Comment by giancarlostoro
19 days ago
Reminded me a teenie tiny bit of the original font used by Habbo Hotel Volter (Goldfish) which has a rough pixel look to it (at least that's how my nostalgia makes me see it) they got rid of the Volter font when Habbo upgraded from Adobe Shockwave to Adobe Flash, they went to Ubuntu font if I remember correctly. I still miss the old font.
My favorite thing about Habbo's font from back in 2001 is the "emojis" that it had. If you played Habbo back then, you were likely using emojis before they were cool. ;)
That editor is really cool; you can even see the font change live on the left!
Also reminiscent of CNC router fonts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190397
I had hopes I could find an answer to https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41048/are-there-an... in this rabbit hole.
Not yet.
Thank you for sending me into a Habbo Hotel rabbit hole of nostalgia! They have a classic mode apparently, which is even on Steam now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3809900/Habbo_Hotel_Origi...
Yeah, that is recent, they have had Origins out for over a year. Friends of mine were indirectly involved in what lead to Origins being a thing. Someone discovered you can just run Shockwave as a standalone executable. The developer leading the efforts for Origins was also iconic in the Habbo reverse engineering scene, where players would recreate the back-end server. He was known as Myrax back then. ;)
I was one of those scene-kids. Some Java guy joined the IRC channel saw what we had coded, swore bloody mercy and then rewrote it as a lesson to us.
I lost the archive on an old hard-drive however the scene still limps along. C# and Java were the main languages used.
https://forum.ragezone.com/community/habbo-hotel.282/
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Reminds me of Teletext, the BBC Micro’s mode 7, and Bedstead https://bjh21.me.uk/bedstead/