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Frobnicate - the missing ones
The Frobnicate collection is now complete and available to be read in the PDF viewer of your choice!
Following a mention on the ROOL forums, I decided to dig up the remaining issues of Frobnicate (12b to 19) and convert them to PDF.
In order to make things work better, most of the images have been converted to JPEG (as the PostScript driver does insane things with many sprites). This was pretty simple given RISC OS' superior and correct implementation of drag'n'drop. I could 'save' a picture directly from the Ovation document to ChangeFSI (for conversion to JPEG), and then 'save' it from the ChangeFSI preview right back into the document. A few twiddles where necessary, and job done.
No alteration has been made to the text of the issues. Given that this stuff is twenty years old, don't expect email addresses or URLs to be valid. And as for my Fidonet address, that was great fun but it was a great long time ago...
As is usual, there's a lot of rubbish that could have been omitted, a bunch of outdated things, and so on. But it is what it was. Don't judge it too harshly, okay? ;-)
What's so great about Acorn computers?, RiscOS 4?, iomega zip, Diary of a hacker...
(note that the RISC OS 4 mentioned here is not ROLtd's incarnation, but what some may have liked to see in Phoebe's new RISC OS)
Diary of a hacker, C backtrace, Diary of a hacker, LCD modules, and the results of the only Frobnicate awards ever...
(and, no, Microsoft never ever responded to my emails asking for a comment on how much their operating system (Windows 95/98) was hated! ☺)
Sources/software/info to accompany issues 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19.
There you go. 162 pages to complete the collection. If you're lucky you might get that lot printed using one regular sized overpriced tri-colour ink cartridge...
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Zerosquare, 3rd October 2018, 07:10
Great news! I think I'll try reading it on my e-book reader, I wonder how it will look.
Gavin Wraith, 3rd October 2018, 15:19
Small typo on https://www.heyrick.co.uk/frobnicate/m3.html . I think "issue 20" should be "issue 22".
Hello, 5th October 2018, 06:25
Great! I think this is the best news since issue 31.
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