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Toaster 0.4.17

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@StopBanning StopBanning released this 24 Oct 22:36

The eye, a new scene; a Mac download; and no more black windows while things get ready.

  • The eye (A in the scenery). A real eye, drawn in glyphs, looks out at you and blinks now and then. On a drop (D) the view glides into its pupil, which opens onto space: Hubble's photos of the Whirlpool galaxy and Saturn, drawn in glyphs like the eye. Eight bars later (four in a slow song) it comes back out.
  • A Mac download. Every release now has Toaster-<version>-mac-universal.zip, one app for Intel and Apple silicon. It isn't signed by Apple, so the first time open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Toaster and click Open Anyway. It asks to record system audio; allow it, that's how it hears what's playing.
  • No black window while things get ready. The worlds, the chrome and the spectrogram now show the same field of glyphs as the scenery while they compile, then decode in. The spectrogram no longer holds the window up the first time.
  • The worlds get ready in about half the time the first time after an update. On this PC, 26.6 s became 11.9 s, with every look's picture unchanged.
  • 9:16 lets go of the window. Leaving the vertical layout (L) always gives the window back its old shape.

Windows: if you have 0.3.9 or later, Toaster offers this update by itself. Otherwise:

  1. Download Toaster-0.4.17-win-x64.zip.
  2. Unzip it anywhere and double-click Toaster.exe.
  3. The first time, Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the app isn't signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Mac: download Toaster-0.4.17-mac-universal.zip (it's built and added here a few minutes after the release), unzip it and drag Toaster into Applications.

In a browser: toaster.locust.lol, nothing to install.