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by pietromenna 1773 days ago
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
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hjek 1773 days ago
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.
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bentpins 1773 days ago
You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?
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dragonwriter 1773 days ago
> I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?

Depends on the monitor; I think ones existed with anywhere from 1-8 bits.

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pietromenna 1773 days ago
It allows to see. I just tested on chrome dev tools. What it does not to is set the filling as it worked on the original app. Anyways, really nice memories. I was a child (6 yo) when I first touched those. Thanks for the hint to play with CSS. :-)
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