IRC Log - 2025-08-29 - ##forth

Channel: ##forth
Total messages: 37
Time range: 11:01:43 - 23:58:34
Most active: veltas (14), xentrac (13), cleobuline (4)
11:01:43 ##forth <OnASnoopPhone> Can you have graphics in today's OSs in Forth like e.g. x/wayland windowing?
12:20:33 ##forth <cleobuline> postcript is a variant of forth OnASnoopPhone
14:09:30 ##forth <veltas> OnASnoopPhone: Yeah definitely
15:00:39 ##forth <remcycles> VFX Forth has GUI libraries, including GTK. https://www.mpeforth.com/software/pc-systems/vfx-forth-for-linux/#gtk
15:00:45 ##forth <remcycles> I have not used them.
15:11:23 ##forth <xentrac> veltas: do you think you could record a sample session of you using your editor? A friend of mine asked what the experience of using it was like, and I realized that not only don't I know how to do ZX Spectrum emulation, I also don't know how to use the editor
15:11:42 ##forth <xentrac> OBS Studio is probably the most popular software for doing that kind of thing these days
15:11:43 ##forth <veltas> Yeah I was thinking that would be necessary
15:12:03 ##forth <veltas> OBS Studio won't run on my laptop, I think there's something called simple-screen-recorder or something similar that works
15:12:13 ##forth <xentrac> ah, cool
15:12:37 ##forth <xentrac> also OBS is a little slow to get started with because it's targeted at people who stream 12 hours a day rather than new users
15:12:58 ##forth <veltas> I've actually used OBS quite a bit
15:13:12 ##forth <veltas> But it expects your laptop not to be like 30 years old
15:13:17 ##forth <xentrac> yeah
15:13:36 ##forth <xentrac> I've only used it a little bit and so I always forget how to tell it what to record
15:16:04 ##forth <veltas> I used to use OBS to stream live Planetside 2 gameplay
15:16:26 ##forth <veltas> Ironically I'm not sure I'd be allowed to watch that gameplay live now, because I don't have a TV licence and the rules have changed
15:17:02 ##forth <veltas> I also used it to stream church services
15:19:18 ##forth <veltas> Recommend for old PCs: https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
15:20:10 ##forth <veltas> Used that to record this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqgZp-VSgs
15:21:13 ##forth <veltas> If you're just recording text moving around on a screen then the CPU can compress it quite easily on the fly, basically
15:21:19 ##forth <veltas> And the recording size won't be big on disk
15:24:08 ##forth <xentrac> what are the rules?
15:25:31 ##forth <xentrac> that video did come out very nicely
15:25:56 ##forth <veltas> Something about watching "live TV online" and I don't really know how that's meant to be interpreted
15:27:13 ##forth <xentrac> for just text moving around on a screen I've used asciinema, as you've seen before
15:27:24 ##forth <xentrac> but it lacks voiceover, which I think is a real drawback
15:39:50 ##forth <swampman> On some OSes you can use ffmpeg to record your screen and also microphone. It's not perfect, but it works well enough on old hardware (in comparison to OBS at least).
15:41:09 ##forth <swampman> I looked it up, because I thought this would work only on unix-like OSes, but apparently Windows works too if that's what you use.
15:41:42 ##forth <swampman> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop
21:51:25 ##forth <cleobuline> thiss from maccam forth http://patricia.benedetto.free.fr/meditation.gif
22:06:04 ##forth <cleobuline> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/cam8/
22:30:48 ##forth <cleobuline> cellular automata machine
23:55:50 ##forth <xentrac> (from 01995)
23:55:59 ##forth <xentrac> Norman Margolus's thing
23:56:05 ##forth <veltas> xentrac: there you go https://youtu.be/_6w-hjkCi3U
23:58:34 ##forth <xentrac> well, 01994 really: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/cam8/latest.html