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outintospace · 0 points · 0 comments · 16 de jul.

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release happen, I am not the original developer. That is DJ Kurlander, and he was very supportive of this project. He was even enthusiastic about it.

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NDlurker16 de jul.

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

csans-cstrip17 de jul.

Thanks for this. I love the work that individuals have been putting into open sourcing historical Microsoft products. I notice there are two (identical) copies of the Comic Sans .ttf in the repo; are they also covered by the terms of the MIT license? According to “otfinfo -i”, they’re an older version than the one typically packaged on Linux (https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts...). Do you think you could swing an official release of the latest and/or historical versions of Comic Sans under MIT or another appropriate license like SIL OFL?

resonanttoe17 de jul.

Really nice work! This is so very very cool. Comic chat was a phenomenal pain in the arse in the 90s for any IRC channel :P But it's still such a great and important piece of IRC history as a whole. It's amazing cool to see it open sourced and preserved this way. It's amazing to see people do a tonne of work to get things like this and 3D Movie Maker - open sourced. I'd never thought I'd see the day!

compass_copium16 de jul.

Amazing timing, Jerkcity hits 10,000 strips in like two weeks.

timbroddin20 de jul.

Thanks so much for this! This really brought some nostalgic tears in my eyes. I asked Fable to create a Mac port this weekend: - https://github.com/TimBroddin/comic-chat-macos - Write-up: https://broddin.be/bringing-microsoft-comic-chat-to-the-mac-...