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[Creator]

That GIF sure is nice!

[gollark8]

It seems oddly like OpenComputers.

[MKlegoman357]

Not saying that it is the same project, but this does look familiar.

[oeed]

MKlegoman357, on 30 September 2015 - 02:19 PM, said:

Not saying that it is the same project, but this does look familiar.

It's hard to tell whether he's trolling us to pieces with a massive red herring or it's actually a real standalone framework.

I can't tell which one I'd like more though to be honest, standalone would be awesome as long as we can also run on OS X/Windows/etc. too. Presumably this means it'll be much faster too.

[クデル]

There's a lot of effort and thought gone into this, considering the amount Dan's released in regards to "leaks" which may potentially unrelated. For all we know he was just playing around in a modified emulator, and enjoying random lines.

For all we know, Dan is apart of Hydra and once this thread meets an acceptable level of hype, kaboom. RIP Oceania.

Edited by EsKreme, 01 October 2015 - 10:26 AM.

[Creator]

Or he is laughing himself to death right now seeing how w are trying to guess what he is doing.

[LeDark Lua]

Creator, on 01 October 2015 - 06:20 PM, said:

Or he is laughing himself to death right now seeing how w are trying to guess what he is doing.

Hmmmm, I think its true...

[oeed]

That said, his account hasn't been on the forums since July. So unless he's made another account, which seems a little crazy, it's probably less likely. Although, that said he could just read without logging in... didn't think of that actually.

[Waitdev_]

or, just sign in anonymously.

[CraftedCart]

"Approaching Usability"
Also scroll bars and underlining, and a quit button in the top right
https://twitter.com/...360669833986048

Edited by CraftedCart, 03 October 2015 - 07:21 PM.

[MKlegoman357]

".lml" - Lua Markup Language? Looks very interesting.

[CraftedCart]

MKlegoman357, on 03 October 2015 - 07:35 PM, said:

".lml" - Lua Markup Language? Looks very interesting.

I didn't know that stood for that, I just assumed Dan made up an extention

[MKlegoman357]

CraftedCart, on 03 October 2015 - 07:41 PM, said:

I didn't know that stood for that, I just assumed Dan made up an extention

I'm just speculating here

[oeed]

Well then.

That's very promising for Silica. As we'd hoped, it's not just a font. Time to figure out this screen size...

Based on some slightly iffy measuring in Photoshop (the image was scaled so pixels weren't clearly defined) I believe the screen resolution is 280 x 175. We guessed 310 x 175 for Silica, so looking good so far.

Edited by oeed, 04 October 2015 - 01:00 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

oeed, on 04 October 2015 - 12:47 AM, said:

Based on some slightly iffy measuring in Photoshop (the image was scaled so pixels weren't clearly defined) I believe the screen resolution is 280 x 175. We guessed 310 x 175 for Silica, so looking good so far.

Assuming you're talking about this image, the characters are 8x8, so the original would've either been 320x200 or some scale of that.

Who knows, might even be good ol' mode 13h!

[oeed]

Bomb Bloke, on 04 October 2015 - 02:50 AM, said:

oeed, on 04 October 2015 - 12:47 AM, said:

Based on some slightly iffy measuring in Photoshop (the image was scaled so pixels weren't clearly defined) I believe the screen resolution is 280 x 175. We guessed 310 x 175 for Silica, so looking good so far.

Assuming you're talking about this image, the characters are 8x8, so the original would've either been 320x200 or some scale of that.

Who knows, might even be good ol' mode 13h!

Mmmmm, I count 7 x 7.


Also, he's at least pointing to this not being Minecraft.



He also doesn't seem entirely sure what this is himself. May he could get some community input *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*



So yeah, Dan, if you are reading this, here are my ideas.

Making it standalone like that R-Pi screenshot somewhat suggested would be very, very useful for many people and cases, provided that you also had an identical desktop version. That's certainly a big project, but you're giving people the next step to expand their coding knowledge from beyond an emulator to quite literally a fully fledged operating system. Removing the unnecessarily complicated backend stuff of low-level coding and providing the simple front end APIs (maybe with a little more complexity) from ComputerCraft to basically make real world ComputerCraft computers would be pretty damn cool.

Edited by oeed, 04 October 2015 - 03:14 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

oeed, on 04 October 2015 - 03:03 AM, said:

Mmmmm, I count 7 x 7.

Nah.

oeed, on 04 October 2015 - 03:03 AM, said:

Also, he's at least pointing to this not being Minecraft.

... it's a screenshot referencing CraftOS... an OS that's from a certain Minecraft mod, and named after Minecraft itself.

Come on, Dan, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then you know full well what you're "saying" with them.

Edited by Bomb Bloke, 10 February 2016 - 11:24 PM.

[oeed]

Bomb Bloke, on 04 October 2015 - 03:27 AM, said:

Nah.

Huh, well there you go, more pixels for us then!

[Creator]

This is so cool. Maybe he'll be releasing it soon, because that would motivate me to code again.

[FUNCTION MAN!]

If you need motivation, you ain't doing it right.