Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven Mrgan

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103 points·davidcann··19 comments

Needs to become an item inside Minecraft.

Can someone throw light as to how this is done? It seems to use the native Safari app, unless I am wrong.

It uses WebKit rebuilt with 8-bit png image assets, combined with the PixelMix font[1] and what appears to be a custom library called 'Pixelifier'[2]. Very clever.

[1] http://www.dafont.com/pixelmix.font [2] (Examined package contents and found 'PixelifierDynamic.dylib')

Adorable. Some folks on the team were sad that it does not pixellate videos (yet?).

Why don't you just use Dillo. :P

That reminds me of the good old 80s, when URLs were 8+3, web pages were scripted in GW-BASIC, and we spent our youthful evenings in Space Quest Online.

Would love a version of Safari that looks like it came from a Vectrex, too (think Tempest).

Finally I find something I want to use with Geocities but, alas, I am too late.

low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.

It launched but almost instantly crashed.

Are you running on a 64-bit computer? That might be too many bits; try running on an 8-bit machine.

Or open 8 more copies, that should be enough bits right?

7 more.

I thought it would be 8 times faster instead

Using a 32bit OS? Crashes on my 2006 Core-Duo MBP too.

I have a 2006 Core Duo MBP also. Running file on the binary produces this:

Pixelfari: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Guess I'll have to find a 64-bit Mac so that I can play with it.

Yeah, same here. But it did open and stay alive on the third launch, probably some initialization issue.

Same here, worked second time fine.

Not every idea is a good one.

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