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Comic Chat for AI revives that same panel, balloon, avatar and emotion renderer, this time drawing an automatic comic from a conversation with ChatGPT instead of another person.", "take": "Reviving a dead program’s renderer intact and pointing it at a new use is the unusual part; the same conversation reads differently once it is drawn as a comic.", "build": [ "A 32-bit MFC app for Windows", "Unlike the original, IRC, the legacy server dialogs and member lists are removed; a locally installed Codex handles the browser sign-in and connects to ChatGPT, and the app states it does not store the credentials. The source is MIT-licensed, and the repository is independent of the original Microsoft project." ], "who": [ { "role": "Anyone who remembers the original Comic Chat, and people who want a different record of a ChatGPT conversation.", "situation": null } ], "start": [ { "command": false, "text": "Download the Windows build from GitHub Releases and extract it intact so CChat.exe stays next to the comicart folder." } ], "caveat": [ "It is still alpha, a 32-bit app on 64-bit Windows 11, and needs Codex installed locally plus a ChatGPT sign-in to work. 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The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours." }, "ranks": null, "activity": { "pushed_at": "2026-09-16T12:23:31.000Z", "owner_type": null, "open_issues": null, "contributors": null, "releases_count": null, "latest_release": null, "checked_at": null, "core_checked_at": "2026-09-16T13:42:08.425Z" }, "signals": [ { "kind": "new", "label": "NEW", "value": "1h OLD WHEN SEEN" } ], "images": { "og": "https://tesign.com/img/comic-chat-ai-8824ff75ad.jpg", "cover": "https://tesign.com/img/comic-chat-ai-8824ff75ad.jpg", "cover_width": 1517, "cover_height": 485, "gallery": [ "https://tesign.com/img/comic-chat-ai-8824ff75ad.jpg", "https://tesign.com/img/comic-chat-ai-e9e838f647.png" ], "alt": "A three-panel comic with the original Comic Chat characters — a rabbit-eared genie and a bob-haired girl — joking that Comic Chat is open source now.", "tier": 2 }, "dates": { "first_seen_at": "2026-09-16T13:41:46.589Z", "source_created_at": "2026-09-16T12:26:00.000Z", "discovery_hours": 1.262941388888889, "launch_signal_at": "2026-09-16T12:26:00.000Z", "kept_at": "2026-09-22T05:53:16.278Z", "first_published_at": "2026-09-22T05:53:16.495Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-22T05:53:16.444Z", "ingestion_mode": "live" }, "notes": [ "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.", "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.", "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.", "A summary, not legal advice." ] }