Subj : Re: Sixels
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Mar 25 2024 14:08:00

-=> Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-

 NR> On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:32:34 -0400
 NR> "Warpslide" (21:3/110) <Warpslide@f110.n3.z21.fidonet> wrote:

 > On 19 Mar 2024, AKAcastor said the following...
 >
 >  AK> I connected to your BBS to take a look, and on my first call was
 >  AK> greeted with a wonderful sixel graphic in your login screen.
 >  AK> Very nice!  I reconnected a few more times and saw some of your
 >  AK> other login screens, I like the variety.
 >
 > I wasn't really aware of this being a "thing" so I logged into
 > Nigel's BBS to have a look:
 >
 > https://ibb.co/3mLzvNk
 >
 > This is very cool!  I'm going to have to play with this a bit now...

 NR> You won't get a sixel image every time. There's a mix of sixel
 NR> and ansi images for supported terminals. Non sixel type terminals
 NR> will just get the ansi login.

Just an additional note - that behavior is if you have the "Random" 
option set in the DDMatrix config file.  It can be set to a specific 
sixel login that will come up every time.



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