Added a demo video and an explaining post on my own site: https://leandroardissone.com/posts/ansi-saver
Minor nit: I kept trying to tap the text to open the video before I realized I had to tap the image.
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#23This is brilliant - thanks!
There are so many packs on that site to choose from, it would be great to get some pointers on which ones to install.
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#24You're inspiring me to attempt a rescue of my last BBS (MajorBBS system) from 1991-1993. It had some great ANSI room and section screens. It was run from a single 1GB(!!) drive that cost us $1000. We had email, a couple stores (one of the first online book stores) and store-n-forward mail systems, maybe finger and telnet(?). Unfortunately, a neighbor got stoned, had a cigarette in bed and burned up his house and ours…
Beautiful! No backups at all of something? Sorry for your house burnt.
In the BBS days persistent storage was expensive. Backups were at best saving something to two different floppy disks. If you got lucky you could rebuild most stuff from files you had shared with friends.
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#25This is absolutely brilliant. I've been toying with the codebase and thought this would work really well similar to the 'Macintosh' style animated screensaver present in macOS's more recent updates.
Still a bit rough around the edges. I am currently adding per-character animation so the grid enters like a "wave"
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#26Anyone else having trouble getting this to work?
I tried building myself, and the build ended with a certificate error. (I get it, distributing software always hits unexpected snags.)
Then I installed from zip and when I use preview (in the screen saver options,) I just get a blank screen. There's a message at the top of the screen, but most of it is truncated from the notch from the camera.
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Edit: I tried adding sources, but they don't seem to download. Not sure why. Sigh.
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#27Anyone else having trouble getting this to work? I tried building myself, and the build ended with a certificate error. (I get it, distributing software always hits unexpected snags.) Then I installed from zip and when I use preview (in the screen saver options,) I just get a blank screen. There's a message at the top of the screen, but most of it is truncated from the notch from the camera. --- Edit: I tried adding…
Doesn't work for me either. I'm running Sequoia on an Intel Mac. When the saver runs, it says "No art sources configured. Open Screen Saver Options to add pack URLs or a local folder." I've added all 5 of the recommended pack URLs listed on the GitHub page, and even tried clicking the Refetch Packs button, but it won't show anything except that message.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Beautiful! No backups at all of something? Sorry for your house burnt.
It was a weird time frame. My partner was living in the house, and I was moving to Seattle. The backup was pretty much inches from the system itself. Not the last time I learned that lesson. But, the original SCSI drive did survive, even if the machines and desk and couches, etc. were all ruined. With HTML coming along we didn't rebuild. It's still seems like such a huge loss not having entities like BBSs on the inte…
There were telnet BBSes on the internet in the 1990s. I even used some in 2005. Haven't gone looking, but I'm sure if you look, you'll find one. (But it might be better to use ssh today.)
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#29Added a demo video and an explaining post on my own site: https://leandroardissone.com/posts/ansi-saver
A couple of the art packs you recommend 404.
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#30It's able to download packs but you have to disable Lulu when you first run the screen saver itself because Lulu doesn't seem to detect its network access (and can't allow you to approve it)
It seems to also download the HTML for the 16colors page, and will occasionally display it.