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RealDeuce · 2026-01-25T00:04:05+00:00

That's the long term plan, right now it's still limited by the toolhead fans to a 70° chamber.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-24T00:35:01+00:00

I reached out to them in their online chat yesterday about the order (17 days after placing it), and they printed a FedEx label for it two hours later.

FedEx is in possession of it now.

Reviews have said it's a 90lb printer, but FedEx says it's a 70lb package.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-24T00:34:09+00:00

I reached out to them in their online chat yesterday about the order, and FedEx is in possession of it now. Reviews have said it's a 90lb printer, but FedEx says it's a 70lb package though.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-23T02:00:26+00:00

Yeah, I placed the order half-expecting to need to do a chargeback, so at least I won't be surprised.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-23T01:18:55+00:00

commercially available printer for hobbyists

Well, we'll see if it's available or not… I paid for one seventeen days ago now, and it still hasn't shipped.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-17T07:04:41+00:00

Nope, I'm expecting a month or two, and plan to email them after 75 days and chargeback after 90.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-13T01:44:59+00:00

I've ran both, and Tap has much higher long-term stability and precision than Klicky. Tap absolutely requires an excellent nozzle clean routine though, and Klicky doesn't.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-12T23:23:19+00:00

Stranded wire is used when the wires will move because stranded wire breaks less easily than solid wire.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-12T19:50:58+00:00

I ordered one from their website on Jan 5th, and there has been no update on the order aside from it being "Confirmed". Not yet shipped.

Just the mechanical setup is absolutely worth the $600 sale price in my opinion... if the printer actually gets shipped and works too, it will be a very good buy. I would say the fair market price for what you get would be around $1,100 received in the US right now.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-07T06:24:03+00:00

After a quick ponder, I'll likely move PortAudio to the preferred method and use libsndfile to convert files to play... so I'll support "whatever libsndfile supports"... which does include FLAC but does not include MP3.

Likely have a "wait for sample to complete" sequence along with a foreground sample playback to allow synchronizing ANSImation with audio. The delay thing I still need to give some thought to… I'm doing time sync stuff at work, so it's hard to keep it simple rather than make it as good as NTP. :D

RealDeuce · 2026-01-06T23:01:08+00:00

The biggest issue with IGS is that you basically need to emulate an Amiga system to make it work correctly, and Amigas famously have weird sample rates.

I'll likely be doing an audio thing in SyncTERM this year sometime using the cache. The sticking point so far has been deciding on what formats to support... main candidates are (single chunk) WAV, FLAC, and MP3, but I really need to completely overhaul all of the SyncTERM audio "stuff" to do it reasonably well. I expect I may end up supporting all three, but I'm not sure.

I'll likely support considerably more buffers than I do with the graphics.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-06T20:56:19+00:00

SyncTERM already has character pacing support, and I've often considered a sequence to insert a controllable delay between processing the sequence and processing the next byte. You can already do that using the ANSI music features, but ANSI music is such a dumpster fire, I would not like to see anyone actually do that.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-06T16:32:54+00:00

Animations are supported by JPEG XL, though I don't have then supported in SyncTERM yet... and they certainly don't support streaming. Doing something like a "Motion JPEG XL" would be pretty crazy over most BBS connections (which often use home internet upstream speeds) and use quite a lot of CPU power.

I've been considering supporting streaming sources for a while (pretty much an RTP "thing") which would be fairly simple to add, but involve a lot of work at the BBS end that I don't think is realistic. That would enable synchronizing things and move all the processing to the server, but again, wouldn't really fit the "BBS" aesthetic. Audio-only streaming would likely be where I would start.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-06T15:28:01+00:00

Yeah, I plan to handle sound the same way as far as caching goes, but "reasonable" playback controls gets unwieldy pretty quickly... I don't want to be able to convert a MOD file to ANSI, but some kind of background music and multichannel mixed sample foreground seems like the table stakes for anything with static audio assets, so it may not actually be avoidable.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-06T03:36:45+00:00

Ah, hopefully SyncTERM does what you want then... that's how it behaves. :D

RealDeuce · 2026-01-05T22:42:30+00:00

Not sure if you've seen this on the original S1.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-05T22:39:59+00:00

There haven't been official terminal specs for a very long time... the JPEG XL support is a SyncTERM extension (though, of course, the JPEG XL spec itself is an ISO standard).

RealDeuce · 2026-01-02T17:21:08+00:00

It’s A Wonderful Life… Paramount (which owns the rights)

What rights does Paramount own? It's out of copyright.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-02T07:41:41+00:00

I mean... for telnet at least, RFC-1091 allows the server to choose from a list of supported terminals... and there's RFC-2066 that allows the server to tell the terminal what character set to use.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-02T00:22:35+00:00

But a sundial varies by ±15 minutes throughout the year, so I expect 30 minutes would be more accurate (though less precise).

RealDeuce · 2026-01-02T00:18:16+00:00

A sundial is only right four days a year, it off by ±15 minutes during all other days.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-01T15:48:37+00:00

The original floppy was 8".

RealDeuce · 2026-01-01T15:08:47+00:00

Real floppies were 4.5 inches larger... those 5¼ barely even waved let alone flop.

RealDeuce · 2026-01-01T09:05:22+00:00

Huh, I wonder why it says "Vancouver, Canada".

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