microcontrolled said...
@localroger: I'm really just jealous that I didn't live in the era of the elegant 8 bit. Sure the new chips are faster, but the ol 8 bits have all but been made extinct. You older guys are lucky. You got to see and use the Sinclair, the Commodore 64, the Apple II...... But me? I'm living in a world where people buy electronics depending on their looks, programs because of their graphics, and operating systems because they look shiny. Most of the people around neither know nor care about how the electronics of today work. It was the good ol' days when computers ran on a command line and phones were JUST phones. When paying for software that you didn't OWN was unheard of, and when electronics were MADE to be hacked in to. Now in the days of the shiny icons and cool graphics you can't keep up with an 8-bit. I am now forced to use 32-bit microprocessors in order to keep up with the ever increasing technology rate. Lucky for all of us. there is the Propeller, and programming is fun again. Now with 8 processors in one chip, I have an alternative to keeping up with the change of tech that doesn't involve writing boring computer programs. So I'm not 'dissn your 8-bit micros. I just wish I could have used them. You go 'round brag'n like that 'gain, and I'll have to sic Happy Fun Ball on you.
Micro
Ah well.
Tell you what -- if you pay me the cover price (plus postage·because magazines were cheap back then) I will mail you an old Byte or Dr Dobbs or whatever else is on hand. We'll start with the oldest and work our way forward, one month at a time. They aren't new condition. Some are pretty dusty, some are puppy chewed, some are mouse pissed on, some still have the reader cards still in them, many are bent from trying to stand up for decades. Some predate the IBM PC, Microsoft uber alles, etc, etc, etc. But inspiration is there, still intact. Just let me know. Could be fun.
GIFs uses what I would call a "semi" alpha channel, since a pixel must be either opaque or fully trnasparent -- not somewhere in between. This makes it impossible to antialias the edges of objects against a transparent background. The jaggies apparent along the edges of Rich's otherwise very nice animation are the result.
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Tell you what -- if you pay me the cover price (plus postage·because magazines were cheap back then) I will mail you an old Byte or Dr Dobbs or whatever else is on hand. We'll start with the oldest and work our way forward, one month at a time. They aren't new condition. Some are pretty dusty, some are puppy chewed, some are mouse pissed on, some still have the reader cards still in them, many are bent from trying to stand up for decades. Some predate the IBM PC, Microsoft uber alles, etc, etc, etc. But inspiration is there, still intact. Just let me know. Could be fun.
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Here's my first ever animated gif created in the mid '90s. The alpha channel seems to be working just fine.
Rich H
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The Simple Servo Tester, a kit from Gadget Gangster.
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You only ever need two tools in life. If it moves and it shouldn't use Duct Tape. If it does not move and it should use WD40.