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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. PERL Asciimation by ndetroit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And here's an excellent implementation of it in PERL:

    http://okcomputer.antiflux.org/~grant/asciimation. html

  2. ASCII Babes by notestein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And let's not forget the ASCII Babes.

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    www.bannination.com Two things float to the top he

  3. for you macheads by JiNG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For all you macheads out there:

    Here's a link to a little Apple prog that will play*any* QT movie in the Terminal (as ascii).
    Very cool stuff.

    http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Cod e/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.htm

  4. Re:Oops by SavingPrivateNawak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When they say "left wide open in a zip file on his server"...

    Is it "wide open" as "I did not rob this shop, the door was wide open, so it's not theft"?

    Did the guy agree that you take this file and use it?

    Just a question...

  5. Re:Oops by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Also, since this is an ASCII related post, must spam my program MosASCII [mosascii.com] (for windows, $8) :) "

    Sorry, we only like free software around here. Though your price is quite reasonable for the service you provide, we do not feel anybody should ever actually be compensated for their time. When you give it to us for free, we also want the source code too. Of course none of us will actually do anything to improve the software, we just want to make the point that we could fix it if we actually wanted to. Just being honest though, we only modify the software when we can use that to flip off M$.

    So yes, it's appreciated, but your reasonable price is too high. ;)

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    "Derp de derp."