David A. Smith has posted the source code for The Colony
(for Mac, PC and Amiga)
- the first realtime 3d adventure game.
https://github.com/Croquetx/thecolony
There's a 'Teleprinter' font, which is close, but doesn't include the
backward arrow:
https://web.archive.org/web/2819043545/ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mzanzig/FREE.HTM
On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 4:00 AM ben via cctalk
wrote:
> How do you print old files in ASCII 63 to modern devices,
The fancy arrows in Fira Code are ligatures. (Yuk! I'm not yet a convert)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx
ASCII-63 had a backward-arrow that disappeared in later revisions of the
standard, replaced with underscore (and also an upward-arrow which was
Hi Steve!
I don't think Glowforge does DXF natively, but it should be easy enough to
convert to SVG using e.g. Inkscape. I have a small paper-tape-pattern
Python app that generates svg for this purpose - very much like your
ptap2dxf, but less sophisticated :)
Tony, maybe your collection can help me answer a puzzle: which side is
"top"? By my reading, for 8-level tape,
- ANSI and other US standards have three data bits / index / then five data
bits
- ECMA has five/index/three... :)
https://twitter.com/33asr/status/1138758004747177984
On Fri, May 1,
I've cut Mylar tape with a Glowforge laser. It cuts very nicely but the
alignment is a major hassle, plus you can only cut ~15" of tape which
doesn't go very far. Not worth the effort. If you were to build a custom
linear drive it might work. But also very slow.
Here's a picture of a
