Playscii

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• Playscii 9.17.1b - Windows 7 compatibility restored
  May 11, 2021 by JP LeBreton

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  9.17.1b is a new Windows build that should restore compatibility with Windows 7, as it uses Python 3.8 instead of Python 3.9... Continue reading
• Playscii 9.17.1
  January 22, 2021 by JP LeBreton

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  Fixed: changing a document to a tall character set makes it so you can't pan all the way to the bottom of the document until restarting the application. Updated Windows and macOS builds to Python 3.9... Continue reading
• Playscii 9.17
  November 02, 2020 by JP LeBreton

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  Added a new "2 color bitmap image" importer that converts to a black and white palette without using foreground-background color swaps. Ideal for producing art that can be exported to plaintext and dr... Continue reading

  
• Playscii 9.16.3
  September 14, 2020 by JP LeBreton

  ATASCII (Atari 8-bit computer ASCII equivalent) importer and exporter for use in emulators and original hardware. Thanks Steve Boswell for the initial request and patient technical help. A few small d... Continue reading

  
• Playscii 9.16.2 - hotfix for image export
  February 13, 2020 by JP LeBreton

  This build fixes an error with image exporting from Art Mode that would cause the export to fail and the UI screen to become glitched... Continue reading
• Playscii 9.16.1 - Wildflowers hotfixes
  February 05, 2020 by JP LeBreton

  This build contains a few minor fixes for Wildflowers: Fix some symmetry issues with flower generation. Auto-hide the edit UI when starting wildflowers. Pressing the E key saves the current flower to... Continue reading
• Playscii 9.16 - Wildflowers
  February 02, 2020 by JP LeBreton

  Playscii 9.16 adds a new example application / software toy called Wildflowers. Open it via the Game menu in Game Mode and it will generate a unique, colorful "flower" each day based on the your syste... Continue reading

  
• Playscii 9.15
  January 12, 2020 by JP LeBreton

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  New version numbering scheme! This is not a major feature release accounting for 8.235 (?) releases' worth of progress - it's simply because Playscii is now 5 years old and any notion of a 1.0 "it's d... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.14
  December 01, 2019 by JP LeBreton

  properly support all numpad key input in numpad on vs off states; treat numpad arrow keys as interchangeable with navigation arrow keys make application a little better behaved when no art is loaded i... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.13
  November 25, 2019 by JP LeBreton

  Added @lunlumo_art's "osamu-micro" character set to built-in charsets library. Game Mode: SpriteRenderables should remember their source image's filename just in case it's useful later. Game Mode: tin... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.12
  February 19, 2019 by JP LeBreton

  This is a minor release with a few small fixes: - Fix to avoid a crash creating new document directories on Windows due to case-insensitivity. - TXT export: use utf-8 encoding instead of allowing OS d... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.11
  October 29, 2018 by JP LeBreton

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  Art Mode: Give a useful error instead of crashing if user tries to export an image larger than their hardware's max supported texture size. Log the max supported texture size on startup. Fixed art lay... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.10
  May 31, 2018 by JP LeBreton

  fixed bad behavior selecting text and select tools from popup tools tab - select clicks outside popup didn't register! fixed grab tool not working in non-"quick grab" usage... Continue reading
• Playscii 0.9.9
  May 29, 2018 by JP LeBreton

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  Art Mode: Horizontal/vertical flip operation for Art documents added Macintosh II color palette Game Mode improvements: Fireplace example game, with documentation added GameWorld.pause_music and GameW... Continue reading