X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,22cbf1c471c6b7d6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,cc1ec36a0a7d6ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Matthew Thomas Subject: Re: Star Wars ASCIIMation Date: 1999/05/24 Message-ID: <3748B051.21579FB3@spamfree.land>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 481355832 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37472d2e.44573236@news.vossnet.net> X-Accept-Language: en Followup-To: alt.ascii-art.animation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: University of Canterbury (opinions expressed are my own) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation 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