X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,673e7f0906fe4e99 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: CJRandall Subject: Re: ASCII drawing program? Date: 1999/10/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 538960016 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 References: <7u2g3h$91l$1@raven.cybercomm.net> <38061b9c.20094834@news.icenet.fi> <380E8C21.9E2913BC@ihug.co.nz> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 940533035 nnrp-02:18746 NO-IDENT shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 Organization: me? organised? MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Aleisha writes >Jan-Erik Finnberg wrote: > >> In an ansi-code system this can't be done. Of course you can have >> frames repeated different number of times. >> >> -- > >What is the point of using ansi codes then? I downloaded some ascii >animation like this and it ran much too fast, shouldn't animation be >time based so computer speed doesn't effect it? > >Aleisha [][ hi ... in the old days ... like 10-20 years ago ... you couldn't get an IBM PC to go fast enough to make much of a difference i first got an i486 around 1991 that did run the ansi-anims too fast and to view them properly i had to slow the cpu from the bios or run a tool called 486slow.com i haven't seen _any_ new ansi-anims made after about 1992 altho' ansi-ascii pics are still quite abundant i have discovered that recent remakes or conversions of ansi.sys have timing elements in them [][ see yuz [][ colin -- . /\_/\ ( () |_ | |\| _/ |? .\ |\| |) .\ |_ |_ :( a a( CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk ' \___") <>