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X11 in ASCII

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

ChristTrekker submitted a story that we probably have run once upon a time, but hey, it's a holiday weekend, and who doesn't enjoy reading about a X11 in ASCII graphics? Complete with screenshots and code for you do it yourselfers. I like the enlightenment screenshots. Painful.

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  1. Mirrors by brejc8 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are mirrors of photos, dumps and the original site.

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  2. Already /.'d, here's google's cache. by 2MuchC0ffeeMan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google Cache:

    Main Page:
    Here

    i would link the rest of the site but it's all screenshots which google doesn't cache.

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  3. /.ed Already by ciroknight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yahoo cache
    http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=http%3A%2F%2F www.meow.org.uk%2Fstan%2Fxserver%2F (google didn't have it... StRaNgE...)

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  4. ascii dvd-player (mplayer) by Carl+Drougge · · Score: 3, Informative

    He says he wanted to watch DVDs, and I can't understand why he would need X for that. mplayer supports -vo aa to render using aalib, without all the overhead of an xserver.

    I've even actually used it once on a computer that was too slow to play DVDs in X. It was far from enjoyable, but still impressive.

  5. Re:Impaired by spydir31 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I seriously doubt anyone visually impaired will be able to understand anything of the text after it passes through aalib.
    anyway, there are tactile displays that can handle regular (high contrast) screens just fine, AFAIK.
    Virtouch and ABTIM, for example.