I'm about sick of this snow crap. It needs to end.

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...trying to 'break' the slump...

I finally got around to trying Waterfox myself. It seems to work, at least enough to run the drawr applet. I haven't tried posting. Here's some instructions for y'all:

https://imgur.com/a/v0Si6

I hope it works for other folks.

@tthunderdan - I know, I have been feeling this too, I have a project proposal written for a site redesign. I'm working on it and will update with more info once I can figure out expenses.

@ds holy cow, thank you! I will put this on the main page for instructions in the meantime, that is super kind of you to share and glad you found a current workaround.

...I was refering to my creative slump, I do have to go thru a few warnings, but can still draw...

I tried Water Fox. It worked once but froze when I tried to save my drawing. Now it wont let me access the drawing board. I get the same blank screen I get normally. Tried uninstalling a few times but now it wont run any thing Java. Have to go the Linux disc method. It takes about 20 minutes to get set up to draw.

I can draw, but it won't save. Strange :(

Same thing happened to me. When I tried to reload Waterfox I got a message that Java was no longer supported by Firefox or Waterfox. I resorted back to using a Linux load up disc. Linux uses something called Iced Tea web to run Java. Don't know if it will work on windows.

There's probably some other Java security setting that's keeping it from saving the draw correctly. Next time I have a free moment I'll give it a peek.

Hold on Mr. Flagman. I just read that you have to run linux in order to draw here. I am able to draw on Windows 8.1. I had to change some settings on Java. I would love to help figure this out.

I ended up with windows 10 installed on my laptop one night while I slept. What I have to do is put my Linux Mint 17 disc in the drive and restart my computer. It will run a demo of Linux on restart. I can use Fire Fox on the demo to draw. It takes about 20-40 minutes to set up each time. I thought of installing Linux but I like listening to music and Linux doesn't playback music all that well. I also have a bunch of games on Steam that are windows based and wont run on Linux. To make matters worse now that "Net neutrality" got repealed, Spectrum has slowed my internet down a bit. I think Microsoft and Spectrum are I cahoots.

Hang in there. We all can use a life ring once in a while. Let art be yours.

You just hit me with a wave of love. I told my Mother and sister about my feelings towards Men yesterday. They are supportive which made me cry after 20 years of blocking my emotions. You have to realize that my Mother is 57 and is super religious. I guess my love and good actions overwhelmed their fear of homosexuality. I feel so much lighter now. I want to draw something soon. Thanks.

Glad everything worked out. My mother is 70 and super religious as well. She just asked me to sigh her health care proxy. Nothing hits you square in the soul like having to sign a parents D.N.R. My mother used to draw here under the name En-tity.

Good to read this Rene!

Wanted to draw my Harley and this is what I ended up with. I'm a bit rusty.

angry, I graduated from the 400s...check out my youtube...

Sweet ride then old Kz's are. That there is a powerful fun bike you have there. I still have my old Kz440Ltd I'm trying to get around to restoring. I'm currently riding a 2012 Police Electra Glide. I see you are also running a street sweeper. The city bought a new Global M3. It's absolute garbage. Doesn't pick anything up. Just pushes the dirt along the road and leaves a smear of dirt out the back of the machine. Global has looked at it several time and cant figure out why it wont work.

you outta see some of the choongies i pick up with the tymco, i follow a road milling machine on some jobs...big chunks of asphalt...

...and angry, if you need any help with that KZ400, don't hesitate to go to and register at kzrider.com...alot of kz gurus there and helpful fellows...

Yeah, Ill have to check them out. I would like to find the stock exhaust for it. Maybe replace the cam chain. I just put the Harley up for the long winters nap. Real fun trying to stuff 4 motorcycles in a 12x12 shed along with a snowblower.

Hey everybody... How are things? I miss drawing!!

hey shunt, I started some work on a solution for drawing today, and some plans for an upgrade to the entire site. it's crazy how time can slip away...

I am still here.

