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Lately someone worked it out how to connect it to a modern PC. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/7936/3722
I just realized such plotters can be useful in many cool applications (eg diy pcb). Where can I get hold of one for cheap?
I just realized such plotters can be useful in many cool applications (eg diy pcb). Where can I get hold of one for cheap?
That hashtag (plottertwitter) is one of the few exciting, non-hateful things left on Twitter. Great stuff.
The memories of the game and the subsequent rise and then the fall (if you want to call it that) of it. Does anybody have any updates on the developer and the game?
Actually, it’s Friday, let’s post it!
I love these devices, though they're expensive to run. We used the large-format HP pen plotters for various large software analysis&design diagrams, and for keeping huge project management charts posted. On the side, I wrote an optimizer that would take an HP-GL file and optimize for pen travel (shorten time spent between pen-up and pen-down positions for various graphics operations) and for pen changes.
This is really neat. If you got a large-format X-Y pen plotter, you could get it to play D&D, exploring a large dungeon map, having skirmishes, etc. This would be even better with a flatbed plotter, rather than a rolling one. I love these devices, though they're expensive to run. We used the large-format HP pen plotters for various large software analysis&design diagrams, and for keeping huge project management chart…
The pens are expensive? Or they use some special paper? Or they wear through some component like belts? What's the expensive bit?
This is really neat. If you got a large-format X-Y pen plotter, you could get it to play D&D, exploring a large dungeon map, having skirmishes, etc. This would be even better with a flatbed plotter, rather than a rolling one. I love these devices, though they're expensive to run. We used the large-format HP pen plotters for various large software analysis&design diagrams, and for keeping huge project management chart…
> though they're expensive to run The pens are expensive? Or they use some special paper? Or they wear through some component like belts? What's the expensive bit?