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Pakz

Generating pixel art with filtering

22nd March 2024

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Decided to continue with a old project.
Now I have 2 low energy mini pc’s that I can keep running for days. I added some filters to a image generator that is build from a binary string.
Every pass one addition is done to the binary numbe*snip*


Pakz

Old computer

7th March 2024

My mum has been trying to fix her home. Getting rid of lots of old stuff. She asked if I wanted my stepfathers old computer and monitor. An old desktop Celeron J3060 with 4gb of memory. It took me close to 2 days before it got updated. Old fashioned HDD. B*snip*


Pakz

TriEd Layered Triangle Map Editor

20th February 2024

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Looking at a screenshot of Gauntlet by Atari from 1985. I was thinking if I could recreate that level using triangles. Hours later I got this basic triangle tile map editor to a working state.
I has 2 layers. One big triangle tile map. And*snip*


Pakz

Narrations for video

8th February 2024

I spent hours this week practicing new voices. Imitations from several top 10 lists of actors.
Today I wil finish with 3 hours of getting more familiar with Morgan Freeman's voice.
Yesterday when trying Marty McFly suddenly it went fluent for a whil*snip*


Pakz

Video of a old map generator I did.

2nd February 2024

I made a short video of some older map generation code. I took some screenshots of a old game called Castles. And spent some time recreating the graphics in html and javascript.
I made some video's today and added one of my recent songs behind it. iMo*snip*


Jayenkai

Windows Upgrade

24th January 2024

Part One today. Should've been yesterday, but we're in the middle of a ruddy great storm, and they opted to leave it a day.
Today's upgrades were...
Out the back..
They replaced the sliding patio doors with nice big french doors, and replac*snip*


Jayenkai

Diabetic Eye Screening 2024

8th January 2024

''Diabetic Eye Screening at the Meeks Building''
...
*shrugs*
And once we figured out what the hell the Meeks Building was, and how the smeg to get in, we then spent the past couple of days deciding whether to..
A ) Get a Taxi
or
B ) Get me *snip*


Pakz

Re upload of now ai remastered old tunes.

23rd December 2023

I remastered a old collection of music that I wrote between 1992 and 2010. The remastering was done with artificial intelligence.
I was worried about new copyright problems with the new modern filters. But only one old reused melody got flagged causing no*snip*


Kuron

Kuron's Good Luck

8th December 2023

No, not a typo. Ole' Kuron does get some good luck.
The band KISS, recently did their last show after 50 years. Been a fan since the beginning. Am a member of a couple of KISS forums. One, gave a coupon for free merch (one item) from the official *snip*


Jayenkai

Ordered Food

13th November 2023

First proper Fast Food night, in the .bungalow, tonight.
The pizza place is right around the corner, and we did our normal pizza-place order.
Chicken wings and garlic mushrooms for mum
Kebab, wedges and jalapeño poppers for me.
Nom nom.
....
The chi*snip*


Kuron

Anbernic RG35XX

10th November 2023

It came the other day, and I have purposely NOT used it, because I wanted to put GarlicOS on it.
Well, I followed the directions, or so I thought. Installed GarlicOS as a two card setup, as the PlayStation files will likely take up one 512GB card by them*snip*


In Trance We Tru

Putting right a wrong.

6th November 2023

Intro
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In 1984 I applied for a job as a games programmer at Elite Systems Ltd, publishers of games like Kokotoni Wilf and Blue Thunder. I have no idea how I blagged my way into landing that job, but I did. I had been given the task of developing a *snip*


Jayenkai

Neighbour's Cats

10th August 2023

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Such a pretty cat.
It'll take your hand off if you try to stroke it, and will yell at you for daring to look at it, but it's a lovely little cat.
Our neighbours moved away from our street, to the new estate 'round the back, a *snip*


Pakz

House cleaning and sorting

3rd July 2023

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I am getting the more advanced crosstrainer tomorrow. The delivery guy wil assemble it so I dont injury myself again.
I am looking at some book storage options online. I collected these books from one of my storage rooms.
Most of the book*snip*


Pakz

Phone apps for health and development.

2nd July 2023

I got this phone app that can be used for tuning/freq finding/analysis/rating. Using it for vocal training since 2 days ago.
Totalenergy Tuner and metronome. (Linkage) (6 bucks)
A while ago apple added things like calorie counting and a whole range of he*snip*


Jayenkai

Goto Bungalow

20th June 2023

April 2023
We decide to get rid of my brown bookcases. They don't suit the room. For the past year or so, I've been trying to decide what to replace the brown bookcases with. Should we just paint them, or shall I opt for something bigger and be*snip*


Pakz

Assembly failure.

6th June 2023

I had ordered a cheapish new Crosstrainer. It arrived yesterday. I started assembling it. The reviews mentioned it was doable.
My IT centric life was no good for knowing tools and parts. I put the wrong side of a part into a screw head. I think that they*snip*


Pakz

Character drawing progress - megaman

23rd March 2023

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I started trying to see if I had progressed enough to be able to draw better characters.
I took some screenshots of a more modern Megaman, and started practicing.
I just did the one here in my iPad app Pixaki. This a 32x32 cell.
The sha*snip*


Pakz

Round ellipse head process. (Pixel art)

28th February 2023

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Doing a bit of art today.
I just noticed these (round) heads could be used in Spike Dislike :)
I looked at a screenshot of a Supercars 2 screenshot. Where there is a story I think it was.


Pakz

Drawing week - pixelart practice

12th February 2023

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I am getting a bit more familiar with the brush. Setting the sizes and creating patterns with it. The dithering and I think beveling is a bit more clearer.
Should I order that Apple pencil 2? I might maybe use it only a couple of dozen hour*snip*


Pakz

Pixelart Drawing project update..

19th January 2023

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The newsletter mentioned it was not that clear what the tool I am working on was going to be.
Well, I had the idea to use some of the things I learned about procedural generation and drawing to make my own tool that uses tho*snip*


Pakz

Very busy coding.

14th January 2023

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I added the first file for a new project a week ago. I have spent a lot of time coding. I even think I might have forgotten to vote on the polls one or more times. My main code crossed the c64 memory size. +64kb.
I do need to take breaks t*snip*


Pakz

Another new project - pixel paint brushes

10th January 2023

After seeing a pixel art tutorial I had the idea to procedurally generate the things shown in the tutorial. A bit later I thought that I might better turn the procgen techniques into custom brushes.
Waiting for ai to mature and make all the art is taki*snip*


Jayenkai

AGameAWeek Redesign

6th January 2023

Oh no...
So, off to Salford I went for a chat with the neurosurgeon. It's been 2 years since my last scan, and .. although he agreed that given how horrifically the last shunt went, I should probably get frequent scans, we also agreed that, under cu*snip*


Jayenkai

Bad Day

30th December 2022

Good Aunt 1 regularly heads over to Ireland to visit Good Aunt 2. She does this maybe twice a year, and it's nice for Good Aunt 1 to get away. Good Aunt 1 has learning/mental issues since she was in an accident as a child. She's mentally stuck a*snip*

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