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4kbps works well.

For anyone interested I have collected all of the 80s Usborne programming books and am (slowly) reviewing each one on a 6502 based machine I built and ported the original MS Basic to: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/category/usborne

What other game could you possible want?

Arduino Taipan!

Pretty much. http://asciimation.co.nz/

Here you go

Don't forget the jet powered beer cooler.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

This is of course neat to see, but I think it's clearly a rotoscoped sequence transferred to a printout (which is pretty cool too). Not to quibble, but this might be a better example of full-on ASCII animation:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ - The classic ASCII anim of Episode IV.

As the author of the great, unfinished masterpiece that is Star Wars Asciimation I can say I have had people ask me why I don't open it up to others to finish. I am reluctant though since 1, it will be hell to manage and 2, it would end up looking like crap. Different people with different skills all thinking their bit is the greatest thing ever isn't going to make for a good finished product.

Here's an example - Star Wars EpIV in 10MB. I'm pretty sure you could compress this below a meg.

And you can make it 1080p if you increase your font size!

http://asciimation.co.nz/

Aha! So _you_ must be the one who created Telnet Star Wars!!

(Reference: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl)
(Also on http at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/)

Na, asciimation

Unfortunately it does not work in lynx.

Well, then maybe Australia should start a war on New Zealand - considering their practises for cooling beer and it's impact on actually having any beer...

As I was reading/flipping through the project, I was thinking that this is the sort of stuff that gets done in the sheds of New Zealanders. I looked at the address and behold.

Another such project
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ (I see now on the same website)

I was reading about his Tardis MAME thing:
"Anyway, Linux didn't last long ... and I soon had Win2k back on the box."

Maybe a few opinions of his supergeekdom will change based on that line alone! ;-)

PS New Zealand is the greatest country in the world.

Why don't you just order a pizza and check out his Jet Powered Beer Cooler.

Don't forget, this is the guy that created the jet-powered beer cooler as discussed way back when.

While his server hasn't become a smoking ruin, check out his TARDIS MAME console.

Don't forget, this is the guy that created the jet-powered beer cooler as discussed way back when.

While his server hasn't become a smoking ruin, check out his TARDIS MAME console.

I think to stay true to the period though Adventure The Movie should be in b&w.

To stay properly true to the original, it should just be a film of a roll of paper coming out of a Teletype.

No, asciimation!

Perfect time to point this out. A full sized, beer brewing, talking Bender.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender

This one is cool.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/tardis

In a geeky sort of way.

It is in my living room.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/tardis

I play MAME on it.

Originally though the show was supposed to be a mix of Sci-Fi and historical stories and some of the early (in the 1960s) stories did show other parts of the world and historical times. But in the end they decided to just go with the sci-fi type stories.

Speaking of Doctor Who someone has buitl a MAME console inside a TARDIS. You can read about it here:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/tardis

Yes, the same guy who did the ASCII Star Wars. That guy obviously has way too much time on his hands!

... Video messaging rates are rediculous.

Maybe they could convert the video to asciimation.

I would feel a lot better about using their service then.

It's still a mecanical conversion of a compounds to energy, with all the inefficiencies that go with it, including disposal of waste heat. Where's these fuel cells I keep hearing about?

10 props for neat, anyway.

also, can it do this?

Jet-powered supercooler.

Then there's the old jet powered beer cooler.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

If a jet engine can cool a can of beer, why not a server?

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

Yeah, real innovative HP. *yawn*

I'm ready for a technology downgrade.

Here you go, enjoy!
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

http://www.justbewise.net/matrix.html

http://www.romanm.ch//seiten_layout/portfolio_asci i.php

Star Wars Asciimation

I couldn't watch video ?

I was thinking the same thing some nine or ten months ago. It really is curious, especially with so many people doing DIY turbine-building and other people doing DIY power generation via the harnessing of rotary kinetic motion, well I guess it's just a matter of time-to-convergence, really.

I think the biggest challenge right now is mounting a turboshaft that can handle the stresses? It needs to be balanced and mounted with great precision. Also, you can't have an alternator spinning at 60,000 RPM because it'd have to be built such that it wouldn't fly apart at such speeds. The solution I've been able to come up to this issue is the idea of a worm gear reducer to turn the low-torque high-speed shaft motion into high-torque low-speed shaft motion to drive a large, slow (~2000 RPM), heavy PM generator or alternator.

Also, I think that the turbine and/or the worm gear arrangement might benefit greatly from some of this great NanoLub stuff. (although the crankcase inside a conventional piston engine is probably a much better place for it)

I have great faith in the eventual development of hybrid foil and magnetic bearings that could bear the multi-axis load of a turbine, giving us the 5million+ hour MTBF turbines we all want. Whether this sort of thing will ever be within the reach of the DIY consumer, well, remains to be seen.

You seem to live in a dreamworld. I have yet to se a fast applet, let alone a useful one.

Then you haven't seen the power, utility, and sophistication of this :) http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

Well, since he's using unorthodox methods to cool down his room, I assume he's got a fancy beer cooler as well...

I think he is cooling the water with this.

Or for a more geeky approach (or atleast more dangerous!) try the Jet Powered Beer Cooler.

Of course, if I actually ever attempted to build something like that I would probably blow the whole house up. Hence, I'll stick with my regular old-school fridge.

And don't forget "Plain text - rendered on the fly by your brain"

Why render it in your brain, when there's a nice Java applet to render it for you?

Sue this MPAA!

No, he is bad.

Surely this is the mother of all geeky cooling devices?

Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny

If you're into machining and CNC-type projects, be sure to check out 5 Bears Research. The author of the site has done some absolutely phenominal work. Be sure to check out his CNC mill section if you're thinking about making your own. Also, there are tons of homebrew jet engine sites, including more than a few that look to be destined for a Darwin Award. None of them is funnier than this site, though. Enjoy.

Methinks that they just want to get their beer cooler faster!

Is there no shame left?

No, but only in the sense that every single slashdotter who reads your post has bought essentially the same movie 5 times over. I'd say that after paying for the same flick 4 or 5 times a little fair use is in order?

Just to piss you off more, here's some more delicious fair use "piracy"

Forget about DVD, forget about HD! One of my faves is a work that's still in progress over at ASCIIMATION. Barely better than a flip book, this is clearly a labor of love on the part of the creator. Check it out!

Whoever did this has too much free time: ASCII Star Wars

Jet. Powered. Beer. Cooler.

Best quote: " I knew from some long forgotten physics lecture that when a liquid expands into a gas it will draw heat from its surroundings. And I happened to have a source of a suitable liquid right in my shed in the form of a LPG cylinder (liquid petroleum gas). What I needed was a way to use up a lot of fuel very, very quickly. What I needed was a jet engine! "