Re: AsciiScape
Ben Norwood (bdn...@aber.ac.uk) wrote: : Inspired by a recent flamewar, I now present... AsciiScape. : It (obviously) needs improvement (after all, it is only version 1!), and it : is 99 characters wide, but imho it's a valient attempt at emulating a : well-known *nix browser in ascii (perhaps someone will have a go at M$-IE : sometime)... Now squeeze it to fit in 80 chars and hack a copy of lynx[1] to draw it around the screen. Add mouse support and I'd say you've got something. =) If you really wanted to go for maximum hack value, adding some gifscii code to display images would be really, well, totally useless[2]. [1] Or your favorite text mode browser, whatever it is. [2] Which in this context means that it'd just have to be done. ;) -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen ilt...@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,72ab281dc2fdd891 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) Subject: Re: AsciiScape Date: 1998/05/08 Message-ID: <6ivoli$8v5$1...@tron.sci.fi>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 351525945 Distribution: world References: <Pin...@osfb.aber.ac.uk> Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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