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Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by darrelld » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

yurishimo wrote: post #14

This is way older than 2015. I remember passing around a .bat file with it embedded in High School. 2009 era. At that point it was already old.

Older still...I remember there was a telnet server circa 2002 that you could log into and watch it all.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by dr_orpheus » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

sidpatil wrote: post #2

Also available via Telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl.

Ah, reminds me of messing with my friends by piping the output to a write message on their terminals. Super annoying because it just scrolls through the terminal frame by frame.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by toast0 » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

jacobush wrote: post #16

jolmg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently 1999, but it was a Java applet at the time.

The java applet was just a telnet client in Java, IIRC. The original was a telnet server.

IIRC, that java was self-contained. I think the applet zip file contained the textfile, which I used to make my own local viewer. FWIW, the text file has changed over time (which I guess is fair, it's not like Lucas hasn't changed his versions over time)

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by estebank » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

m-i-l wrote: post #18

You can watch any film in ASCII with VLC and a video file[0]: vlc videofile.mp4 -V aa [0] https://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output/

I hope it is clear that this is not what the original link is about. VLC can output ascii art like what aalib and libcaca can produce (namely try to simulate images using terminal output), while the submission is an animated scene by scene recreation of A New Hope using ascii art.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by dvdkhlng » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

tom_mellior wrote: post #11

dvdkhlng wrote: post #9

In Firefox (v82) the text-field does not seem to render in a strictly non-proportional font. Thus everything is garbled. Unfortunately w3m text-mode browser isn't capable to display the page... [EDIT] The following steps fix playback in Firefox for me: - I press F12 to open the web-developer tools, - select the "Console" Tab - at the prompt at the bottom (marked by ">>") enter: document.querySelector("pre#screen").se…

For me (Firefox 82 on Ubuntu) everything works fine out of the box. #screen has "font-family: Courier New,Fixed;" set.

I'm running Firefox, installed from upstream, running on Devuan Beowulf. With the default "Courier New,Fixed" font family set it's just not working.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by SaltyBackendGuy » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #19

I remember seeing it at: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

This was getting passed around at work. I remember my co-worker saying.

"Looks trustworthy, what could go wrong?". I laughed, and then was amazed at the result.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by jacobush » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

darrelld wrote: post #21

yurishimo wrote: post #14

This is way older than 2015. I remember passing around a .bat file with it embedded in High School. 2009 era. At that point it was already old.

Older still...I remember there was a telnet server circa 2002 that you could log into and watch it all.

In the 90s.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by BuildTheRobots » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 6:35 PM UTC

sidpatil wrote: post #2

Also available via Telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl.

FYI, if you connect via IPv6 then you can watch in colour :)

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by BerislavLopac » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

dvdkhlng wrote: post #25

tom_mellior wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me (Firefox 82 on Ubuntu) everything works fine out of the box. #screen has "font-family: Courier New,Fixed;" set.

I'm running Firefox, installed from upstream, running on Devuan Beowulf. With the default "Courier New,Fixed" font family set it's just not working.

If I'm not mistaken, Courier New is one of Microsoft fonts; if you're on Linux there is an installer available for various distros; on apt-based systems it's:

  sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by jolmg » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

jacobush wrote: post #16

jolmg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently 1999, but it was a Java applet at the time.

The java applet was just a telnet client in Java, IIRC. The original was a telnet server.

> The original was a telnet server.

The telnet server says:

> Original Work : Simon Jansen ( http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ )

> Telnetification : Sten Spans ( sten@blinkenlights.nl )

> Terminal Tricks : Mike Edwards (pf-asciimation@mirkwood.net)