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atariforce · 5 months

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Retro Game Spotlight 095: Dalek Attack (1992)

Publisher: Alternative Software Platform: Atari ST Designers: Roger Hulley, Richard Turner

Trivia: Based on the British TV series Doctor Who, most versions of Dalek Attack let the player choose between playing as the Second, Fourth or Seventh Doctor.

#Atari #Atari ST #Alternative Software #Doctor Who #Dalek Attack #video games #retro gaming #retro computing #Roger Hulley #Richard Turner #Retro Game Spotlight

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gillianthecat · 1 year

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openoffice is a free word processor!

Thank you anon! This is very helpful. 🙏

Their website is openoffice.org

So now I know of two two options for free open source programs, this and LibreOffice. It looks like both branched off from the same open source roots about a decade ago, according to wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org. And both include the same suite of programs as MS Office, including a word processor (Writer) and a spreadsheet program (Calc), which are the ones I’m most interested in.

Here’s an article I found comparing the two: itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/ (It’s just what showed up at the top of my search, so I make no claims about its accuracy.)

#tumblr people are so helpful #perhaps this info will be useful to someone else as well #alternative software #openoffice #libreoffice #technology #anon asks #my questions answered

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bobbietables · 6 months

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10 Best FREE Adobe Software Alternatives (2023)

#video #software #alternative software #Youtube

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kirshd · 10 months

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Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems the only thing Adobe offers aside from what's in a lot of -ahem- FREE software, is allegedly a processing system for the advanced features of it's exclusive format, a few tricks that actually use your graphics card to calculate some color variance on larger images, NFT support, and a mandated update cycle that could "accidentally" stop supporting a part of your hardware leaving you without your software until you buy some new hardware (the Windows method).

Just from my minimal scroungings, Krita works for drawings (and partly animations), Gimp works (for general images and photos, GIFs too allegedly), for the vector graphics crowd there's Inkscape. All three are free and work on a laptop as far back as 2009. No yearly subscription, no need for latest greatest hardware, and it's the opensource community so if your tablet misbehaves there is a community to help you get it behaving. (If all else fails, bribe your tablet with something sweet.)

#no adobe #opensource #alternative software #krita #inkscape #made with gimp #freeware

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the960writers · 27 days

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Alternatives to google docs

For various reasons, this is now a hot topic. I'm putting my favorites here, please add more in your reblogs. I'm not pointing to Microsoft Word because I hate it.

Local on your computer:

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LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/), Win, Linux, Mac.

Looks like early 2000 Word, works great, imports all formats. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.

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FocusWriter (https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/) Win, Linux.

Super customizable to make it look pretty, all toolbars hide to be as non-distracting as possible. Can make typewriter sounds as you type, and you can set daily wordcount goals. Saves in OpenDocumentFormat. Combine with something like Dropbox for Cloud Backup.

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Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) Win, Mac, iOS

The lovechild of so many writers. Too many things to fiddle with for me, but I'm sure someone else can sing its praises. You can put the database folder into a Dropbox folder for cloud saving (but make sure to always close the program before shutting down).

Web-based:

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Reedsy bookeditor (https://reedsy.com/write-a-book) Browser based, works on Firefox on Android. Be aware that they also have a TOS that forbids pornography on publicly shared documents.

My current writing program. Just enough features to be helpful, not so many that I start fiddling. Writing is chapter based, exports to docx, epub, pdf. You can share chapters (for beta reading) with other people registered at Reedsy.

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Novelpad (https://novelpad.co/) Browser based.

Looks very promising, there's a youtuber with really informative videos about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHN8TnwjG1g). I wanted to love it, but the editor didn't work on Firefox on my phone. It might now, but I'm reluctant to switch again.

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So, this is my list. Please add more suggestions in reblogs.

