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I managed to extract the animation from the winworldpc.com download of Netscape Communicator with an easy ritual of: binwalk -e cc32d48.exe cd _cc32d48
by akx 3y ago
I managed to extract the animation from the winworldpc.com download of Netscape Communicator with an easy ritual of:
binwalk -e cc32d48.exe
cd _cc32d48.exe.extracted
unshieldv3 extract comm.z comm
python extract_images.py --ico --png -d ns/ ~/Downloads/Netscape/_cc32d48.exe.extracted/comm/program/*.dll --continue-on-errors
where `extract_images.py` is from my https://github.com/akx/res-extract https://github.com/akx/res-extract project (once upon a time someone needed the Excel 95 icons, and I obliged).
However, they're just 32x32 frames, not the glorious 60x60 from the article:
https://i.imgur.com/sXcEEDU.png https://i.imgur.com/sXcEEDU.png
- nonethewiser 3y agoThe actual image is almost impossible to see on the imgur page on mobile. Not a complaint against you in anyway, it just looks absurd. Massive Futurama add on top, some other promoted content below, and about 3% of the screen is the specific image for that page. Obviously because the picture height is only 30px.
- miah_ 3y agoFirefox Mobile allows you to use addons, so you can Ublock Origin your way to an ad-free mobile experience.
- account42 3y agoYou're still going to get redirected from the image to a javascript-heavy page. Better to get people to stop using imgur - if them showing they don't care about preservation by deleting all images not associated with an account recently wasn't reason enough.
- reaperducer 3y agoThe actual image is almost impossible to see on the imgur page on mobile. It's only 13K. I wonder how many HN comments it would take to post the image as BASE64 USENET-style.
- dredmorbius 3y agoUse a pastebin instead.
- rainycoconut 3y ago[dead]
- cubefox 3y agoMobile imgur is really bad. It doesn't allow hotlinking, has a lot of annoying ads and other content, sometimes automatic quality degradation, and at one point they even hijacked the back button. We should just use something like abload.de or similar.
- aimor 3y agoWell now I want to know how many versions of the meteor animation there were. Here's the animation of just the loop (frame 1 excluded) https://i.ibb.co/DMDBR7L/Netscape-Communicator-Meteor-Loop.gif https://i.ibb.co/DMDBR7L/Netscape-Communicator-Meteor-Loop.g...
- gregschlom 3y ago> once upon a time someone needed the Excel 95 icons, and I obliged May I introduce you to reshacker.exe: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ Spent a lot of time as a teen using it to change windows graphics. (E.g. the image shown when loading windows or shutting down the PC). Fun times
- akx 3y agoSure, I think I used a version of it back in the day too - but I wanted something cross-platform and batch capable ;)
- account42 3y agoThere's https://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/ https://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/ Also MinGW's windres might be able to do it (it can add and copy resources from .exe files at least).
- qrio2 3y agowow I forgot about this. I used this to "break" the cyber-patrol filtering app on my pc so that I could get my parents to uninstall it lol.
- jrmg 3y agoYou do mention it, but to draw it out for those who might not notice the naming: this is a later, fancier, more colorful version from Netscape _Communicator_ (‘Netscape 4’), which had a more golden hued, more ‘detailed’ UI. The article discusses the animation from Netscape _Navigator_, probably version 3 (‘Netscape 3’). Navigator: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=netscape+navigator&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=netscape+navigator&t=h_&iar=images... Communicator: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=netscape+communicator&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=netscape+communicator&t=h_&iar=ima...
- akx 3y agoYeah, probably need to track down a Netscape 3 download and do the same ritual to it.