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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 13 Oct 1997.
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Merlinstein Reveals YOUR LUCKY NUMBER!

Merlinstein Reveals YOUR LUCKY NUMBER!

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 13 Oct 1997
Yet another little interactive 'stein game that I posted on my website.

http://members.aol.com/petecasso
select: Play, Frogstein, Play!
select: Merlinstein Reveals YOUR LUCKY NUMBER!

 I used a new technique for displaying text, it works fine on my Mac, and in
 theory it should also work fine on a Windows box, but I can't verify that
 myself, since I don't have a Windows box.

The captions should display with the system font ("Chicago" for the Mac and
 "System" for Windows) with a font size 14. The system font is the font that
 the computer operating system uses to display the pulldown menus.

I have done that for two reasons. First, to minimize the filesize (since all I
 need to put into the file is the pure ascii info.) And second, to take
 advantage of the font with the best legibility on each individual computing
 platform, which is the very reason for using those particular fonts as _the_
 system font in each individual case. Legibility is obviously very important
 for captions as well, particularly for flashed captions in animations and
 games.

The captions should not linewrap or misbehave in any other way either.

As I alluded to in the above, I have verified that the technique works fine on
 my Mac, but Windows users, please let me know if the captions don't look
 right.

       Thanks and Enjoy!
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(  ^^    'stein cartoons, 'stein games, and more!

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