•On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:43:59 +0200, Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnu
ll> wrote:

> On 26/10/2015 09:06 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Only 2 colours per 8x8 pixels was the main drawback of the display.
>
> Oh yeah... I forgot about that! One time I wrote a program to draw  

> randomly positioned circles in random colours. After a few minutes of 
 

> drawing, most of the pixels were in the "on" state, but there were wei
rd  

> squares of colour that changed every time a new circle was started.
>
> I also remember saving several test patterns to tape, and eventually  

> discovering which colour provoked which tone from the speaker... Jesus
,  

> I was bored as a child!
>
> I've always wanted to know... why is the framebuffer arranged so  

> weirdly? Like, as you load a picture file, rather than filling from to
p  

> to bottom, it seems to fill every Nth line...

I remember

•Upgrading my 16K to a 48K
•Doing string-art type designs just to see the interesting desig
ns that  

aliasing resulted in.
•Designing my own fonts.
•Printing a school project on thermal paper. Bad idea.
•Making a 3d wireframe modeler that could only take 100 edges. T
he  

wireframe "render" could then further be coloured and textured with my  

custom paint program. Since I didn't have a joystick, I controlled the  

brush with 2 different systems: Angular (L & R arrows altered the angle 
of  

movement) an Normal.
•Dumping my Speccy in the bin because it died and you couldn't g
et parts  

anymore.

Now if I could just find the time to learn proper programming and contin
ue  

the 3d project on my pc.

-- 

-Nekar Xenos-

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