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Astralsparv
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Joined October 23, 2025
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@zep seems that theres a ..., usually for when theres no thing loaded but its never updating?
idk how that ... entry works correctly but i feel this is wrong
The wiki is now listed on the Picotron Resources page!!
I've updated the BBS post (where it links to) with some information on other frontends (like Inuchat), and where to find the repository.
I'm genuinely so thankful to @zep@mastodon.social for this; I'm really happy to have done something worthwhile like this.
this is now making me realise i should get my bbs name changed to Astralsparv with this now being listed on the resources page, if you'd be so kind as to do the honours zep!
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@zep@mastodon.social oh no.. more to document....
sounds really cool; i just worry how development will be if you have to use up your family/friend invites on an alt account for testing
part of me so bad wants to make my fantasy OS 720x405 or 720x540... but big screen == big sprites and stuff...
my piSpace page!!
i need me some blinkies [if you don't know what a blinkie is i am judging you <3]
https://astralsparv.github.io/Picotron-Wiki/
Wiki search engine has been upgraded to a full on web viewer!
The Sparrow Workstation font is in progress!
The font editor isn't the best; and needs some updates to get support for variable width fonts; but me oh my progress is swell!
Published some information on the Sparrow Workstation OS on a public github repository. A discord server has also been setup for it!
The Sparrow Workstation OS is going well.
I now have a process loop & rendering of a window manager.
Annoyingly; the window manager doesn't really do anything except fill the screen with a random color since I think I'll need to implement userdata for the wm to draw other processes. Scary.
struggling here, making a fantasy workstation inspired by picotron (i really don't want it to be a copy/clone of picotron, want to try make it unique with its own stuff) but I'm just trying to get a basis right now.
does anyone have any information on how fantasy workstations like this work, process-wise?
no idea how i should be handling it to be multi-process (since i need to be able to read data between processes) or if it should be in one process
no idea how picotron does it, either
Made an isometric engine and a world generation system.
Many, many thanks to the entire Picotron Community for teaching me new Picotron stuff and dealing with my, immense, stupidity.
Planning on learning color tables next!
