X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,88009933ff66e93d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-31 08:46:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: MikeChat: Where is ASCII on IRC? Date: 31 Oct 2001 16:46:27 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 150 Message-ID: <3be019a9.11528558@news.concentric.net> References: <3bd250eb.13402628@news.onemain.com> <0456ttsm9d3m49jfg0jnfeh1e2vnmmpvji@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.220.177.92 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:9328 On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 03:14:24 +0800, Bateau wrote: >hola drsquare, soy una robusteza! >>On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:24:58 +0800, in alt.ascii-art, >> (Bateau ) wrote: >>>hola drsquare, soy una robusteza! >>>>>Looks like you are the one to ask Mike. Where are they posting ascii >>>>>art (coloured or otherwise) on IRC these days? I went to a channel >>>>>ages ago and had a nice time. Even saw what some of them had done with >>>>>ascii I made. Anyway, I have looked on IRC but not found any this >>>>>time. >>>>> >>>>>Mike or anyone have a list? >>>> >>>>Hmmm...how would an ascii-art channel work? Would you flood your pictures >>>>into the channel? >>> texts are "played" to an IRC channel with the speed controlled to prevent flooding. the command for a Plain text kept in C:\mirc\ASCII\ named big_head.txt would be played with the command /play C:\mirc\ASCII\big_head.txt 1000 people would then see: .-----------------------. _____ |RIGHT you bunch of | _.- .==-`::..,===... |quivering Nancy boys, | .'.--/_:.--``` - ._``| |get your lot moving and| '| ..-`:-`:::::::;``` \ |lets see if you can | /|//'```````---.=..-`--`+ |hold your water | |||/ .'`````` / _... \ |in the face of IRC, | ||/ ' ...__.'.` .::''':. ; |the Ultimate Evil | ||./.'_,--.::: .--` / `--------. .-----------' ||/ .-|| . |:: ` o) \ /.-' | /.| .\: ( `..' `\ .' .|'/ /| `.._|\ \ , || |`./ `-' ( ` ) -``, |.`./ | .--` | \ | \ .--._) /'., \ | ;\ .;'-'\| / '. `-,| `\ `'--. ` `-._ `,, ,` _) |...- ``` `,_ `-, ;-, | | _....---'`____ ``--, .,_-..' .` |- ``, | | / |---``:::;- `-\_ |_ + `, \ `| / `-, \ | ' `, `| | / `, | ` |. ` MJP|. displayed in the channel with a one second delay between lines (horizontaly) a scripted shortcut _might_ be like this depending where in mIRC it was used in "alias.ini": /playtxt { var %text = $dir== *.txt var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100) .play # %text %speed } or in "remote.ini" alias playtxt { var %text = $dir== *.txt var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100) .play $chan %text %speed } With either you would type /playtxt and then be able to select a file to "play" $dir== *.txt is a wildcard that allows you to find a file without knowing the full path and the script calculates the length of the file to set the delay time between posted lines to prevent flooding. I made a change that shows the file info: /playtxt { var %text = $dir== *.txt var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100) echo -a %text $lines(%text) lines at %speed .play # %text %speed } using this I "played" an ASCII-ified comic based on an e-mail joke I received. the following is what is displayed in channel C:\mIRC\ALTASCII\arab_joke.txt 27 lines at 2700 <-- local "echo" only ,--------------. | |\|OW ___ | | and |HEN `----------------------------------. |,-----------------------------------------------.| || Can you answer I'll try || || _-. a question about \ || || (_\\) your country? WWW || || c%OO _/ OO-, || || %%% (= || || %% || |`-----------------------------------------------'| |,-----------------------------------------------.| || In your American || || _-. "TV" show Star Trek || || (_\\) There are no Arabs WWW || || c%OO Why is this? OO-, || || %%% _/ (= || || %% || |`-----------------------------------------------'| |,-----------------------------------------------.| || _-. That is because Star Trek || || (_\\) is a show about wWw || || c(o)(o) the FUTURE O-O || || %%% \_ ( = ) || || %% || |`--------------------------------------------MJP'| `-------------------------------------------------' >> >>>>What if two people both start flooding at the same time and you >>>>intermingle? >>> >>>Well you go "CHECK THIS ASCII OUT" and hopefully everyone will shut up >>>until it is done =) I'd imagine the room wouldn't be continuous ascii. >>>It would probably mainly be chat. >> Thats close anyway >>Or maybe have a parallel channel for the flooding, and one for the >>discussion. For instance, one could say in the first channel "Everyone look >>at my ascii in #channel2". That would work. it would work, but isnt very practical. -- _________________________________________________ /| _____________________________________________ | //| | _ _ _ _______ _____ | | // | | | \/ \/ \\__ __\ _ \ .irc.bluedwarf.net.| | //__| | | \ \ \_ \ \ __/ .www.bluedwarf.net.| | \\ | | | \__\ \ \\ \ \ | | \\ | | |_____\ \__\_____\___\ -=MikeChat=- | | \\| |_____________________________________________| | \|_________________________________________________|