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

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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myspace RSS feeds to save time | typewriting: This is well fucking handy. Respect to this bloke.

Next thing I think I need to do is write a little conversion script in PHP or something, that

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

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