[HECnet] Messing with sixel and LA75 and SSTudoku

[Erik Olofsen]

Hi Sampsa,

I added a few sentences and one image on the version on my website:

http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html

The last image takes just 2s on RULLFS to compose :)

So at the end I end with the notion that Sixel graphics in e.g. XTerm
may perhaps even have a future! Do you know another application?

Erik

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:19:32PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah I'll fire up Xnest in a week or so when I have the bandwidth :)

Will send you PDFs of the laid out article.

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On 3 Nov 2013, at 12:36, Erik Olofsen <e.olofsen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

Hi Sampsa,

I made some corrections and I think it is ready, unless you have
further suggestions for improvement. You can edit it as you like
and add further screenshots (I don't think I have dtterm). Perhaps
this depends on Mark Wickens' contribution. Is it something to put
in http://retrotron.sampsa.com/magazine/ ? Or I can have a link to
this material on my own web server?

Files are attached.

Erik

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Cool, that's like 2-3 pages of material.

I could throw in a screenshot of DTTERM as well, and say this is how it looks on a real DEC VMS box..:)

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On 2 Nov 2013, at 18:51, Erik Olofsen <e.olofsen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

Hi Sampsa,

This is a first draft, where I have a reference to Mark's contribution.

http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html

Mark: would you perhaps like to be co-author?

Erik


On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:41:34PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah go for it. The more the better.

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On 1 Nov 2013, at 13:44, Erik Olofsen <e.olofsen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

Hi Sampsa,

In case you think it is interesting, I can write something about my
Sixel image viewer.

See also below for something that may be fun for the Retrotron.
(The implementation and the game rules are at alpha stage.)

Erik

---

It is hard to imagine, but perhaps even Captain Kirk sometimes played
a Sudoku before boldly going where no man has gone before:

http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sst/sudoku.html

There are nine entities in the Sudoku chart, but a Starfleet ship
may be a Galileo, Faerie Queene, or an Enterprise; a Klingon may
be an ordinary one, a Commmander or a Super Commander. (This depends
on a Greek-Latin square).

The Sudoku is played backwards, because the Federation is under attack.
Entities are removed at random if they take up a unique position.
In a fight, the strength matters, but if you take up a unique position,
you are trapped and may be destroyed.

It was good that Kirk practiced in a game first, because in the first
battle he lets the Galileo fight with a Klingon Super Commander.

Next there are some easy battles; in the one but last battle, a
Romulan ship disappeared from Quadrant 1 - 2, Sector 3 - 1.

Captain Kirk did not notice this in the next battle at Quadrant 1 - 2.
The Enterprise has nowhere to go, but the Commander can move to Sector
3 - 1, and Kirk loses another ship...

He then decides he might be better at real missions :)

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:39:56PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Mark,

Sorry, no DECwrite, I won't even deal with docx :)

ASCII txt and RTF with basic formatting only, and if you want pictures / diagrams, mark the spot where you'd like it wrt to the text with [* ... *], for example:

--- SNIP ---

This is my newest MLP, Candlestick, still in it's box: [** candle.jpg **] I prefer to keep my MLPs boxed since I don't feel I am ready for the type of relationship touching would entail.

--- SNIP ---
(No offence to bronies out there intended, just had to make something up the spot.)

Then just send me a ZIP of text and all the images. 

If you have an editor that can create RTFD, you can dispense with the [* ... *] notation as the doc will have the pics in the right place (remember that RTFDs are bundles and need to be zipped).

The magazine is laid out in columns like a "proper" magazine (easier to read) but it's hard to promise EXACTLY where a picture will go in your submission. We'll run the submission by you before going live of course, and correct it as much as possible


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On 30 Oct 2013, at 22:28, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

On 30/10/2013 20:26, Sampsa Laine wrote:
This version specifically, at the start of the DEChead/HECnet etc section of the magazine:

http://www.sampsa.com/DECMonkey.jpg

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On 30 Oct 2013, at 22:12, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

This is going in the exit retrotron magazine.

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On 30 Oct 2013, at 17:53, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

https://db.tt/G5b8sbRX


Sent from Samsung Mobile
Cool. I may get round to writing you something at some point.

Do you accept DECwrite files? ;)

Mark.

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