12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
3 p.m.
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:04:49 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:41 -0800, Tom Jennings
wrote:
I believe hearing about (and seeing) a whole rendering of Star Wars for
ASCII. Unfortunately, I remember it being 'released' as a MacroMedia
Flash object.
-scott
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:
figlet does only this:
tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
__
/ _| ___ ___
| |_ / _ \ / _ \
| _| (_) | (_) |
|_| \___/ \___/
That reminded me that I haven't run 'banner' in years. Many an hour
was wasted at uni with everyone piping banner output to the write
command... labs used to be awash with the sounds of terminals beeping.
Banner seems to still be here on this desktop (Slackware 10) and the
ASCII-rendered letter quality has improved vastly over the years!
On a related note, I think there's a plugin/patch for SVGALib under
Linux to render everything in ASCII, which is what made running Doom
from a VT220 possible (not particularly usable, but it works! ;)
cheers
Jules