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 		Also, all the front of the postcards indicate "No playing at your local Arcade"
Another Flynns at CC2010?

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 		Dang! Missed all this kicking off! Suddenly looking forward to checking my post this week.

EDIT - @AgentLex - anything I can do to help get any potential postcards to you and your new address?
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 		Too funny, booba!

I loved how Gomez pulled LIT cigars out of his pocket, too.

I have a binary interpretation spreadsheet that has around 100 encodings on its "5-bit" sheet, including all of the ones from that last link, so, I think we're covered, there. It has the few 6-bit encodings I'm aware of as well on another sheet. But, honestly, I don't believe the puzzle uses either one of these methods. PS: If anyone's truly aware of any 5-bit "gray codes", I'd be interested in seeing them.
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Ok, so I crossreferenced my image with Bruce's, and I found quite a few scaling issues. So I went through and individually matched the image thru scaling a bit better. The PSD and XCF I linked to on page 4 are now updated, including the original images as layers so people can investigate the overlay.

Anyway, here's my corrected image:


Astro Gunner still has overlapping pixels with 2 of the others, but the other 3 no longer overlap at all. So I might be closer.

I'm also beginning to suspect that the image has 105 columns total.
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What size are the postcards, has anyone measured them? I think card stock, I think old punch cards.

Coasterg wrote:
Two things spring to mind when I saw those - old computer punch cards, which followed a similar format way, way, way back when and morse code, notice there are dots and dashes.


I was thinking punched cards as well, maybe IBM 80 format?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80_column_punched_card_format

The only other thing that comes to mind when I look at these images is old magnetic cassette tape, the kind I'd load programs from into an old Radio Shack computer from the 80's with.

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~sigh~ Dead end there. They're not seven pixels wide. Drat.

The most consecutive lines with pixels appears to be four at the end.


Let's not assume they are pixels. Smile

I think it's interesting that there are four in a row though. Are they a repeated pattern on each of the cards we know of so far? I wonder if there's a way to figure out if there's a sequence to these strips on the cards. My guess would be chronological by release date of the games, if they are known. Anyone have any other guesses?

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madopal wrote:
Ok, so I crossreferenced my image with Bruce's, and I found quite a few scaling issues. So I went through and individually matched the image thru scaling a bit better. The PSD and XCF I linked to on page 4 are now updated, including the original images as layers so people can investigate the overlay.

Anyway, here's my corrected image:


Astro Gunner still has overlapping pixels with 2 of the others, but the other 3 no longer overlap at all. So I might be closer.

I'm also beginning to suspect that the image has 105 columns total.
I think something's still off... I agree with Bruce that the characters are 6x6 (with a 7th blank column). These still aren't quite lining up.
I like your formatting better, much easier to play around with than the overlay.

EDIT: Maybe try lining it up as though the first word is ENCOM. It really does look like that's a strong possibility in the overlay Bruce did.
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darthdono74 @ hotmail.com wrote:
Also, all the front of the postcards indicate "No playing at your local Arcade"
Another Flynns at CC2010?


That would be pretty sweet. If it does happen, I hope y'all will take plenty of pictures, tweet, and blog about it!

As for me, my local arcade is Ground Kontrol. I think I'll be hitting it up in the next day or two with a roll of quarters to go play some Tetris.

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 		Anyone got their postcard(s) in the mail yet? Mine hasn't arrived!

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I think something's still off... I agree with Bruce that the characters are 6x6 (with a 7th blank column). These still aren't quite lining up.
I like your formatting better, much easier to play around with than the overlay.


Oh, I have no doubt. If you can, download the PSD and look at how I've overlayed the pixels. They drift quite a bit, and even with doing the best scaling I can manage, there are quite a few that wind up in between. That's probably why it goes from a bit like a shape into more noise as you move right.

But I also agree that it's easier to play with that way than looking at the weird blobs when you just try and resize/superimpose the images we have. They're all photos taken at different angles and at different distances from the camera. It's a royal pain, that's for sure.
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Also, we could be looking for a code where the pixels that aren't filled carry the message (Likely not ASCII binary, but maybe Braille or something else.).


Ooh, Braille is a good guess. Has anyone tried translating what we have so far?

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madopal wrote:
VanGoghX wrote:
I think something's still off... I agree with Bruce that the characters are 6x6 (with a 7th blank column). These still aren't quite lining up.
I like your formatting better, much easier to play around with than the overlay.


Oh, I have no doubt. If you can, download the PSD and look at how I've overlayed the pixels. They drift quite a bit, and even with doing the best scaling I can manage, there are quite a few that wind up in between. That's probably why it goes from a bit like a shape into more noise as you move right.

But I also agree that it's easier to play with that way than looking at the weird blobs when you just try and resize/superimpose the images we have. They're all photos taken at different angles and at different distances from the camera. It's a royal pain, that's for sure.


I hear you, man. Sadly, I don't have a UV light so once my postcard arrives I don't know if i can help... Sad

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WolfinPDX wrote:
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Also, we could be looking for a code where the pixels that aren't filled carry the message (Likely not ASCII binary, but maybe Braille or something else.).


Ooh, Braille is a good guess. Has anyone tried translating what we have so far?
Tried it. Can make anything out of the blank space. Nice idea, though.

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