I didn't get this reference, thought it'd be something about comic sans, haha.
In case others are unfamiliar, too:
> Microsoft Comic Chat is a graphic IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group and later a group he managed in Microsoft's Internet Division.
But it is about Comic Sans! As mentioned in the article, Comic Sans was shipped with Comic Chat to render the text. It just managed to outlive the associated software.
Comic Sans was used in Comic Chat, however the first (documented and published) user of Comic Sans was ... 3D Video. Thus the circle to this discussion closes.
if this means BRender is open source too, and I get to play the first Carmageddon with 3DFX Glide on conveniently, happy days. I can hear the CD spin up Fear Factory already.
No. Because they have developed one of the most important languages of the last ten years, typescript; have exceptional developer tools; and employ some of our era’s most meaningful theorists in computer science and economics.
I just want the regular Windows Movie Maker to come back. It’s crazy how good that thing was for making basic movies. Simple non-linear editing that just worked.
Then they got rid of it and replaced it with… nothing?
I suspect VB6 code is still too heavily deployed in production and insecure as heck for Microsoft to be comfortable releasing it as open source, but I can hope. (The VB6 runtime is still included and supported as a component of Windows 11.)
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In case others are unfamiliar, too:
> Microsoft Comic Chat is a graphic IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group and later a group he managed in Microsoft's Internet Division.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#History
Who knew the metaverse would come with this many choices?
foone asked for it to be open sourced and then it was
https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1521698902579159040
https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace
Game is 100% completable. There are bugs and missing bits here and there, but it already plays like the original did and its super fun!
lots of previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31256676
https://github.com/bjrkk/3DMM/
https://github.com/foone/3DMMForever
Great software
Or do you say this because they managed to make notepad worse in windows 11?
https://www.windowslatest.com/2022/06/13/windows-11s-new-not...
Then they got rid of it and replaced it with… nothing?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker