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i don't know, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on here. deviantart is a very different place that no longer seems to have categories? wtf!


how do you know there's a new pack out?

u.g.l.y. edits zero
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hello from 2022

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you good?

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So, it's been a while since I last posted here and I don't even know if anyone of my old friends and followers will even get the chance to read this post. I don't plan to go into the details of the last 10+ years. Life just happened, as they say.


However, for a couple of months some old AVS people have been hanging out in various chats and we have now found a new home on Discord. As you might have heard – there has been a bit of buzz – Jordan Eldredge's has reimplemented Winamp 2 in JavaScript. This project is know as Webamp, and includes a collaboration with the Internet Archive. Together the two also host the Winamp Skin Museum. Through all this, we got into touch with Jordan and have our own #avs channel on Discord. We primarily talk about the development of a new AVS version by @grandchild, but also about other, related projects such as now-abandoned Webvs. Either way, if you're interested or think you can contribute to one of these projects, feel invited to join us there.


https://discord.gg/FECUBU2N


Hope to see you there!

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Alright, so here we are in late 2013. About ten years ago visbot was founded, and if my memory serves me well, the first release came out in February or March 2003. We had a bunch of shabby websites from early on, some revisions can still be viewed on Wayback Machine. Throughout the years, the layout changed a couple of times and so did the backend. But for a group of people busy in the visual field, our website had all been remarkably text-based. Sure, we had screenshots here on DevianArt, or on Customize, Winamp and some other sites that are long gone. It was possibly difficult for outsiders to get an idea of our craft, but that is about to change!

As of today, a first public beta of the new visbot.net is online. Not only do we feature video previews for most of the bigger packs (more to come!), it's also easier to find the content your looking for. We currently serve way over 300 releases and therefor introduce an intuitive filter system (hat-tip to nemoorange for amazing JQuery plug-ins). You can also choose between bundled downloads and browsing for individual presets for most of our releases. There's still some work ahead of us (search, more filters!), but we think the new site offers a much greater experience than that old text-list of ours. We hope you like it as much as we do and are looking forward to hear your feedback!

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As a follow-up to the provocatively titled End of AVS, here are some good news. Thanks to moonbeam13 and the deviantart developers, it is now possible to upload .pimp files to the visualization galleries. This is probably the best results for both sides: AVS artists can still distribute an installable format while DeviantArt does not have to worry about corrupted executables.

Now, what does this mean for AVS artists? You might not have known, but for several years, PimpBot has produced two files:

1. an installer for distribution (.exe)
2. a project file (.pimp)

These project files contain all the data for the installer and can be loaded to (re)build an executable file. However, you can also install directly from a project file using PimpBot Runtime. That runtime has been part of the PimpBot distribution for years and it's also available as a single download. By default, these files are stored in a folder called "My PimpBot Files" (inside My Documents or maybe your DropBox folder.)

In future, you can upload these files to DeviantArt without running into problems. This also comes with two advantages:

1. acts like a standard installer through PimpBot RunTime
2. suspicious natures can simply use their unpacker to get to the content without having to install extra software

If you have any questions, feel free to post them here!
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