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Brendan needs another blog like a hole in the head.
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Grafx2 redux, or whatever

This is really cool - some guys found a bit of sourcecode for the old Grafx2 edit tool and they’ve been working it up into an SDL app with extra features, open source and, most importantly, proper documentation (for the first time ever).

For those who don’t know, Grafx2 was an MS DOS app designed to be a lot like the legendary Deluxe Paint series on the Amiga, with pixelartists specifically in mind. Anyway, PulkoMandy (one guy? Two? I’m not sure) has been describing his progress in this pouet thread and he reckons that when the config tool is finished, keyshortcuts will be customisable. Hooray!

Anyway, a full nine years after the unfinished Win32 beta first appeared, here is the 97% finished up-to-date release :D

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8th of Oct

Backpedal

Hmm… It was a nice little excercise - trying to get recently posted vids thumbnailed up in a sidebar - but I think I’ll back down. Due to the way tumblr’s markup system works, once vids leave the currently-displayed page, they can’t be displayed in a sidebar anyway. The solution that would instantly solve all complexities would be to write up the whole thing as an external site, then use the Tumblr API to fill it with my tumblr’s stuff…but do I want to leave tumblr.com? Not really.

Still, I learnt how to use PHP to rewrite a block of shittily prepared embed code as a block of nicely prepared embed code, so that’s something. It’s just a shame to waste that nice mouseover shading thing…maybe I can use that in my vid posts?

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soundtoys.net -

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Let’s see if this works…

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7th of Oct

myspace RSS feeds to save time | typewriting

This is well fucking handy. Respect to this bloke.

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6th of Oct

Tiny feast made from back-of-fridge scrapings. And a secret ingredient!

Throw a dribble of Mr. Yoshida’s sauce in your stir-fry right near the end, then add the noodles.

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Getting there...

Next thing I think I need to do is write a little conversion script in PHP or something, that’ll take an embed code from DTV and output a fancier one like you get from capped.tv. Then when I display all recent vids on the left-hand side, with the darkened mouseover hover thingy, I don’t have to manually edit each DTV post from a capped.tv template.

I reckon this technique should work nicely enough - although due to Tumblr’s quirks, it first checks the currently displayed content (which it seems only to be able to do once) before re-displaying a content type (video, in this case)…which means when you view the permalink of a given video, you’ll see the same video on the left by itself. Well, I can live with that.

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Me and evilpaul of ate bit released this basic but fun demo entitled Ribbons, Tunnels & Techno at Sundown 08 in Devon a few weeks ago. I did the music over a couple of evenings and he did the code and artwork as a trial-run of his new PC demo engine.

Got a mixed response on pouet, needless to say ;) We couldn’t give a fuck - it was good fun to do, and it’s good excercise to churn out straightforward techno demos…something we intend to do over the next few months to keep our respective hands in.

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