It's snowing in Amibay...

[Harrison]

Glad "most" of you liked our efforts. I started it snowing yesterday, and you can thank Zetr0 for adding the Christmas additions to the logo.

So on behalf of the Amibay team, I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas... and a Happy Holiday to the humbugs in the USA!

BTW, regarding mobile browsers, you can use the mobile version of the site if you find the snow an issue. As mentioned, it is only on the forum homepage.

 

[Merlin]

I have just noticed, you can steer the direction of the snow with your mouse (not upwards, obviously). Cool!

 

[Templar]

Yes indeed, also the snowfall doesn't disappear immediately when it reaches the bottom of your screen (it just stays there for a while).

 

[Harrison]

Indeed. Glad you like the little additional features of the code.

 

[SONOFPSYGNOSIS]

Snowing!!!

Snowing!!!

Wow, what a relief!! I thought I had floaters!!!!

 

[Kin Hell]

Wow, what a relief!! I thought I had floaters!!!!

Brown floaters means you have fibre in your diet. If you have white floaters m8, you have a real bad problem. :mrgreen:

Kin

 

[jvdbossc]

The snow is very apropiate. zetro his top image is nice as well. Makes me think of google. Might be good idea for other events as well. Stuff like haloween etc is getting more international anyhow.

 

[Phipscube]

Looks great! Although the snow did freak me out for a sec until I realised! Nice one!

 

[Marc]

I thought it was my phone being smart

 

[Templar]

WOW it works even under OWB!

Although snowfall seems to fall like in "slow-motion", and it's really crawls the home page.

 

[Geraldine]

Yes , the snow is nice and yes I do recall certain sites in the 90s doing similar things, but so what, Amibay is a site about retro computers after all.

Was there not a little utility you could put in your startup sequence that would create snow on your workbench? Just a random memory there.. Might have been on an Amiga Format or CU CD?

Also, I do like how some of you have updated your avatars to make them more festive.

 

[Templar]

Geraldine, I too remember that workbench hack of snowing, but I too don't remember in which magazine it was.

I remembered also a Lemmings hack. Few lemmings scattered around the workbench's windows will full collision detection.

 

[StrontiumDog]

http://aminet.net/package/game/gag/SnowFall

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/wbstars2

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/CyberLemmings

http://aminet.net/package/game/gag/LEMonWB100

 

[Templar]

Ah... CyberLemmings... thanx BlankStare.

 

[FOL]

Its snowing here to in wales, 4 or 5 inches in my home town, .

Ontopic, Harrison, can you link me to script? you used?

 

[UberFreak]

Btw, the snow effect causes 100% CPU load on my Firefox (on AMD XP2200+).
Even a C64 can do this effect on its 1Mhz CPU & not even use it all

 

[FOL]

Btw, the snow effect causes 100% CPU load on my Firefox (on AMD XP2200+).
Even a C64 can do this effect on its 1Mhz CPU & not even use it all

Hmmmm,
I have same processors and mines hardly showing any CPU activity, even with my transfering data across my home network and posting on different sites.
Hell I even have StarTrek Online running in the background.

My guess is your GFX card aint great?