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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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. No way... by strAtEdgE · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would encourage someone to make an ascii porn! Just think... work safe porn!

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  3. This is not cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry - even though this is a goofy project, this is THIS guys project, and if he doesn't want any one else working on it, it's NOT cool to take his code.

    1. Re:This is not cool by 26199 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I agree... licences, anyone? Software isn't free by default...

  4. But did he intentionally leave them wide open....? by bad_fx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've just gotta ask... Did he intentionally leave his code, etc there for download? If not then linking to it is... well... not cool.

  5. Re:Oops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    actually i think all zip files are jar files. I am not trolling. Zip came first - remember that.

  6. Again with the "download = theft" argument... by kilroy_hau · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's "wide open" as in "I did not rob this coke can, the damn thing was on a machine that gave it to me after I inserted a coin and pressed a button"

    If you put something on a web server, and somebody makes a "request" to download that file, it's yours for the taking.

    You can always take the file out your server, or instruct the server not to give it.

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