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screenshot added by Dbug on 2016-07-17 14:04:32
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release date : july 2016
release party : Solskogen 2016
compo : wild demo
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added on the 2016-07-17 14:04:31 by Dbug Dbug

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added on the 2016-07-17 14:33:05 by Dbug Dbug
this was amazing on the stream
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 14:36:42 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
By the way, I added the source code in the NFO if you want to check how this thing is programmed :)

Some information: You switch the printer to "graphic" mode by sending the code 18, back to text with the code 17.

In graphic mode you use some prefixed commands to do things:
I -> Set the origin point
H -> Go back to the origin
Sn -> Set the character size (from 0 to 63)
Cn -> Set the color (from 0 to 3)
Ln -> Set the line type (from 0 for full to 15 for dashed)
M, D, R, J -> Used to move or draw in relative or absolute coordinates

The printer has a 0.2mm accuracy on 480 "pixels" in width on the paper, and all the move commands accept coordinates in the -999 to +999 range.

And yes it's slow as a snail, it needs to move the carriage to the left hand side to access the barrel selector gear to select the next color.

I did not really try to optimize pen movements, ideally one should do a short path computing algorithm starting with black, then switch to blue, then green and finally red :)
added on the 2016-07-17 14:42:49 by Dbug Dbug
lol
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 15:04:37 by SiR SiR
Yes!
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 15:18:10 by FreeFull FreeFull
like
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 15:24:44 by frog frog
so rad!
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 15:30:40 by ferris ferris
this is the future of the demoscene \o/
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 15:48:52 by fra fra
LOL :)
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 16:31:55 by wbcbz7 wbcbz7
:)
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 17:05:36 by Frequent Frequent
It was enjoyable on the videostream.
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 21:11:36 by ham ham
More like this!!
rulez added on the 2016-07-19 02:51:30 by response response
The cup of coffee is sure an important coding tool!
rulez added on the 2016-07-20 16:41:01 by baah baah
Baah: I'm glad somebody noticed :)
added on the 2016-07-20 23:31:18 by Dbug Dbug
Cool :) And yes, no $c0de without $c0ff33!
rulez added on the 2016-07-20 23:35:47 by StingRay StingRay
I think this is a bit too slow to be really interesting. Also, next time, you should probably make thicker lines, because it was really hard to see anything on the bigscreen. :-)
added on the 2016-07-21 23:28:39 by Sesse Sesse
Doubling the lines would have make it twice as slow :)
added on the 2016-07-21 23:36:17 by Dbug Dbug
oldschool computer screen technologies here.
rulez added on the 2016-07-21 23:49:54 by lvd lvd
WTF?! ;-)
Crazy stuff! Like it!
rulez added on the 2017-08-07 22:50:06 by Daniel Daniel
nice

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