Requiem for the G1

The handset itself, I have to say, has exceeded my expectations. Everyone thought that this thing was going to fall apart. The sliding screen had everyone rattled, but mine is still as springy and snappy as the day I bought it. The keyboard, which some people didn’t like, I have always found comfortable, though I’ll be the first to admit that the chin does get in the way; you can tell a pro G1 user by the lopsided thumb-work. It’s also one of the few phones that can stand on its head, though I only discovered this a month ago:

farewell old friend... time for an iphone methinks...

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

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"Mark's scenes are actually Amiga IFF / ILBM files, originally created with Deluxe Paint in DOS. Ah, those were the days! So, to make this work, I had to write a converter program which parses the files and extracts the pixels, the palette colors, and all the cycling information, and writes it out as something JavaScript can understand"

Immediate flash back to Atari ST gaming, marvelling at the 'animation'. This is exactly the kind of pointless activity there should be more of!