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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 May 1998.
Re: AsciiScape

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. ;)

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From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: AsciiScape
Date: 1998/05/08
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Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever)
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