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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by dole » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 3:38 PM 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

not to mention some of the jerkcity founders are now high level directors in major SV corps. gaze upon their works and agluhalguhalggalughalguhaluhgalguh

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by daniel_warner » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

ncmncm wrote: post #19

Jim Woodring deserves way, way more attention from geeks than he gets.

Agreed. The fact that they chose his style to incorporate into the UI is incredible... I wonder what artist would be his analog if this was created today.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by pssflops » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

vyrotek wrote: post #23

Someone should make a /comic command for Slack which turns the last N messages into a comic.

There are some rather clever Discord bots with this capability and I relish in it.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by jandrese » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC

bbrazil wrote: post #32

codesushi42 wrote: post #6

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

They had that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_V-Chat

I remember those late 90s VR chat apps. None of them figured out the controls, usually opting for some sort of awkward three knob style navigation widgets. Interface was via browser widget so it barely worked on every platform. Everybody wanted to make Neuromancer's Other Plane, but the tech wasn't even close to ready.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by dkonofalski » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 8:53 PM UTC

spoppy wrote: post #40

HeckFeck wrote: post #35

There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…

Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. http://songsmith.ms/ https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

This is what I initially thought of but that doesn't sound like what the OP is describing.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by mzs » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

mherdeg wrote: post #54

sterkekoffie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It happened in the first half of 2018 (between March and May). Kind of baffling. Without having talked to them, my assumption is that a Florida area Jamaican restaurant reached out to them and said "hi, we're called Jerk City, can we have your web address? we'll give you $100" and they thought this was hilarious and said yes.

heh, probably

https://goo.gl/maps/YrvSa877j7eicZR36

https://www.jerkcity.com/restaurant/

Interestingly the old comics redirect to bonequest correctly:

http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity472.html

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by Fjolsvith » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 4:43 AM UTC

thunderwow wrote: post #43

HeckFeck wrote: post #35

There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…

Microsoft Music Producer: http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346

I downloaded it but had to do the patching on my 32 bit Windows 10 computer. Once I had patched, I was able to copy the program to my 64 bit machine and run it.

I've bought so many old MSDN CD sets off Ebay looking for this program. Thanks!