(I mean, yeas. I can actually edit photos. It's slow, but I can convert a jpg or a png down to an appropriate resolution bitmap and edit it in MS-Paint.
If I *need* to produce a graphic on my zinestation, I can totally do it! I do desktop publishing on it, with clipart, all the time.
But I'm not going to take a picture, load it in to a photo editor, and make adjustments to it, or even really have a good way to view it. That would be absurd right?
(I have a sony Mavica. I have a floppy drive for my zinestation. I can take a photo on the mavica and open it in a dedicated photo editor on the zinestation 486 and edit it just fine, and it works very well and is a pleasant experience aside from the fact that it's a monochrome screen and it's a little on the slow side. I can totally edit photos on this thing, as long as I adjust my definition of photo down to something that it can handle. And that's the point. It's all tricks.)
But still, video editing is right out, right? No one was Producing videos on a 486?
This is actually not true! The #zinestation486 will run Theatrix hollywood, which is a silly animation program. It's not a great experience, but I can Produce video on this hardware. This is also a trick!
Theatrix hollywood is actually a really neat little piece of fake animation software. There were others too! Most of the rest of them were mostly used for GIFs, but you could do something bigger if you really wanted! You just have to adjust your expectations to the limitations of the hardware and software with which you are working. It's all tricks.
But computers are tricks, and I think that will become more apparent as I continue this thread.)
It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so
It's time to talk about my pet project.
Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486
and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)
Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.
MY PRINTER IS HERE
AND MY OMNIBOOK 425 / #ZineStation486 is here.
But I have to work for at least another 3 hours, and I don't wanna!
I want to play with my new toys.
This is my #ZineStation486 thread, about how I'm going to build a #ZineStation.
I'll be talking more about this in the coming days. :-)
And when I get home, I have an omnibook 425 waiting for me, and maybe even a dot matrix printer.
So I'm going to start working on the #ZineStation486 tomorrow.
Once I have it running, I'll get the meta first issue together (how to zineStation486) and start working on incorporating half an hour of writing back in to my daily routine.
This makes me feel better.
Andrew (Television Executive)