bones-corner,
thirdeyemouse,
lolth,
gollum,
fishblob,
ginder,
miet,
dinworld,
nilten,
shpeck,
plastigon,
ninevolt,
hazelsmodusoperandi,
mossonmonitor,
zeta-hero,
flancaramel,
y2kbugz,
ruinacchi,
lavenderclavat,
fragmentary,
strangetowngirl,
nanni-archive,
julieyess,
quartz-decay,
lattematche,
linkieta,
charbl,
youtob,
vizo-web,
cyberdreamz,
ghostii
I'll do another one of these since it's relevant to recent dev work for an upcoming release (spoiler). The favicon: In March 1999, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5, which supported favicons for the first time. Originally, the favicon was a file called favicon.ico placed in the root directory of a website. It was used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks) and next to the URL in the address bar.
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I just saw your book list: so many favorites in here. Ursula K Le Guin was a big influence for W99. I haven't explored all of your work but I'm really enjoying Death Chime. Keep up the fantastic work :]
Today's Did You Know about those 88x31 banners: The size traces back to Netscape’s 1995 Netscape Now! promotion, which rewarded webmasters for displaying an “authorized” browser badge on their site. In the Wayback Machine, the website shows that the button appeared on Netscape’s own site in 1995, and GeoCities picked up these in 1996.
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did you just buy me a coffee??? oh my gosh! thank you if you did! i just got a tip from a user "win99" and an email from stripe. was that you?? gosh im flattered
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hhroses
5 days ago
i really appreciate it T_T<3 i've been a brokie since i lost my main job. thank you so much. <3
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this is killer
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gollum
4 days ago
I did find it!! Love all of it, and CS wouldve been so cool. I wonder how complicated that would be. I imagine pretty complicated haha
Im really digging the atmospheric sound on your site. I had it open in my sea of a million tabs and couldnt find it, but sort of just accepted it :]
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ichomancer
1 week ago
Thanks so much for the kind words! I've been adoring your website for a long while now. It's just honestly such mind-blowing work! Cheers win1999 :)
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Your luhluh_solo3.gif at the top of your page (in the neocities site preview window) kinda looks like the Blind boss from Zelda: A Link to the Past, which gave me flashbacks to trying to beat that boss without the proper weapons.
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dinworld
1 week ago
Wow, it has the same vibe :vv I didn't know this boss, he seems fun. My pink alien "luhluh" is a reference to "Et Bilu" from Brazil, Bilu = Lu Luh and yes...my favorite anime ever: Dragon Ball :333
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This is probably one of the coolest sites I've seen on Neocities! I'm mainly a Mac guy and the only older Windows OS I've ever really used was Windows XP, so it's super cool being able to mess around with 99 in a web browser of all things!
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win1999
1 week ago
Appreciate it. Windows XP is basically the prettiest, but another neocities goat did a fine enough job with that so I'll leave it be :)
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this is so cool... now i can experience playing with a VM without installing one! and the half-life demo?? insane. thanks for the follow :D
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win1999
1 week ago
Thank you! I've basically lived in a barrage of VMs during this development: Chicago, Windows 3.1, 95, Neptune, 98, 2000 and ME. I'm trying to create a user experience where you dont need to boot up an emulator, and envision a parafictional what-if OS where Windows 98 was delayed an extra year to bridge to NT. The new update, which is TBD, will really knock your socks off methinks.
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Aframe question:
Instead of using a heavy physics library (like CANNON.js or ammo.js, which can be super buggy and bloated), I ended up writing a custom collision component attached directly to the player's camera rig. It queries nearby invisible boundary boxes (represented as basic A-Frame boxes with a specific class) and uses basic Axis-Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) intersection math to resolve overlaps by pushing...
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win1999
3 weeks ago
the player back along the axis of least penetration. For fast movement, it switches to a Swept AABB raycast to prevent the camera from clipping/phasing through walls. For complex 3D GLTF models, I have an auto-collision component that waits for the model to load..
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win1999
3 weeks ago
It's far from perfect, and I won't go into the details of how much trial and error there was here.
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oh so THAT'S where that comes from!
wow! fascinating
interesting
s/o netscape
i did not know this! thank you :)
I'm glad to finally know where they came from!