Re: Tools For ASCII/ANSI Art & text windows

I think one reason why bandwidth on this group is doomed, in the near term, 
is that the f*****g art takes too long to create-- because there's no good
tools-- so we're already running out of new images.

This goes quintuple for ANSI animations-- the potential is hugely exciting
to me, but I simply can't take the required time to experiment by hand.

So I propose we put our heads together and create some simple C-code that
can easily be ported to *every* platform (hey, it's just text!), and then
add features to our hearts' content...

But rather than hogging the bandwidth here, I invite interested parties to 
rendezvous over on comp.text, which is a relatively quiet-and-appropriate
group, at least for starters.  (I think Ascii windowing can be included,
too, and we can reasonably argue that what we're doing will grow into an
integrated text/ascii-graphics editor...)

ObAscii (in virtual color) ((Don't expect too much)):

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    B       B       B       B       B        Y Y Y Y        B   
B       B       B       B       B       B   Y O O O Y   B       
    B       B       B       B       B      Y O O O O Y      B   
B       B       B       B       B       B   Y O O O Y   B       
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