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ASCII QuickTime Movie Player

EccentricAnomaly writes "Do you wish you had some more CLUI multimedia apps? Well, over at Mac OS X Hints I found this link to Apple's sample code for an ASCII QuickTime movie player. So grab some popcorn, make Terminal full screen, and watch some movie trailers the way ubergeeks were truly meant to." You can watch movies over remote login to another box, too, though the sound will come out of the host computer, not the client ...

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  1. I submitted this in June. by ZigMonty · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    2002-06-16 12:59:03 ASCIIMoviePlayer (apple,osx) (rejected)

    *sigh*

  2. Re:Make the font size tiny by Slur · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since I have very tiny arms and can't reach my keyboard to perform such complex feats of preference mastery I used my relatively normal-sized legs to kick my office chair away from the desk and got the same result.

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    -- thinkyhead software and media