Happy…uh, almost half way to the new year (Pt. 4)

I’ll blame graduate school and a teaching day job for this delay to Part 4 of my series of long update posts. Productive, engaging, and helpful as they are, they also sapped time away from writing blog posts. Yet there was plenty of time to draw!

On the sunny side, I’m also going on holiday very soon, and so here comes a lot of things done this year before I hop to that. Maybe I’ll turn this to a travel blog as well whilst I’m out. XD

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After 14 months in development, hopefully it will – nah, it isn’t quite worth it. Still!

Yes. I am aware that I did not post in over a year on my own site. GJ me.

But, on the other hand, I did decide to keep it running, rather than digress to the mere figments of Twitter posts and Google Sites and so on. I may not keep my own site in best order, but having my own site feels more rewarding and kinda fulfils an adolescent ideal that came out of the 00s.

I will be posting my works from July 2020 to now in a later post, but will first go full blog mode and say a few things to reflect on the past while.
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MockVirus.DOS.LESANAE

I'd have to wonder - does it append GRAPHICS.COM so that it is no longer 19742 bytes?
All we’re missing is a shoddy PC speaker rendition of her theme song. Oh wait, one exists now!

DISCLAIMER: I do not condone any use of this image in the creation of actual malware. This was done purely as a joke on another community I frequent, and only exists in the form of a text mode-style image done in modern editing software.

As for the text mode, I used EGA-style 80×25 resolution with 8×14 font size, which is also what the classic text-mode game ZZT uses.

As an added bonus, a close contact of mine has portrayed it onto his CRT monitor, where the proper old-school 4:3 aspect ratio is achieved with little artefacting or digital filtering.

“…LESANAE infects COM files, so let’s take a look at our old friend GRAPHICS.COM, which is usually 19742 bytes….”

This is a thing now?

It is, in my opinion, very delayed, but this has been accomplished at last. I suppose I should place some work here to commemorate this feat. But that will have to come later.