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Star Wars Asciimation Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it's-from-1977-after-all dept.

Treebeard the Ent writes "A few years ago, Slashdot did a story about a guy Who was creating a full motion Ascii version of Star Wars in Asciimation. This is a link to the source of the now infamous Star Wars ASCIIMATION project that has been evolving since 97. This guy has stated that he prefers to finish this project on his own (but you are welcomed to do any of the other Star Wars movies). In his FAQ's he has stated that he doesn't have time to support his Java applet nor the text files, so he would not be making them available for anyone. Fortunatally enough for those of us who are interested, he has left them wide open in a standard zip file on his server. So download and have fun... Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies..."

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  1. Damn... by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's hope that the trolls won't find a way to combine the BLINK tags and ascii art to make an animated goatse guy !

  2. Is It Just Me? by Snowspinner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me, or are the special effects and CGI on that more realistic than Episodes I and II?

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  3. Re:Oops by Malacca · · Score: 5, Funny

    So long as it wasn't a Jar-Jar file ...

  4. Please sit down Mr. Lucas... by Chiggy_Von_Richtoffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh great! just what we need is for this guy to *actually* finish this and have George Lucas use ILM & Skywalker Studios include a "Special Delux Uber-Platinum Edition" with "THX-MIDI" and "Colour ASCII". *sigh* Knowing the madness of King George, he really will do this. Hopefully he'll have the good sense to show Jar-Jar being ripped to pixels by Chewy.

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    Dude2: You Kidding! I'm waiting for Famke Jansen to call me back.

  5. ascii porn by nsda's_deviant · · Score: 5, Funny

    its not that bad
    http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html

    http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml

    a lot of the time your staring at the screen and you say out loud, "oh thats an interesting character to use for the nipple"

    maybe i shouldve posted anonymouslly

  6. Jeez - nothing but perverts here by RealityMogul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is anybody else surprised at the number of posters that had the link to an ASCII version of Deep Throat readily available?

  7. Just in case of slashdotting ... by trashyspaceman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I took the liberty to copy a few frames from the movie for all to see. Unfortunately I reduced the resolution just a little.

    ; ) Here's luke

    -- Here's the light sabre

    ( o ) ( o ) Here's pricess leah

    (: o Here's when luke realised
    leah's his sister

    -m

  8. Re:No way... by Sheriff+Fatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah... but after a couple of minutes, you don't even see the code any more; all you see is blonde, brunette, redhead...

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    -- Open Source: It's mad, but you don't have to work here to help.