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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. That just looks like ascii by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    its actually cell-shaded, antialiased 3d objects that need a radeon 9800 to run

  2. Whoa there by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    menu shadows in GTK, and X11 in ascii- what dumb idea will we come up with next, the Windows UI in linux?

    oh, wait...

    1. Re:Whoa there by BigBadDude · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, people die of hunger in parts of the world and what do we waste or times with?
      ehmmm...now that we are at it, here is a quote from the textmode-quake page (see also http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ss/TTYQuakeSt art.html)


      SCREENSHOTS
      Paul Wilkins, who apparently has waaaay to much free time, has graciously donated two HTML "screenshots" of ttyquake which he created by hand. No, really. He typed in all those little characters while reading from jpeg screenshots I sent him. His mother must be so proud.
      The Quake console just after startup
      The start of a new game
      JPEG versions of the screenshots

  3. Hmm... by AntiOrganic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have menu shadows, though?

  4. Ouch... by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Funny

    oww ooooo somebody just *had* to invent something more painful than reading RFC's..... anyone got Tylenol? Please?

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

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

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  6. Thats easy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    88 49 49

  7. aaarrghh by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    my eyees!! my eyes!!!!

    My eyes are ASCII-allergic you insensitive clod!

  8. RTFA by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always wondered why people rarely read the article. Now I know that it's because TFA is usually slashdoted before most people can read them.

  9. /.ed - here is a mirror of the startup image by Sabalon · · Score: 5, Funny

    X

  10. Re:Impaired by Alien+Being · · Score: 4, Funny

    +0 Veeeery intereshting... but shtupid.

  11. Re:Impaired by supernova87a · · Score: 4, Funny

    somehow, I doubt that blind people are interested in screen after screen that say "Error 404: object not found"...

  12. slashdotted? by Blob+Pet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the screenshots should have been done in ascii instead of jpeg?

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    1. Re:slashdotted? by catmaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not really insightful. The JPEGs on the site were ones I took in a hurry just to get *some* pictures to show people.

      The week after I created the GIFs, which were a lot sharper, and smaller files.

      And as to why I shouldn't have 'big' files? Well, who expects a slashdotting?

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  13. Games to Play in X11 ASCII by citizenc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody should take a screenshot of X11 ASCII running TTYQuake in a window. :P

  14. 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.

  15. Re:ascii dvd-player (mplayer) by catmaker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, then what did I say after that? I did it for shits'n'giggles, and for the geek factor.

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  16. Re:Impaired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interesting? Jesus.

    Let me pretend I'm an ASCII text reader, so you can get a magical glimpse into ASCII X-Terminals for the blind:

    "En En En En En En Cee Cee Cee Dash Equals Dash Equals Cee Cee Kay Five Dash Seven Cee..."

    Blind user, after 20 minutes: "Wow! That's a Back button!"

    Pretty damn useful technology.

  17. NOBODY expects a Slashdotting! by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    NOBODY expects a Slashdotting! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless bandwidth usage.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless bandwidth usage...and an almost fanatical devotion to Open Source.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.