Helvetical Fronting
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And it might fry your tongue if you have a CRT ...
@Onyx being stupid story time!
Years ago, when we all still used CRTs, I returned home on a particularly cold day. So I sat down in front of my computer next to a radiator to warm up. The worst part for me are my fingers - always freaking freezing cold. So I put at least my left hand on the radiator as I was clicking away with my right.
I then see a speck of some kind on my monitor. Don't remember what it was; not a smudge, something you can actually remove by poking at it in any case. Ok, I'll just catch it with the tip of my finger...
Ow!
Man, that was a strong static shock. Freaking static. Ok, let me remove that...
OW!
What in the hell...
turns and sees his other hand on the grounded radiator
Oh.
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I do. It's also green monochrome for even more coolness.
Now to figure out how to hook VGA output up to it...
That's obvious: cut the pins for red and blue out of the connector. I see no reason why that would fail.
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That's obvious: cut the pins for red and blue out of the connector.
But which wire do you cut first? Get it wrong and the whole
bombdisplay could blow in your face!
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@OffByOne said:
That's obvious: cut the pins for red and blue out of the connector.
But which wire do you cut first? Get it wrong and the whole
bombdisplay could blow in your face!That's why you should use a MockDisplay and write unit tests first.
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That's obvious: cut the pins for red and blue out of the connector. I see no reason why that would fail.
No such luck - this thing was apparently created before anybody even heard of VGA connectors. It uses a DIN socket, like in C64s.
Not even mentioning things like setting up resolution, proper identification patterns, refresh rate, vsync/hsync and all those things so that the monitor doesn't blow up...
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That's why you should use a MockDisplay and write unit tests first.
I'm sorry, but it's not written in the publicly-available spec which wire cutting leads to an immediate fatal detonation incident. That means it's an integration test…
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@OffByOne said:
That's obvious: cut the pins for red and blue out of the connector. I see no reason why that would fail.
No such luck - this thing was apparently created before anybody even heard of VGA connectors. It uses a DIN socket, like in C64s.
Not even mentioning things like setting up resolution, proper identification patterns, refresh rate, vsync/hsync and all those things so that the monitor doesn't blow up...
I guess I should have put in a or maybe a . It wasn't a serious suggestion.
http://www.ylmart.com/hd15-vga-to-mini-din-8-pin-cable.html suggests that it is possible to convert one pinout to the other.
Resolution, refresh rate, sync settings, ... Yeah, you don't want to mess those up.
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So these days I've just been using plain Eurofurence, 14pt, with tabs that look like 5 spaces. But my VS at home looks really cool, since I used the color theme editor extension to make the whole thing Solarized Dark, and used KyuuBackground to make it look nicer. Pics when I get home!
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@Magus said in Heretical Fronting:
I bet I could program in
or
Damn. Saw those and I tried to clean my screen. (Oh it scrolled, never mind...)
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Here is my current IDE:
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Mentioned on @codinghorror's :
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@aliceif It's not bad, but I'm happy enough with Consolas
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@aliceif Quite a nice looking font, really.
I still like proportional fonts best though :D
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Awkward font.
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Messing around with Fira Code for now. Liking it so far, even if I'd prefer it to be proportional.
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For VS color themes, I usually use Studio Styles. Lots of cool themes there.
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@brisingraerowing Oh, I do too for sure. I just wish there was a place for full editor themes, usable with the addon that fully lets you change the color of VS UI elements.