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From: see_URL_in.sig@end.to_mail_to.us (R L Samuell)
Subject: ByteStew
Date: 1999/10/22
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Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation

Though not strictly an example of ASCII art, "ByteStew" is the title of
an instance of  a related  class of program-generated animations.   The
original  twelve-year-old  program  written in  GW-BASIC  randomly  and
endlessly writes individual bytes  with  different  colored backgrounds
directly to the DOS screen buffer of a PC fast enough that it gives the
impression  that  the  screen  is  'boiling'  with bytes--   hence, the
allusion to a bubbling 'byte stew.'

For  further  information on  this  early (1987)  example  of  animated
screenery for the PC, link to:

http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/Software/ByteStew.shtml

Please be patient.  The server is very *SLOW*.

Regards,


R L Samuell
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