11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
1:05 p.m.
willisjo at zianet.com wrote:
[ASCII art drawing of a BA23]
Is that a BA23?
Yes.
(Apologies for the ASCII drawing)
Why apologize? ASCII art is great!
MS
11 Mar
11 Mar
2:14 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
willisjo at zianet.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Michael Sokolov wrote:
[ASCII art drawing of a BA23]
Is that a BA23?
Yes.
> (Apologies for the ASCII drawing) Why apologize? ASCII art is great!
And as universally accepted as anything ever made.
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I can imagine, keys pressed for turtle graphics (pen down/up,
north/south/east/west drag the pen, etc) drawing rectangles.
Shortcut commands for common drawing problems (a
"spreadsheet-like" table labelled with columns A - Z and rows 1 -
10, that sort of thing).
Never saw such a thing, and I've actively looked.
2:17 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
And thusly Tom Jennings spake:
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I remember using a drawing/animation program that would output ANSI,
but I can't remember the name of it. I believe it was shareware or
freeware.
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
5:33 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Tom Jennings spake:
TheDraw? I remember my mate who ran Darkstar BBS in Aberdeen drawing
truly *awful* lurid screens with it. Not his fault, really, he was
working on an Amstrad PPC640 with the monochrome LCD.
Gordon.
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I remember using a drawing/animation program that would output ANSI,
but I can't remember the name of it. I believe it was shareware or
freeware. 
8:26 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Tom Jennings spake:
The program you're probably thinking of is AFAIK DOS only called TheDraw
you can find a copy at http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/
J Brian Ismay
jismay at unixboxen.net
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I remember using a drawing/animation program that would output ANSI,
but I can't remember the name of it. I believe it was shareware or
freeware.
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
2:23 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Tom Jennings wrote:
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does
apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I think it's called "figs" or "fig".
Doc
7:06 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Tom Jennings wrote:
Do you mean DEC PHIGS by any chance?
--
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www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it
does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I think it's called "figs" or "fig".
7:34 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Witchy wrote:
No, but I had the name wrong. It's "figlet". :)
Doc
Tom Jennings
wrote:
Do you mean DEC PHIGS by any chance? This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it
does apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone
know of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs
ASCII, for
.+n[u,i]x?
I think it's called "figs" or "fig".
12 Mar
12 Mar
4:41 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:
No, but I had the name wrong. It's "figlet". :)
fig/xfig is a general-purpose drawing program; X application. Doesn't do
ASCII character drawing, which is not typical orthogonal line drawing. It's
specialized.
figlet does only this:
tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
__
/ _| ___ ___
| |_ / _ \ / _ \
| _| (_) | (_) |
|_| \___/ \___/
I think it's called "figs" or
"fig".
Do you mean DEC PHIGS by any chance? 
5:04 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:41 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
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
--
"We've had a lot of loonies around this place, but you're the first one
who thought the sunrise was made out of stale beer. Now are you going to
pick up your flute and leave, or shall I part your hair with this
crowbar?"
6 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
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
13 Mar
13 Mar
9:18 a.m.
New subject: ASCII
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 18:00 -0500, Scott Stevens wrote:
I believe hearing about (and seeing) a whole rendering
of Star Wars for
ASCII.
I just discovered (by accident) that mplayer under Linux falls back to
ASCII display in a shell window when playing movies if it can't open any
graphical device. Very odd indeed.
2:04 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
> I believe hearing about (and seeing) a whole
rendering of Star Wars for
> ASCII.
There's also AALIB, the 3D graphics system for (not kidding)
monochrome MDA-type adapters. full motion graphics on 25x80
monochrome screens. If I recall correctly a bunch of eastern
european kids with crappy hardware, a desire to play DOOM and no
stupid adults around to tell them it was impossible.
I've only seen the demo program. Run on DOS. LIttle docs. Probably
hideous code, but would be nice for you HARDCORE types to
implement :-)
10:29 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
Tom Jennings wrote:
There's also AALIB, the 3D graphics system for
(not kidding)
And libcaca (google it), for color.
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14 Mar
14 Mar
12:10 a.m.
New subject: ASCII
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:04:41 -0800 (PST), Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
AALIB is fully open-source software and is multi-platform. Many
multimedia software now supports AALIB as its presentation layer (my
favorite is aaxine).
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/
Runs on all *nix (AFAIK) and DOS.
I'm frequently running aaxine on a terminal emulator (one day I'll try
to hook a VT100 to my Linux box).
It's a bit perverse but you can actually watch VCD/DVD movies on a VT100!!!
Takes a bit of getting used too though, and you'd have to watch it
> I believe
hearing about (and seeing) a whole rendering of Star Wars for
> ASCII.
There's also AALIB, the 3D graphics system for (not kidding) from a distance...
:-)
/wai-sun
3:06 a.m.
New subject: ASCII
Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
It's a bit perverse but you can actually watch
VCD/DVD movies on a VT100!!!
Takes a bit of getting used too though, and you'd have to watch it
from a distance...
:-)
Watched Lain on my PC at home, while SSHed into it from work. Yup. No
sound though, and you can't read the subtitles.
Gordon.
4:04 a.m.
New subject: ASCII
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
But I think that is the wrong way to watch lain ... It is already too
strange for my liking as is.
Now for all the people who don't watch anime -- lain is very strange
anime set in the future with
ESP style computer interfacing. When you start getting email from dead
people in the first episode
it gets very dark quickly.
Ben alias woodelf
It's a bit perverse but you can actually
watch VCD/DVD movies on a
VT100!!!
Takes a bit of getting used too though, and you'd have to watch it
from a distance...
:-)
Watched Lain on my PC at home, while SSHed into it from work. Yup.
No sound though, and you can't read the subtitles.
13 Mar
13 Mar
3:27 a.m.
New subject: ASCII
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
figlet does only this:
tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
__
/ _| ___ ___ | |_ / _ \ / _ \ | _| (_) | (_) |
|_| \___/ \___/
HEY!! No, the @##%_) mailing list software did that!! Figlet does this:
X __
X / _| ___ ___
X | |_ / _ \ / _ \
X | _| (_) | (_) |
X |_| \___/ \___/
X's put in by me to protect the damned |'s.
7:24 a.m.
New subject: OT: ASCII
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
Curious. On my client I saw the first line indented by two spaces, then
the following three lines aligned to the left margin. Readable and still
not the mess you obviously got, but still not right :)
Version with the X's works fine...
cheers
J.
figlet does only this:
tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
__
/ _| ___ ___ | |_ / _ \ / _ \ | _| (_) | (_) |
|_| \___/ \___/
HEY!! No, the @##%_) mailing list software did that!! Figlet does this:
X __
X / _| ___ ___
X | |_ / _ \ / _ \
X | _| (_) | (_) |
X |_| \___/ \___/
X's put in by me to protect the damned |'s. 
11 Mar
11 Mar
3:01 p.m.
New subject: ASCII
This is pushing off-topic even on CCTALK but it does
apply to
documentation etc acceptable to non-GUI machines -- does anyone know
of a "graphical" (eg. curses) drawing program that outputs ASCII,
for .+n[u,i]x?
On the theory that ANSI draw programs used to be in vogue in the late
80s/early 90s BBS era, and that ASCII art is still used on old systems,
I'm going to answer this as on topic. :-)
A number of possibilities come to mind:
1. Run something like the TheDraw (old DOS program) under dosbox
or similar emulator.
2. Have a look at EDASCII (X app in Tk), cadubi (console app in
perl), Linux ASCII Draw, etc. Try googling for "ansi draw program"
(no quotes).
3. Try emacs picture drawing mode.
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