So how hard is it to make a fake bitmap ttf? I've got the sgi console font in a true bitmap font format (.font) and none of the online sites are interested in converting to a modern font format that window 10+ demands.
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13841. Reziac (97.121.215.193) –
05 Oct 2021 19:24:06
[ Number 42 ]
This is so very weird. I first saw your fonts... 25? years ago, but just last month tripped over this blog. Sometimes the world is very small. Happy birthday! |
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13839. Anonymous (68.148.21.33) –
02 Oct 2021 14:52:14
[ Number 42 ]
Happy Birthday! |
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13838. AnonymousBJ (207.53.200.138) –
02 Oct 2021 12:26:25
[ ARST ARSW ]
Hi Tom! Great work. |
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13837. Roland M (24.16.210.82) –
01 Oct 2021 22:30:57
[ Number 42 ]
Looking at those images of FixedSys, I'm realizing that in my mind FixedSys has always just been "The Tom7 font" :P |
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Thanks for perusing my old things and for telling me, Someone! (: |
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Hey Tom, just letting you know that you still rock, and your old stuff still rules. |
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13828. jonas (176.63.12.71) –
03 Aug 2021 09:49:23
[ 22:33:44 ]
Well, I did also consider the possibility that rather than using cake, which you can bake in advance and store for weeks, your costume includes something more perishable so you need to do most of the setup on the dawn of the race. |
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13827. Tom 7 (74.98.220.200) –
31 Jul 2021 23:32:00
[ 22:33:44 ]
jonas: I sure made it sound like that, huh? It is well underway although I did make a mistake in the design (isn't this what CAD is supposed to prevent??) that was a bit discouraging, but correctable. It is still true that I can probably get this done in a weekend if I just stop getting distracted (: |
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13826. Tom 7 (74.98.220.200) –
31 Jul 2021 22:15:30
[ 22:33:44 ]
Anon: Thx! I was sure I tested it but I maybe have changed something afterwards. Should be fixed now! |
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13822. Anonymous (84.181.125.128) –
17 Jul 2021 19:20:33
[ 22:33:44 ]
This is entirely unrelated to this post but I just wanted to tell you that all the images and download links on your fonts page are broken (404) |
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13820. Scott F (52.119.123.120) –
06 Jul 2021 03:13:51
[ Summer! ]
It's interesting that TypeScript won the popularity contest over Flow, which was fundamentally a stronger system that caught more errors. Must have been some combination of tooling, marketing, and the network effect of a large community. Now Facebook admits it's only building Flow for its own use and won't take other users into consideration anymore, so that pretty much ends the competition. |
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13819. jonas (176.63.12.145) –
01 Jul 2021 15:15:51
[ 22:33:44 ]
> The main problem is that to finish the project and the filming, I need a decent weekend (like: not on a road trip, not hosting visitor, not 95°F, not raining) and these have *not* been forthcoming.
Does this mean that's you're basically done with the costume? Great!
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13818. Adam (74.111.125.30) –
01 Jul 2021 01:18:45
[ 22:33:44 ]
FIVE THOUSAND YEARS LATER |
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13817. Anonymous (86.107.21.244) –
20 Jun 2021 01:59:41
[ Summer! ]
If you want something JS-y with a good type system, I would recommend purescript [1]. It it perhaps quite a jump even from TS in terms of language feel, but I've found it to be an absolute revelation for front-end work!
[1]: https://www.purescript.org/ |
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I'd toootally play the guitar hero thing if it ever came out, lol
The robot makes it worth it! :v |
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13815. Tim McCormack (130.44.147.140) –
01 Jun 2021 10:58:08
[ Summer! ]
My wife has a background in horticulture, agronomy, and ecology and was WTFing quite a bit throughout The Martian. Apparently the author researched the space stuff pretty well but thought "eh, biology, how complicated could that be?" and didn't invest so much in the realism there. (Someone with the protagonist's background should know better than to plant a monoculture in such dire circumstances, for instance.) |
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I have a question. Is there a real human here who can get back to me? |
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Tom, will you make it possible to play on osX Big Sur / M1 ? |
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Heads up: new season of Search Party is out.
Also I made a very stupid website you might like: www.bestbytest.net |
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That is a sexy mini cooper! |
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I do have ideas!
I butchered your makefile but got all three platforms building on GitHub:
https://github.com/jrr/tom7misc/pull/4
I'm not sure using another source control system and host qualifies as minimally-invasive, but it's one way to get Mac builds at least. Also I learned that GitHub has an automagic SVN import that slurps up all the history, so FWIW if you ever do decide to migrate it won't be hard. |
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I just found a video that mentions your reverse emulating the NES project: "https://youtu.be/dD37VRCf8eQ?t=948" |
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I tell ya, I was extremely enthusiastic to watch those 24 minutes. As a caʒ lover of both machine learning and typography, it felt like it was just for me. |
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It is still on sourceforge, but they are always changin' their URLs around:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tom7misc/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/escapex/
One of the main obstacles to releasing again on mac is that I don't have a suitable computer to compile with! But if you have ideas or minimally-invasive (e.g. I would really like to be able to compile with free tools from a makefile) portability improvements, lemme know!
Max: Fortunately it was a mix CD! I wish it had been something more poetic. |
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