#writing software #writing tools #gdocs #gdocs alternatives #google docs #libreoffice #focuswriter #scrivener #reedsy editor #novelpad

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3dsangel · 3 months

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shoutouts to this animation i was making back in march .. there was supposed to be more happening but i was making this in Clip studio paint . it is so annoying to try and make stuff like this in that program 😭

#youre better off if its like. only a few frames and you want it to look painted ... youre just torturing yourself if youre gonna make...#somethingthat requires tweening in this program . if you have an alternative software on hand #my objects #miiblr #mii #tomodachi life #elm #moonstruck

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kithvyy · 5 months

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wkisses · 4 months

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#1977   𝓜oodbs and 𝓜ore    

. ❁્᭄͜͡ ⑅ ˚๑ 。 ℒ𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝗇𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝗂𝖽𝖽𝗅𝖾 𝗈𝖿 ㅤ I loved ㅤ ⠀ 𓇻𓈒ㅤㅤ⠀ 草莓 ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏ ͏͏͏⋆ *ೃ ▗▬̸̎͞/̄͆̅ ̎ ̎̿͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ι̚━─ ஊ ވ౿ !! 🕷. 𔘓ㅤ ˖ ࣪⊹ 𓂂 ࿐ ۫ ִ

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haenxn · 1 day

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♡⃟͚̊♱ ͙۪۪ ͙۪۪ ͙۪۪ ܆ ㅤ❤︎ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ*ㅤㅤ𔒛⠀ ҉ ⎯⎯╾ㅤ܆ @yeossemble

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sincerely-sofie · 2 months

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Hey, y'all remember me saying I made a tiny TPiaG visual novel?

You can download it now from Itch.io here!

Have fun and enjoy my first official adventure into posting my games!

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 6 months

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hi !! first of all, absolutely love your art, especially how you draw barnaby !!

i was wondering what kind of tablet you used for drawing ?? i've been trying to research tablets but so far haven't come up with any 100% possibilities

thanks so much :D !!

i use an ipad... not sure what generation! 8th maybe! i remember seeing an 8!

#but there are lots of other - probably better - alternatives #id only get ipad if you're striving for procreate!#i kind of regret it but yk.. procreate Is a pretty good software #rambles from the bog #& Thank You!

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atariforce · 5 months

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#Atari #Atari ST #Alternative Software #Doctor Who #Dalek Attack #Sylvester McCoy #gif #video games #retro gaming #retro computing

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gillianthecat · 1 year

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What pdf reader do you use?

I just use adobe acrobat, or let whichever browser i'm using open the pdf. Or on my ipad I think there's a native pdf reader/maker? I don't do anything active about it, to be honest, just follow the path of least resistance.

Do you have any suggestions for a better one?

In the past I have used GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, found at www.gimp.org) as a free alternative to Photoshop, but I haven't needed it in several years so I don't know what it's like these days.

#technology #alternative software #pdf readers #anon asks #asks answered

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xenocorner · 1 month

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To all my comic fans, enjoyers, appreciators if you will:

Who are some comic artists that you really like? As in, their visual style. And why?

I’m mostly looking for Marvel/DC, focusing on line art/proportions. I wanna study some people and try out things they do, so if anyone has someone in mind you really like, bring em on :D

#if I don’t make it in the video games/splash art industry well #might as well look for alternatives and make portfolio for that #inking seems to be looking like a good path #this is one of those days when I deeply regret not sticking to my software engineering degree and ditching it in favor my art degree #siiiiiiiighs #studying other people is cool too though!

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retrocgads · 1 month

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UK 1987

#UK1987 #ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE LTD.#ACTION #STRATEGY #SPORTS #CRICKET #SPECTRUM #C16 #ELECTRON #PHEENIX #HENRY'S HOARD #HOWZAT!#NIGHT STRIKE

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viv-ribbon · 9 months

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tweet about how chrome is a performance hog that's killing adblockers and harvests all of your data and how its high marketshare (which is the result of anti-competitive/monopolistic practices, especially with android) allows google to uncritically invent and decide new web standards on its own because Everything Is Chrome including implementing fun new ways for ads to track you even if you disable cookies/etc: 154 rts, 704 likes

tweet that says "i hate google but you'd have to put a gun to my head before i ever switched to FIREFOX": 40,582 rts, 84,293 likes

#theres this weird internet culture where you're seen as aloof and badass and get a lot of likes #for pointing out how much you hate a website or piece of software and how it sucks #but continuing to uncritically use and give it higher marketshare/money anyway #like everyone who refuses to leave twitter because they want to “go down with the ship”#like wow you're so cool. can you go outside #i get for a lot of stuff like discord there isnt really a good alternative but for chrome?? come on

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