Hey Mr.Flagman. It is so nice to finally see some kind of movement around here. I don't want this wonderful website to dissapear. Could you draw something for us so we can feel some hope. I'm going through a tough time with an internal battle to come out of the closet by letting my family know my feelings. I want you to know that your drawings make me happy and that you are a good person.

I see what I can do. My Linux disc wouldn't boot up the other day.

I haven't personally tried it but Waterfox (a Firefox fork) still supports NPAPI plugins. That should mean that the Java plugin would work with it. Maybe worth a try?

It would be so nice if drawing would be possible again, I miss that!

I'm logged in via Waterfox now. Still I get warnings for oekaki not being safe. Dammit.

People change. Things come and go. 10EASTERN is still here. Drew my old Samsung Mega phone which is now being used to help the Berkeley "BOINC" project which I have been donating to since 1999. A great way to get some use of old phones /tablets/ or notebooks. I have "Crazy Mad" hope that we will find solutions and cures to worldwide ailments. Running mostly The World Community Grid and some Rosetta@home. My Seti@home contribution has gone way down the past 2 years.

hey rene! welcome back! :-) that is really cool, I recall using one old PC I had to help with a similar cause years back. I just checked out the BOINC page at Berkely, there are a lot of projects there. nice to see a draw from you!

Over a month... No drawr... aarrghhh

Hey Shunt, I am looking into solutions for keeping this version of Oekaki alive, it's getting more and more difficult though! More on this soon...

Great Yanbu, meanwhile, could it be possible to upload drawings from the user's harddisks, with some system checking if they are 300 × 300 and .png ?

That way I could use ms paint... It's not the same I know

Or... maybe check how this is done: https://sketch.io/sketchpad/

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Planning to set up an old pc with WXP so I can finally draw again. I miss this :(

Shunt: you can download a copy of virtualbox. it is free. there are also pre-made windows xp virtualbox files (under 500mb) you can grab from the web or bit-torrent also for free. I've used them before, they work really well!

ah ok, let's have a look at that!
Thanks!

it didn't work out, I'm not good at modifying pc's too...

I've got an old case here with W8 installed, this should work?
I have to keep an machine with an old OS anyways to save my old works anyway sooooo...

a* machine dammit Shunt

This was the first 50 cent game i ever played... I thin Star Wars was second.

this is great! :-) I was terrible at this game growing up, but later got the stupid DVD version where you could play with your remote and ended up getting pretty good at it. now I have it on my emulator setup, along with all the other ones like space ace etc. yeah I think this was the first 50 cent game I played too. I knew a kid who was awesome at it growing up and would watch him blast through screens with no problem and give me tips, but when I'd try my timing was shit, haha

Ha! yeah, I built a full-standing arcade cabinet with MAME for most of my games. I use Daphne to play this and other laser-disc-based games now, but the "hint flash" that is supposed to show what door or direction to go doesn't show up for some reason. It makes it so much harder.

I used to kick ass at Space Ace. I always thought Kimberly was a bitch. Poor Dirk doesn't know that Daphne is mildly retarded...or maybe he does...good for him. Nice chap that Dirk is. Very giving. I also remember playing Cliff Hanger. The ending always puzzled me. Did they die and are now in heaven or did they survive and make it to shore? Dragons Lair 2 was a bit harder. I had it on dvd. I just enjoyed watching the play through. The Mozart stage was the best. Thayers Quest had an interesting set up. It was the first arcade game to let you save your progress. Hell, it had a keyboard instead of a joystick. That was some fancy sh!t back im them days. They there was Astron Belt and Fire Fox (based on the movie). Not only did you pay 50 cents to play...It was timed! Holy crap, 50 cents for 90 seconds of game play unless you coughed up another 50 cents. Both very stupid games.

I recall playing a port of Dragon's Lair on a friends commodore computer (remember those?!!).. wasn't bad actually... I didn't remember the damsel in Space Ace being "Daphne".. I guess that is why they named the emulator I use "Daphne". I sucked at all of these games, but I was very attracted to the drawing style of them (I really liked the style of Don Bluth).

