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watching house md and in episode 4x10 "It's a Wonderful Lie" this garfield strip caught my girlfriend's eye.

computer enhance

that's

that's the fucking "why do they call it oven" strip (July 13 1986)

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hey gang

made a new tool on the internet you can play with it if you like it's called the ditherinator

with it you can turn boring old pictures like this

into a retro computer masterpiece

i hope you like it please show me the cool stuff you make with it ok thank you i love you bye

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reposting a self-servicing little zine i wrote about 4 years ago originally posted on my now suspended twitter that now resides in my non-corpoate-owned blog

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✋ "alters"

✋ "headmates"

👉 "palette swap sprites"

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thank you to averyluckyclover for letting me do this silly edit

random noise to let you know I love u

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playing with my m5 cardputer, wrote a software audio mixing library in micropython and made a crude sequencer with it

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webgbcam 4.2 now has 1bpp mode with atkinson dithering

https://maple.pet/webgbcam have fun

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hey can i throw my hat into the ring with my little webiste called the netizen club link cache that i've been curating for the past year

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

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AMIGAAAAAAAAAA

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trailmakers' spacebound update is out and you know what that means

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making things online is lonely. i've made a bunch of tools and cool stuff online i shared with others not because i want fame and power but because i want people to enjoy them and tell me they enjoy it. i make things for others and i'm attention starved for the validation. if you ever enjoyed something i (or others) made, please, just shout us a thanks

i don't have a lot of friends at all. i don't have constant validation. most days i feel like if i dropped dead nobody would notice. one quick message (not a mindless star/heart click, please) helps turn that around a bunch.

and if you have no idea who i am, please, peruse our wares: https://maple.pet

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"It's a great day for golf, and there's no place like Pebble Beach!"

CGA portrait of Craig "The Walrus" Stadler for @weaselsblaugh, thank you for commissioning me!

If you want pixel portraits like these check out https://maple.pet/commissions, and also check out Weasel's Golfshrine Online at https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/!

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grew up poor, learnt quick basic on a half broken 486 NEC laptop gifted to me by a wealthy friend of the family in 2004, became an embedded systems engineer at age 24 schooling old hats who had been in the field since before i was activated

How did you get into vintage computing as a hobby?

I've told my perspective before on how this became my hobby of choice, but I want to hear from YOU. What lead you to vintage computing?

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Hey, I was wondering if you could tell me about your canon typestar 10 ii? I'm looking into a thermal typewriter (specifically for writing on, not for any interface needs) and it's one of the only ones that seems to show up round here. Specifically do you know if it comes with extra typestyles as standard, or are they side loaded via cartridge like the typestar 7?

apologies if this was a weird question to get from a stranger. Alex dueppen mentioned your machine on his blog, and cannot for the life of me find the answer anywhere else so far.

oh wow, i had no idea someone mentioned my specific machine in their blog! i think i posted about it on my twitter, which is sadly now completely lost to a permanent suspension.

like he mentions in comparison to his model 7, the 10-II is *extremely* cost cut. it has no computer interface and no cartridge interface, you can see inside the cavernous gap where such features would usually live. everything it has is built-in only (canon used this as a selling point!) and there are no extra typefaces, only a few features such as bold, underline, double width etc.

unfortunately the quality of this sample kinda sucks because i used the back of a piece of scrap paper and i rewound the only cartridge that i had, which is single-use, which meant that whatever on the carbon tape that had already been typed translates to gaps in the "ink" on the paper (and i had a record of everything that had been previously typed with that cartridge!)

here's a demo of it printing onto thermal fax paper:

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i don't have enough money to give you $20 but i like your posts. tell me more about the melma board

the melma board was recalled shortly after its debut and now you can only find old used ones in thrift stores or potentially forgotten in an attic