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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 May 1999.
Re: Star Wars ASCIIMation

Re: Star Wars ASCIIMation

Martin Atkins wrote:
> 
> There's a cool Java-based Star Wars ASCIImation at:
> http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/lucas/339/page1.html
>...

Yeah, it was announced on Slashdot ... pretty damn cool. This is the
beginning of his attempt to animate the entire Episode IV (A New Hope).

I e-mailed the author and told him to come join us in
alt.ascii-art.animation; he had no idea we existed!

Unfortunately the Java version only seems to work on Netscape Navigator
for Windows (and Linux, with a bit of hackery); on MacOS and various
Unixes it doesn't seem to work. However, instructions on viewing it
using C, perl, elisp, and probably a couple of other languages can be
found if you trawl through the Slashdot comments at
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99%2F05%2F22%2F1341217 -- you'll
need the jar utility for decompressing Java archives, though.

[followups set]
-- 
Matthew `mpt26 @ student . canterbury . ac . nz' Thomas
Columnist, http://www.newsroom.co.nz/
Webmaster, http://www.ucsa.canterbury.ac.nz/clubs/kakariki/
FAQ maintainer, news:alt.ascii-art

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