Max Glenister

UX Design, UI Design & Front-end Development. Technically a cyborg.

Dithering in Colour

Inspired by multiple posts on dithering, I set out to create a correct implementation of Atkinson dithering with support for RGB colour palettes. The post also outlines implementing linearising the colour-space and correcting for human perception.

PuTTY’s icon designs date from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They’ve never had a major stylistic redesign, but over the years, the icons have had to be re-rendered under various constraints, which made for a technical challenge as well.

Iconography of the PuTTY tools

Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs · eieio.games

What should you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I ran pong in mine.

Q2DOS - Quake II for MS-DOS

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Game Bub, an open-source FPGA based retro emulation handheld, with support for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games.

Game Bub: open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

I’m excited to announce the project I’ve been working on for the last year and a half: Game Bub, an open-source FPGA based retro emulation handheld, with support for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. Play Video: Game Bub can play physical cartridges, as well as emulated cartridges using ROM files loaded from a microSD card. Game Bub also supports the Game Link Cable in both GB and GBA modes for multiplayer games. I designed the hardware with a number of bonus features, like video out (HDMI) via a custom dock, a rumble motor, real-time clock (for certain games). Additionally, the hardware is designed with extensibility in mind, allowing future software improvements to expand its capabilities.

NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It's easy to get started with, and has a useful set of libraries for making your first — or hundredth — NES game.

NESFab

RetroFab by Itizso

Handheld electronic game simulations

Five coding hats

HTML Whitespace is Broken - Devel without a Cause

A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.

Restoring an oldish iMac 18,3 (mid-2017) that had been previously been running Windows 10 via Bootcamp for the last 8 years.

Some useful commands:

You can identify the serial number of the Mac from the recovery terminal (hold cmd+R while booting to get to recovery):

ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep Serial

To get hold of the most up to date recovery/installer that the machine supports (Ventura).

brew install python3 qemu
git clone [email protected]:DrDonk/recoveryOS.git
python3 recovery-vmdk.py

Don't bother with converting the dmg to a vmdk or anything, just write the dmg to a USB:

sudo /usr/sbin/asr restore --source ventura.dmg --target /Volumes/UNTITLED --erase -noverify

Boot the USB and then to reinstate the Fusion drive setup, (before starting the install)

diskutil resetFusion

Then install 🚀

Home | Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive

This is great!

I've personally settled on a Pixel Watch and GlucoDataHandler to get data from my CGM to my wrist.

Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch

Documenting an attempt to build a single-purpose smartwatch.

GitHub - pachi81/GlucoDataHandler: GDH receives data from various sources and visualizes it clearly on your Android smartphone, smartwatch (Wear OS, Miband, and Amazfit) and in your car (Android Auto).

GDH receives data from various sources and visualizes it clearly on your Android smartphone, smartwatch (Wear OS, Miband, and Amazfit) and in your car (Android Auto). - pachi81/GlucoDataHandler

The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web - Maxime Heckel's Blog

A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work.

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Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back

Eight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble

Max Glenisterpublished this 28 January 2025

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@omgmog this is incredibly exciting.
If the hardware is anything like the unreleased Time2 it's a day one from me. I'd still be using my Time Steel if it provided the fitness features I now use.

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cs16.css

CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.

An analysis of the colors used in Mario game titles

Most Mario games with polygonal logos have a different color per letter, but the sequence of colors in Mario’s name is rarely the same sequence across games.

The Most Mario Colors

Some awesome fabrication on this custom DMG!

Pokemon PureRed / PureBlue / PureGreen: A purist's enhancement of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green based on the pokered decompilation.

GitHub - Vortyne/pureRGB: Pokemon PureRed / PureBlue / PureGreen: A purist's enhancement of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green based on the pokered decompilation.

Pokemon PureRed / PureBlue / PureGreen: A purist's enhancement of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green based on the pokered decompilation. - Vortyne/pureRGB

DOOM: The Gallery Experience by bobatealee

An artistic parody of the ultimate classic

DOOM® CAPTCHA

Prove you're human by playing DOOM

The Cody Computer is an 8-bit home computer intended to be built as a DIY project.

The Cody Computer Site

Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing’s NES emulator

While looking for ways to activate the developer menus left over in Animal Crossing, including the NES emulator game selection menu, I found an interesting feature that exists in the original game that was always active, but never used by Nintendo. In addition to the NES/Famicom games that can be obtained in-game, it was possible to load new NES games from the memory card. I was also able to find a way to exploit this ROM loader to patch custom code and data into the game, allowing for code execution via the memory card.