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I propose that developers are allowed to use it in production... so long as they do all the development work on a 9600 baud dialup with a VT102.
I actually am getting a VT320 soon that I hope to be able to use for my terminal at work. I'll run these over it if I remember.
https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main
[edit, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib]
This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.
Maybe it does, I didn't check.
Very cool! But I’m just a bit sad that this is “just” a set of effects implemented on top of the same old standard ANSI escape codes as primitives. I’ve been waiting for one or more terminal emulators to get together and add some ridiculous new escape codes, such that animated effects (or things like collapsible sections, font size, “form-input-ness” and “form-button-ness” ala 3270, etc) all get treated as part of th…
93 points by andrewstuart on Sept 8, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 63 comments
Can't wait to find these in TV shows!
Yeah, I can see some "hacker" using Decrypt effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3npSv8iuM
Anyone want to shut down the Federal Reserve?
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I propose that developers are allowed to use it in production... so long as they do all the development work on a 9600 baud dialup with a VT102.
A few years ago, a submarine cable was knocked out, between our startup's MVP servers in Singapore AWS, and our networked factory stations in Asia. In lieu of the submarine cable, something closer to a wet string was being routed over. It had such high latency and packet loss, that a watchdog timer I'd implemented on the stations was timing out. Fortunately, the remote access we'd built into our stations (SSH and Ope…
"line is ~300 baud but only transmitting 7 bit but we need to send this critical file.. which is in EBCDIC!"
Does this have some overlap with libcaca? cacademo and cacafire are especially impressive. Also has Python bindings. https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main [edit, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib ]
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Dev here: I agree, it's actually a line item in my todo list. That being said, many of them can be made to be very quick via command line arguments without losing the spirit of the effect.
That's a delightful thing you've made. Have you added a command-line switch for the direction of gravity? Some of the animations (eg Pour), could fall up the screen instead of down it. That way, the user can start reading the text immediately.
I have not implemented gravity, haha. I have actually worked on a custom terminal game engine in the past and realized with TTE I am very small amount of scope creep away from landing in that territory again. I promised myself I will not implement physics or collision. Keeping it simple. That being said, as with the example pour syntax above, all of the effects have a ton of config options to allow for most obvious variations.