregistered version. On June 7th, Minecraft Forums[6] member shawnachu submitted a post titled "No more Unregistered Hypercam 2" announcing the release. On May 28th, 2012, YouTuber ObscureNForeign uploaded a video containing a close-up of the watermark (shown below).

On April 24th, 2015, Redditor BySumbergsStache submitted a post asking "What is unregistered hypercam 2?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop,[1] to which Redditor Pseudolus_Festivus replied that the software was widely used to record Runescape videos. On March 30th, 2015, Redditor Norty_Adam submitted a "roses are red" ending with the line "unregistered HyperCam 2" (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post gained over 3,600 points (93% upvoted) and 80 comments on /r/2007scape.[4]

On September 16th, Redditor Tanskiie submitted a post asking about the link between "'Unregistered Hypercam 2', 'Notepad' and 'Let the bodies hit the floor'" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.[2] On April 2nd, 2017, Redditor Psycho9182 submitted a post asking to place a pixel art representation of the "Unregistered HyperCam 2" watermark at the top left corner of the /r/place[5] canvas, which gained over 18,100 points (88% upvoted) within 48 hours. That day, the watermark was successfully added to the canvas (shown below).

I don't believe Altair cameras are supported on the RPi. I'm sure I've asked Altair, possibly more than once, and been told there's no ARM/RPi SDK available. Which is kind of odd when you consider that ARM SDKs are available for other cameras from the Touptek stable and the core code is probably very similar for them all.

Astroberry is based on Ubuntu, and there are altair drivers for indi that work with ubuntu. I'd prefer to see if I can get this working with Raspbian though. This is the thing that I like least about linux, too many distributions each with their own quirks and that makes software hard to install.

I think I just cracked it. Seems that there's a program called indi starter that you can get from the CDC people, once installed, that gives me a gui to tell it what drivers to use. I think that will give some progress

Just to mention that Astroberry 2.0 uses Raspbian (Buster) rather than Ubuntu, and that an alternative installation method uses the AstroPi3 script. I use this with ZWO camera and Canon DSLRs. If Altair Astro camera drivers are available they should get installed when this script is run.

@Avocette I tried the AstroPI script, it installed alot of stuff, but in the process wrecked a load of settings that I'd already made. That said, last after making the post, I did try running some of the bits from the Astroberry setup, which as you said now uses buster, and it looks like it's installed everything.

I just need to figure out how to connect to cameras via indi. I'm going to play with that today using one of my ZWO cameras, but I want to connect via indi and not direct to the camera. (so that I can mimic the altair camera setup)

My apologies. I probably confused myself on this (very long day yesterday -- started work at 9am and didn't finish until gone midnight). At one point there were RPi drivers available. Those would appear to be what is in INDI. They're over a year old now and may be unreliable, particularly with newer cameras. They probably also don't support older Altair cameras such as the original GPCAM models (MT9M034?) as support was removed for those. I think, though I am not sure, that cameras such as the Hypercam 174 require a later version of the drivers. On MacOS and 64-bit Intel I am using a version from mid August 2019 which does not appear to be in INDI yet.

"There were new releases of AltairCapture for Linux and MacOS a month or so back, using libaltaircam version 39.15364.20190819, but just on Intel platforms. Are there versions of that same library available for ARM-based Linux systems?"

So I guess it might work or it might not If people already running Astroberry can use the same cameras as you have successfully then it looks good. Otherwise you probably just have to try it and see what happens. It may be worth adding your voice to the few who have expressed an interest in up-to-date drivers for the RPi to Altair. I imagine the more who do the more likely they are to do something about it.

Just use Indi Web GUI - especially with Astroberry(but comes with all versions of Indi) - it controls Indiserver and you can create profiles for what drivers you want starting. It also has the ability to restart individual drivers - so you dont have to restart all the drivers - a very useful point.

As for Astroberry. I thought it was based on ubuntu, but that is obviously wrong. That will explain why it was easy to install some of the software direct from the astroberry repos. (saved me a lot of time and hassle)

And yes it will auto start, and auto connect devices (must be online FIRST) plus as I said restart individual drivers when problems - doesn't always sor the problem but better than having to restart INDISERVER

See attached screen print with Altair indriver set up - does not mean it will work - I dont have a altair camera ? This was using Chrome on the RPI but it could have been any browser on any box (note maybe some problems with IE)

The only CON (Pro and Con) is that you cant change to nightly (experimental) repository but main repository for Asroberry V2 is update quite regularly - Even has some obscure software called Oacapture LOL ? Updates are done as per Ubuntu. Plus hopefully when the RPI4 B+ comes out in 4 weeks time you will be able to use it out of the box (maybe) not wait for Ubuntu etc to catch up - which they haven't still really (server version only) plus a messy desktop install.

P.S. If you cant get your Altair to work - you could try using CCDCIEL it can run on Windows(macos or Linux) talk to Indi (like Ekos) AND connect to Ascom camera's at the same time which I presume Altair camera's have ???? Unfortunately you will have to have a cable to your Windows/Macos PC from the Altair device.

It won't save me any hassle at all, as for my needs I want to run software and configurations that are not part of AstroBerry. There are things that are not standard at all so I really do not want to start from anything other than the complete official raspbian image. (I have reasons, and don't want to elaborate) besides, I think I already solved the problem just before I went to bed last night and anything else now will be a setback.

Astroberry 2.0.0 is built on top of official "Raspbian Buster with desktop" (Release date: 2019-09-26). You can install it on "Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software" following commands on

Rather than using the hotspot that you provide, I'm using a different project called RaspAP. This allows the PI to be a hotspot whilst connecting to a network as a client over wifi at the same time! This makes it more flexible when as I don't need to choose whether to be a hotspot, or have it connect to a network, it can do both at the same time.

Astroberry is a great starting point for those who don't have specialist needs, in fact I'd still recommend that people look at it as the first port of call to see if it does everything they need, it most likely does.... and more. (Just I'm very very picky)

I use Astroberry as the starting point for my astro projects. Astroberry Focuser works well with my stepper driven focusers and I modify Astroberry Board for controlling things like dew heaters. I shall also be using it for my observatory ROR roof control.

I am extremely excited to review a new astronomy camera from Altair Astro, the Hypercam 183C. This is a CMOS color deep sky imaging camera and boasts some impressive astrophotography features out of the box.

I should be receiving the Hypercam as early as next week, and I will be providing a video review of its deep sky imaging capabilities. At under $1000 (CDN), this astronomy camera is a solid contender for those looking for an upgrade to their stock DSLR.

Thanks to my friends at Ontario Telescope & Accessories, I have been given the opportunity to take some deep sky images using the Hypercam 183C. This Color CMOS CCD Camera will be attached to my Explore Scientific ED102 Telescope for the next month or so.

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