Maybe you need to have some sort of objective before you get started, otherwise yeah, you don't have much to do in the console :) In my case I only use linux for work, so I'm ssh-ing away and running commands to compile this, apply that, show me the logs for this, grep that, etc.
fibojoly
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That's just a layout. Let's not confuse presentation with content.
That would work better if Latin wasn't there before English. Mars Victor!
Oh man! This is some brilliant trickery, haha! I love those. Back in the day, though, there was scant few sources of info so most people would rediscover this sort of stuff on their own, unless part of some group like the demo scene. Wish I could have read this sort of article back then...
VGA let's you pick a palette of 256 colours out of 262144, which is because the RGB components were actually on 6bit, not the full 8bit we would come to expect later. The 320x200 resolution would also be a sore point for artists and that's how you ended with quite a few games sticking to the EGA palette and using dithering to simulate more colours while using a superior resolution (640x480, or was it 800x600?). I've some vivid memories of Cobra Mission for example, or the Commander Keen saga.
Hercules used to play in 720 x 400 or thereabouts.
And that CGA palette looks wrong to me, haha. All the games I ever saw were either cyan magenta black and white, or black red green yellow. First time I see a mix like this.
Oh that's reassuring, I thought maybe it was just because I'm using it on Huawei.
Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I'm not a purist. As long as it's properly designed for this I'm happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!
Haha, very true! But I'm not a Buddhist. It's a gift from one of my former colleagues in China who gave it to me as a good luck charm.
I got a wonderful Buddhist hanging charm for my car with a nice big 卍 (wàn) on it and you better believe I don't give a fig what people are gonna think about that!
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+1 for Atuin. I constantly use it on my machine and SSH-ing on remote machines who don't have it is an absolute pain.
I'm gonna have to save this thread and check some of those!