X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,2edf1d803d783912 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-29 23:39:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mb.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BB6C106.74124077@textfiles.com> From: BMC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Who the hell is Tua Xiong and why is he respected? References: <3B4412E9.69F3C69D@eskimo.com> <3b444308.369270@news.ntlworld.com> <3B551CC9.319FB421@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 79 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 06:39:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.66.251.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mb.home.com 1001831991 24.66.251.222 (Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:39:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:39:51 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:8190 I used to call Benden Weyr. All I remember about it was that there were no door games (I was young). Aiken Drum wrote: > Stuart Moore wrote: > > > > On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:10:33 -0700, Aiken Drum > > enlightened us with: > > > > > He stole the ASCII dragon I designed for a friend's BBS called > > > Benden Weyr (FidoNet 1:140/22.0, sysop Ken Read) back in the 80's. > > > > Do you still have a copy of the finished version? > > Well, I resurrected my old Amiga, long buried in the garage, bought new roms > for it so it would actually boot up (amazing what you can buy on the Internet > :), and managed to retrieve both versions off of the remarkably-intact hard > drive. > > Note: These were meant for 80x24 DOS screens, so the aspect ratio isn't quite > right, at least not in my news reader, and I expected tildes to be at the top > of each character cell rather than in the middle. Ah well. Substitute > double-quotes for the tildes in a modern font, or look at these in a dos box. > :) > > Here's the original (weyr1.txt): > > __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ > . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ > -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ > ___-==_ \_-~~- \/ ||| \\ _/~~- > __---~~~.==~||\=_ \_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ > _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / > .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / > / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / > |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ > ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ > |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ > Benden Weyr UUCP / \ \__ \/~ \__ > Sask_Net Node 22 _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. > 300/1200/2400bps ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| > -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ > _-~-__ ~; \--______________--~~ > Sysop: Ken Read //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ > Net Coordinator //.-~~~--\ BF '87 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > First time users: REAL names only! > > And here's the second edition (weyr2.txt), revised to be more like the artwork > Michael Whelan did for the Pern (Benden Weyr) series of books, without spikes > and with more of an arcing crest on top of the head: > > _..---~~~~~~~~~~~----..__ > _ //====...... _.--~~ > _/ \ |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ > ...---==-_ _-~~- \| ||| \\ .-` > ..--~~ ./ |\\=_ \_--~/.-'| ||| \\ ./ > .-~ / | \\-_ '-~7 / / || \ / > ~~~~~~--. / \ \\ -_ / / / || \ / > \ / | \\ ~-_/ |__./ _|| \ / > |-~~~~-._ \ `==-/ ----=-~ .| > -.| / . ~\-~~ _.--~~ > '--./ | | ~\_ .-~ /\ > Benden Weyr UUCP / \ \__ \/~ \__ > Sask_Net Node 1:140/22 _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-. ~~==. > 300/1200/2400 baud ((->/~ `.|||' | ~. _|| > -_ ~\ ~~--..________.--~~_/ > Sysop: Ken Read _-~-__ ~; \ __.-~~ > (Net Coordinator) //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~ > //.-~~~--\ BF '91 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > First time users: REAL names only! > > That's it. My wife says the spiky one looks better. :) > > BF