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Hey folks!

In the most recent edition of 2600, an article I submitted was
published. It's all about playing with ancient MSPaint formats and
converting them to something modern like PNG. The original MS Paint in
Windows 1 and 2 had some very unique features that you don't see in many
bitmap drawing applications. The "rectangular prism" tool in particular
is great and I used it to great effect in making avatars for friends of
mine. See attached an example of an avatar created in MS Paint v1. It
has a very particular aesthetic that I like.

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No idea if that attachment will actually work or not.

Anyway, who here is subscribed to 2600? If you are and you enjoy it,
remember that (almost) all articles are written by the community, for
the community. So if you have something neat you're working on, or you discovered some neat new hack, write something up and send it in! You
never know, they might just print it ;)

Cheers,
amr

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, A.M. Rowsell wrote:

No idea if that attachment will actually work or not.

I have checked, it does; and this message did propagate throughout the peers (checked at both cosmic.voyage and tilde.team).

Though, it goes without saying that file attachments of any form
are highly discouraged on Tildeverse Netnews; in order to make its long-term storage weight low enough for non-expiring policy to become viable.
(Also, messages with attachments are *not* guaranteed to propagate
from Tilde to Tilde)

Hosting elsewhere and linking to them is more preferrable.

The "rectangular prism" tool in particular is great

Is it a tool that produced parallelogram on the middle of your image?
Or rather a tool that produced pattern fill near the top and bottom
of your image?

Anyway, who here is subscribed to 2600?

Not really. But that got me thinking: niche magazines that I had subscribed to (or was aiming to subscribe) have all gone out of print. I'm quite fond of
the self-contained article and illustration format of one electronics hobbyists' magazine [1] published in my country, which I have mainly
read via consolidated volumes I collect.

Anyhow, I don't plan to write article for an actual magazine [2] as I'm wary
of their copyright policy. So what's in my plan is just reviving the format (including illustration format), and use them to publish individual
electronics projects I designed and made online instead. [3]

Regards,
~xwindows


[1] It was a long-running Thai magazine literally called "Hobby Electronics",
published by Se-Education, ISSN 0858-9976. (Now out of print)
Its consolidated volumes, which I found in school library,
were my original inspiration to start learning about electronics
in the first place.

[2] Not that there are any local one left in my niche to write to now,
to my knowledge.

[3] Also freely-licensed of course.
<https://freedomdefined.org/>
--
xwindows' gallery of freely-licensed artworks
https://tilde.club/~xwindows/ http://tilde.club/~xwindows/ gopher://tilde.club/1/~xwindows/
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On Jan 26, 2022 at 12:49:07 PM PST, ""A.M. Rowsell"" <amr@tilde.club> wrote:

Anyway, who here is subscribed to 2600? If you are and you enjoy it,
remember that (almost) all articles are written by the community, for
the community. So if you have something neat you're working on, or you discovered some neat new hack, write something up and send it in! You
never know, they might just print it ;)

Lifetime subscriber here (both print and digital digest). been reading for years, and I still find something worthwile in every issue. I really should write something up and send it to them.
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