Reviving 1990's Digital Dress-Up Dolls with Smooch
summary
KiSS is an open 1991 specification with a custom cell image format and KCF palette swapping that enabled tiny shared dolls; artifacts are bundled with LHA and extended by F KiSS for animation and sound. Smooch parses CNF with Haskell (parsec), converts cells to PNG (netpbm or JuicyPixels), serves JSON, and renders in vanilla JavaScript using a ghost canvas click map for precise drag‑and‑drop. FKISS1 scripting is implemented including timers (which prove finicky) and the viewer works for common dolls.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:10KCF Palette Format
- 5:19LHA Compression
- 5:581994: KISS General Specification
- 12:37Unique features
- 15:27Open specification
- 16:03What Smooch does
- 17:26Handling the doll upload
- 18:06Parsing the configuration file
- 19:30Test-driven development
- 21:27Putting the pieces together
- 27:38Rendering the Doll
- 29:10Solution: GHOST canvas
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