Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by vector_spaces » Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

Microsoft Comic Chat
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by angrydev » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 1:29 AM UTC

For anyone interested in the CarTalk collab, I found a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywCgivT_no

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by mike_d » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 1:33 AM UTC

If you'd like to play around with it you can still find downloads by Goolging "mschat25.exe"

Here is a proxy script that will allow you to connect to a modern IRC server: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15

Edit: another fun read was the methods for getting third party IRC clients to connect to MSN's IRC servers directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Chat

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by thom » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 1:36 AM UTC

I sometimes feel sad because I think of Comic Chat as that dreadful thing that vomited nonsense into IRC channels. But my kids would absolutely love this, and tech should always have space for playfulness.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by volkadav » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 1:57 AM UTC

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by codesushi42 » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:17 AM UTC

And now we have been blessed with VR chat more than 20 years later.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by webwielder2 » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:32 AM UTC

Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program)

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by sterkekoffie » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:34 AM UTC

volkadav wrote: post #5

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

Out of the loop, anyone know when/why Jerkcity became BoneQuest?

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by statico » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:37 AM UTC

I reimplemented the comic-drawing algorithm in Ruby almost 15 years ago because I wanted to make my own daily comic based on our IRC chats. It turned out that I wasn’t as funny as I thought.

Source and artwork is available here: https://github.com/statico/spittoon

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by jszymborski » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:38 AM UTC

volkadav wrote: post #5

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

What am I missing... these all seem like non-sequiters.