Color Spy 3.0!!! I found it!

Holy crap, I knew I had to have a back up copy of this program lying around somewhere! I actually use it all the time. I found a copy on a backup disk for my CS635 (Advanced Graphics class) files. I guess I was using it for one of my assignments. Woo! I’m actually really glad I found it. You can download it here:

http://www.patorjk.com/downloads/colorspy30.zip

I may do some updates to it. If you have any suggestions just let me know. Also, I initially tried to find a copy online, but I wasn’t able to. I did find some German guy recommending it though:

http://www.faqboard.info/printthread.php?tid=1510

Makes me feel kind of cool that someone way across the globe was using and recommending my program.

New program to appear this Friday

I’m starting to feel a little bad about always promising that stuff is coming, and then never posting anything up :P. However, this Friday, come hell or high water, I will be posting up something new. It wont be finished, but it will be usable and near completion. Here are some tidbits about it:

– It will be an online application, programmed in PHP and Javascript.
– It will mostly be for entertainment / fun, though it will have applications in Ascii Art.
– I originally had the idea back in 2000, but decided against making it because I saw it had been done. However, after thinking a bit, I decided that it’s pointless to try and make something 100% original. So I looked at the existing app and thought to myself “could I make something that was better?”, and I decided that I could so I started programming it up.
– It will be open source, but not until I’m done.

Right now I have something I could post up, but I hope to make a few updates before Friday. Tuesday I get to see Al Gore talk (he’s coming to UMBC and doing that global warming talk he does) and on Wednesday I’m seeing Spiderman. So I probably wont get a whole lot done, but even if I posted what I have now it’d still be a mostly complete application.