Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.
Why is it dithered like this? To save bandwidth? I wasn't on the internet much before 2010, so maybe this is an old technique you don't see anymore.
Originally, sort of. But also to work around limitations in GIF (which is palette-based; but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#True_color) and because people didn't always have true-colour monitors (or ran the monitor in a different mode due to VRAM restrictions) anyway.
In today's context, more for the aesthetic, presumably.
(And, once, also HDR.)
only most do
Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!
Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro hardware.
I have an actual original C-64 from around 1986. I got it recapped a few years back and it worked! Now the floppy and tape drives gather dust: it has USB 8)
Oh and I have an original Quickshot II, which still works despite "Daley Thomson's Decathalon".
I'm going to give it to my son in law this Chrimbo - "Attack of the mutant camels" and "Matrix" etc needs new players.
This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.
Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with Silent Night soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20 one Christmas back in the 80s.
This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.
i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.
Definitely a clickbait title. I thought it'd be about those infamous Rifa caps.
Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.
Why is it dithered like this? To save bandwidth? I wasn't on the internet much before 2010, so maybe this is an old technique you don't see anymore.
Originally, sort of. But also to work around limitations in GIF (which is palette-based; but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#True_color) and because people didn't always have true-colour monitors (or ran the monitor in a different mode due to VRAM restrictions) anyway.
In today's context, more for the aesthetic, presumably.
(And, once, also HDR.)
only most do
Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!
Just in time I received my brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate directly before Christmas. What a lovely made piece of retro hardware.
I have an actual original C-64 from around 1986. I got it recapped a few years back and it worked! Now the floppy and tape drives gather dust: it has USB 8)
Oh and I have an original Quickshot II, which still works despite "Daley Thomson's Decathalon".
I'm going to give it to my son in law this Chrimbo - "Attack of the mutant camels" and "Matrix" etc needs new players.
This is very nice, enjoyment-driven, seasonal hacking. Cool.
Brought back happy memories of the much simpler, much less impressive falling snowflakes animation, complete with Silent Night soundtrack, that I laboriously wrote in Basic on my Vic-20 one Christmas back in the 80s.
This is particularly awesome cause I can't imagine anyone thinking of making a fake fireplace with a computer screen in the c64 era.
i thought this was going to involve capacitor plague. rather a retro dive into coding an 8bit digital fireplace.
Definitely a clickbait title. I thought it'd be about those infamous Rifa caps.
> https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire/cozy.jpg
That should have been a real CRT monitor to give this picture a true feeling of the 80s!
Simulated 14" portable TV fascia with tuning knob* and mono speaker grille.
*set to channel 36, natch
> set to channel 36, natch
Was that specific to C64? I recall old consoles and VCRs using either channel 3 or 4.