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[SquidDev]

I can't tell if that is unicode or just normal ASCII. There looked like there were some non-ASCII characters there, but it was hard to tell. It will be interesting to see some new UIs make use of this. I wonder if it will be advance computer only though?

I guess it might just be a custom font, this was linked to from a suggestion a while back...as
This was the original suggestion, and this was the new one. Very excited!

Edited by SquidDev, 18 April 2015 - 03:24 PM.

[Bomb Bloke]

There are swords and skulls in there, so it's definitely not ASCII, or even code page 437 (which is probably the most common extended set). Likewise, Unicode wouldn't have creeper faces in it.

One this that gets me is that in order to render that sort of thing, CC would either need to be able to define custom characters on the fly, or it'd need to be able to handle characters outside of the standard ASCII range. The latter seems most likely to me, and it suggests a certain long-standing bug may've been sorted out perhaps?

[MKlegoman357]

I'd say the character set could be just an extended current ASCII to 256 characters. One thing that seems non-CC is that pixels in the gif are squares, not rectangles as in CC.

[SquidDev]

I also count 17 pixels high, whereas a normal computer has 19. Maybe something to do with this 'brand new secret project', though it definitely looks Minecraft related.

Edited by SquidDev, 18 April 2015 - 04:22 PM.

[TheOddByte]

I didn't think this would be added, but now that I've seen that tweet I'm extremely excited!
I have to check out twitter more often! xP

[Agent Silence]

Square Pixels
Besides that, the characters could work like stencils in OpenBlocks.
If they did, it would be amazing.

Edited by Requiem of Silence, 18 April 2015 - 05:24 PM.

[CrazedProgrammer]

Aww yiss can't wait to make some ASCII art

[Dav999_NL]

This looks surprisingly similar to something I've seen before:


(imagine characters changing here as well)

[Creator]

Is there any doubt if it in CC, or it just something to give us false hopes? If yes, imagine the possibilities:
1) square pixels (luckily all my programs,at least fileX, use term.getSize() and not hardcoded values)
2) Acsii graphics insert cool meme that guy who is running with his hands over his head/ behind him

[Bomb Bloke]

Dav999_NL, on 18 April 2015 - 11:18 PM, said:

This looks surprisingly similar to something I've seen before:

Now that's Unicode. Still, the resemblance is uncanny.

Creator, on 18 April 2015 - 11:36 PM, said:

Is there any doubt if it in CC, or it just something to give us false hopes? If yes, imagine the possibilities:

It may be that it's unrelated to ComputerCraft. Certainly I hadn't noticed that the aspect ratio was off.

Maybe it's a new kinda of "monitor" or something? I really dunno.

[nitrogenfingers]

Two things I noticed in that video:
- The colour palette is about the same as CC's
- There's a CC turtle character, a rectangle with a slit near the top



But that's just speculation...

Edited by nitrogenfingers, 22 April 2015 - 05:02 AM.

[Lupus590]

floppy disk icon at the top left too (see nirtogenfingers screenshot above)

[wieselkatze]

Also there is a sword char:


And much more obvious a creeper character:

[Cranium]

this would be VERY nice to see in CC. To me, it looks like a modified version of some character set that is games-specific. I see things like humans, pac-man(and ghosts), bombs, a dog, what looks like a gravestone, something like a goomba, half of a Space Invader, skulls, and of course, what you guys have noticed.

I'd love to see even a small portion of this in ComputerCraft.

EDIT: Oh, and what looks like a "slime" enemy

Edited by Cranium, 22 April 2015 - 07:29 PM.

[Wojbie]

Text based old-school (text-based old) standalone console adventure game?

[MKlegoman357]

wojbie, on 22 April 2015 - 08:27 PM, said:

Text based old-school (text-based old) standalone console adventure game?

Looks like you might be right.

For those who don't read Dan's twitter, he's making a secret project, his next game. So it seems that it's not a CC font extension after all.

Edited by MKlegoman357, 03 May 2015 - 07:52 PM.

[Bomb Bloke]

The partial implementation of Lua 5.2 into the CC beta + the MineCraft-based glyphs have had me thinking "ComputerCraft 2" is in the works.

Whatever it is, he appears to be running a lightly modified version of ComputerCraft's worm script on it.

[MKlegoman357]

Maybe Dan is creating a standalone CC-based game?

[Bomb Bloke]

The MineCraft-themed symbols make me think otherwise, but... it's perfectly possible!

Adding in eg something like the interface from CCEdu would differentiate it from every other CC "emulator" out there.

[Slackratchet]

Now I want Dwarf Fortress running on a monitor in my base.