8-bit News

8-Bit News is a Safari extension that gives Google News an 8-bit look. Apart from looking cool, 8-Bit News also emphasises the news on the page and removes alternate headlines, "starring", and so on. The only things you see are the headline, a Commodore 64-era picture, a snippet of the story, and links to other news articles about the same topic. To use the extension: download it by clicking the link below. Then, double-click the extension to install it. Test it by visiting Google News.

Bad news! Google has started referencing more external images from their page. Safari extension JavaScript can't access image data for images loaded from other servers because of the same-origin policy. So, many images are not being properly converted. Unfortunately the only solution is apparently to use a proxy server. I think this is an unreasonable privacy invasion for 8-bit news users just so they can see some 8-bit images, so, for now, the images will remain un-pixellated. Sorry about that!

8-Bit News includes Kreative Korp's excellent Commodore 64 font Pet Me 64 2Y. Kreative Korp has a lot of cool fonts free for personal use. Pet Me 64 2Y is made available under Kreative Korp's personal use license, included below.

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