Kid Pix as a JavaScript App • Hacker News Board

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by Octopodes » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

what is the legality of this website? I don't see anything indicating that it's an official port.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by hjek » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

pietromenna wrote: post #32

Wow! Many many many memories from the past. The bad part is I only used on Black/White Display in the past and now is in colors

Yea, grew up on B/W Kidpix. In this JS clone, some of the effects are also less pixelated, especially the fractals / mandalas. "Broken Glass" and "Wrap Around" gives me errors as well. It's not 100% perfect clone but it's amazing and the code is beautiful, performant, concise vanilla JS.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by nkingsy » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

Avshalom wrote: post #36

wombat-man wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gotta hit the eraser and use the dynamite! But I guess if you hadn't used kid pix you might not know that.

unfortunately I can't seem to freeze the dynamite.

yeah I seem to remember being able to make it stay on the screen if you start another action.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by mwcampbell » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

vikrum wrote: post #33

alexives wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like an earlier version of this by the same author. https://github.com/vikrum/kiddopaint vs https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Good catch! Yep, I forked my old paint app. It didn't have any animations, sound handling, etc. I hope everyone is having as much fun with it as I had in making it!

I'm guessing the new name is a trademark lawsuit waiting to happen. From what I read on Wikipedia, it doesn't look like Kid Pix is abandonware.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by hjek » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #35

Many times I have wanted the Oh No! undo and the Dynamite in my IDE.

Now I wanna find out if I add those sounds to `u` and `ggdG` in vim.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

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Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

WoodenChair wrote: post #8

A similar project: https://kiddopaint.com

There's also KidPix 1.0 for DOS available (and playable online through an emulator) at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/KID_PIX_DOS

They also host downloadable later versions of KidPix but AFAIK those are not playable in the browser.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by 1--6zVa-E » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #39

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #38

Is it weird that I feel like I've never heard of this app? I mean, I was around late 80s/90s but I dunno....what platform/years are the core of this? Here's some other retrospective from recent: The creative legacy of Kid Pix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563615

ohhh, was it mainly a Mac thing? PC-focus over here. Still think I would have heard of it

It was on the Windows desktops in my schools.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by gregsadetsky » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

There's a beautiful mini documentary with Craig Hickman, the creator of Kid Pix, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csalhuSixQU

It's by Jeffrey Alan Scudder aka Whistlegraph aka HN's own justanothersys. His fantastic No Paint (very much in the spirit of Kid Pix) was discussed here a ~year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23546706

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by MrKristopher » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

I like it. I think it's missing the option to increase the stamp sizes though?

What I really liked about Kid Pix was the ability to make animations through the slideshow mode. You could put together up to 100 pictures in a slideshow and set the time per slide to < 1 second to create animations.