Aarghh! I can't draw no more dammmmmittttt :(

Hey Shunt, Buy yourself a copy of the latest Linux Mint CD. You just pop it in your computer and run it off the disk. No need to install. It lets you test the program before you install it. You have a working web browser that bypasses all that Windows 10 crap. Takes a bit to load up but it will give you your fix.

Oh really?? That'd be great!!!

Check Amazon. That's where I got mine. You can download it for free and load it on a thumb drive. I prefer the cd.

This dude looks confident. And he's not amused with your shit.Leave your waffle in the community toaster and he'll Shaolin your butt.

hey, i looked into a hosted browser solution(we'd all access it via a frame in a virtual machine), but they want $100 a month (for all of us). We should apply for a grant from the arts & Endowment dept!

you can download it hear and burn a disk
https://linuxmint.com/download.php

Four Score and Seven Years ago, our 10Eastern Forefathers set forth a new principle: That all drawings are created equal.

Oh man these things make me even want to draw more

Amazing

via Squiggles

wow

nice!

cool style

ayeee

hello!

HELLO!
great draw btw!

hi!

Holy smokes batman!

Okay everybody, calm down. Don't all draw at once.
Hey Yanbu,... Ever think of sending-out an email to all folks whomever had thrown a draw on here? invite them all to come back?

I want to draw so bad but W10 won't let me! I miss drawing on here :( :(

you do very interesting work gerold blankface. your subliminal message(s) and underlying point beneath the image is very interesting. as usual its what you say without saying it but communicate it by implying it that way its only picked up by those on that level of mental plain.

Curious how old you are , curious to see a drawing of you. Curious about you gerold blankface

email me Gerald blankface hsv321@gmail.com

Shunt, any luck?

Starseed, thanks for the comments! I sent you an email from my hotmail account.

10Eastern is more than just a vent-space.. I like the feeling of community here. I've never met any of the folks here in person, but I feel as though I have. Thanks go to Yanbu for setting this up years ago. I really wish I could have visited the installation with the printed tiles. that must have been amazing!

btw... this was my best Espcomix impression

FACK I WANT TO DRAWR HERE!!

nice!

This is so great, is it a record sleeve?

I miss drawing on here! My machine won't let me!

yeah, i have to use Internet Explorer to draw (and tell it NOT to update my java). My other browsers have all upgraded their java and no longer work :(

cool!

the trumpster!

lolo

...ill come back to this later ¬_¬

hi emma! welcome back!

hey, thanks ^_^

Gorillaz?

yep

Oh erm.... my latest tune is on iTunes

Jack Matthew Tyson - "Not All Bad Is All Bad"

Hahaha I recognize it :)

haha, nice!

Wow! That little skwair does funny things to my ocular orbs.

Anyone feel like helping finishing this one? I feel the urge to complete it but it takes loads of time

130 130 120

Should I keep it centered or slide it to the lower right corner? That way I can use more gradient left upwards :)

OK Green fader, your turn now

As I thought... since upgrade to w10 Java won't let me draw no more.

Help! I need to be able to draww! :(

It's maybe not the easiest thing to get set up and a bit overkill but virtualization software could help. Something like VirtualBox(.org) lets you run other operating systems in-a-window under Win 10 (or 7, or whatever). VirtualBox runs XP pretty well, and from there you could drawr all you want. I'm probably not doing a great job explaining it...there's probably some good tutorials on youtube.

(also cool draw, has that mrae flavor)

Ok thanks ds! I'll have a look at that next week, after exams!

Check out "Install Ubuntu Linux in Virtual Box on Windows 10" on Youtube. It's pretty straight forward.

Scratch that...Couldn't get Virtualbox to work with current Ubuntu. It needs a 32bit Kernal and Ubuntu has recently dropped 32bit support. Going to go with the Linux Mint 17.2 install disk at startup. Lets me try it before installing. Going to have to get my hard disk partitioned for linux/Windows install.

Almost a year since I worked on this?? Has time gone thàt fast??

Oh I can finally finish this one :)

Equal Opportunity Destroyer

This? In 46 minutes? How??

Skills.....GOD LEVEL!

ahhh too much!

this reads the same upside down?

hm!