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Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by tom_mellior » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

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.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by tom_mellior » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

mnw21cam wrote: post #10

> Asciimation may take some time to load... It's been sitting there like that for 10 minutes or so. How long does this thing take?

As long as it takes you to activate JavaScript, I believe.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by snarfy » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

There should be a lucas 'digitally enhanced' version, with hi res svg overlays floating around.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by yurishimo » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

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.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by mnw21cam » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

tom_mellior wrote: post #12

mnw21cam wrote: post #10

> Asciimation may take some time to load... It's been sitting there like that for 10 minutes or so. How long does this thing take?

As long as it takes you to activate JavaScript, I believe.

So, NaN time then...

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by jacobush » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #6

jiveturkey wrote: post #4

needs a 1995 tag ... or however old it is

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.

Re: Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

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Post by Joker_vD » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #5

sidpatil wrote: post #2

Also available via Telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl.

Pity ^S/^Q don't work for pause/play. ^C/^Z also don't seem to work for quitting. I wonder what's preventing these keybindings from working. Very cool regardless.

The fact that Telnet is actually a protocol, and a weird one (mostly because it's ancient and actually predates UNIX). I believe the reason is that those keypresses are not interpreted by your terminal but instead sent over to the other side to be interpreted there. Obviously, they don't do anything there.

With "nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23", on the other hand, they would work.