On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, danisanti wrote:

CBXRZBA

That's right on!

Pika pika....

Hahaha,
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025, vort3 wrote:

NPR NGGBEARL

The verdict is yours being a correct answer.

I didn't read all your hints and letters that are in the anwer
and did not check SHA256, but this ASCII art is well done
and totally looks like

Thank you. Nice to know that the character I drawn remained
very recognizable despite me not being very familiar
with the in-game artworks.

I never played this game and probably spelled the title wrong,
but I've seen this guy a lot on youtube and I think this is what
the game is called, unless my memory is playing tricks on me.

Yeah, like I said in the original challenge post, I have never played
this game as well; I have come to know it from various fan arts
and fan comics; including the "slash" ones...

And since you mentioned YouTube, let me interrupt your vidwalking spree
with this (not-so-)randomness:

Johnny's West, "Life is Wonderful" (Ace Attorney anime OP2)
arrange ver. Jonathan Parecki, English version feat. Zoozbuh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRa4dBpJWos
https://inv.nadeko.de/watch?v=CRa4dBpJWos

^ I also originally used the artwork in this video (apparently
an official poster) as a reference when drawing this entry.

Anyway, which program you're using for making full-justification
text alignment in your post? Is it your newsreader, or you used
{T,N,G}roff for that?

Cheers,
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 14:03:51 +0700 (+07)
xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

Anyway, which program you're using for making full-justification
text alignment in your post? Is it your newsreader, or you used
{T,N,G}roff for that?

I'm using `par` with -j option. IIRC it also supports adjusting width with -w
option, so I think -j -w80 is what I use. I don't remember exactly, but I set up
an action in my mail/news client, and bound it to a hotkey, I just select text
(otherwise it applies to whole body AFAIK) and press Ctrl+J (for "justlify"),
and my client pipes the selection to par -j -w80 and pipes the result back into
message body. Handy!

Claws-Mail is what I'm currently using.

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On 30 Oct 2025, ant wrote:

CVCR QERNZ

Finally! That's correct.

uggcf://nepuvir.bet/qrgnvyf/jva3_CvcrQe3k

Thanks for the link. Finger-crossed about a chance it would run
on WINE though.

Cheers,
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xwindows:

uggcf://nepuvir.bet/qrgnvyf/jva3_CvcrQe3k

Thanks for the link. Finger-crossed about a chance it would run
on WINE though.

It is reported to run in plain DOSBox, it really ought to run in
DOSBox-X, and (hold your breath) it runs natviely on my
Windows XP: <https://files.catbox.moe/zmggid.png> .

which is a tremendous advantage of my OS over the rest.
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025, xwindows wrote:

uggcf://nepuvir.bet/qrgnvyf/jva3_CvcrQe3k

Thanks for the link. Finger-crossed about a chance it would run
on WINE though.

I just tested now, it does run and is playable on WINE 1.6.2
(set to Windows 3.1 ABI compability), here are screenshots
at a level 1 ending:

https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2025-11-22/pipedream-level1end.png https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2025-11-22/pipedream-level1end.full.png

(The top-right and window icon's background are white here for some reason)

Side note for others reading: I'm running this on a 32-bit GNU/Linux system with kernel Linux 3.2.0-- kernel version predating a 16-bit regression. [1]
I didn't keep track about whether that regression got fixed later on
or was left permanently broken; so be aware that your mileage may vary
if you are using newer/worse kernel version.

Oh, and this doesn't seem to require setting `sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0`
for it to work, which means one step less was needed. It also seems to work when WINE's ABI compatibility was left as Windows XP (default) too,
so the `winecfg` step might not even be needed at all.

Warning: This game is simple but can be addictive. It also only allows
"saving" (by jotting down level password) once after multiple levels
had passed; so beware that you might waste hours and hours of your life
trying to beat this game, haha.

Cheers,
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[1] https://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-3-14-Breaks-Wine-for-16-bit-Windows-Applications-447273.shtml
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xwindows:

uggcf://nepuvir.bet/qrgnvyf/jva3_CvcrQe3k

Thanks for the link. Finger-crossed about a chance it would run
on WINE though.

I just tested now, it does run and is playable on WINE
1.6.2 (set to Windows 3.1 ABI compability)

Congratulations. I learned the hard way that WINE
requires x86 libraries to run x86 Windows programs. Now
that FreeBSD has abandoned x86 starting from v.15, WINE
is crippled there. Another way to run Win 3.x programs
is via DOSBox-X,

https://dosbox-x.com/

here are screenshots at a level 1 ending: https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2025-11-22/pipedream-level1end.png https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2025-11-22/pipedream-level1end.full.

I like your GUI, and the way your terminal IRC client
looks it, almost like a GUI program. Sadly, too few
program have that heathy look nowadays, but on my Winows
XP with the classic theme some still do.

Side note for others reading: I'm running this on a
32-bit GNU/Linux system with kernel Linux
3.2.0 -- kernel version predating a 16-bit regression.

Regression is the right word. And now there is the
32-bit regression on FreeBSD. I wonder how costly is
the contued support of older architectures? The are
fixed, dead, finished, and do not evolve. Why not keep
a passive support of them?

Oh, and this doesn't seem to require setting `sysctl
-w vm.mmap_min_addr=0` for it to work, which means one
step less was needed. It also seems to work when
WINE's ABI compatibility was left as Windows XP
(default) too, so the `winecfg` step might not even be
needed at all.

The game works on XP.
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