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From: "Christian Garbs [Master Mitch]" <mitch@mitch.h.shuttle.de>
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Subject: Re: Ascii-artist's dream...
Date: 3 Jan 2002 20:50:57 +0100
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Poster <Poster@nospam.net> wrote:

> Why don't you try Turbo C... Turbo C++

I don't want to write my own applications. With aalib/GGI I can just
start any graphical application (Netscape, Star Office, enlightenment,
KDE, Gnome, whatever) in "ASCII mode" without any modifications.

> Now that those are WAY too old to be used, I guess the Licensing on
> them has been removed by Borland. But all the same, all programs
> that were built on TurboC, FoxPro, dBase were ASCII based, but YES!!
> No Graphics in ASCII as now. Just some representations. coz the
> screen is very small 80x24 chars

As I said, resolution is pretty low for real graphical
applications. But with 132x50 (quite a "standard" text mode), you
might be able to recognize something ;-) If you don't sit close to
your screen, the resolution is sufficient to watch tv in ascii (aatv
sure is a nice thing).

If you're looking for something like a console window manager in
ASCII, then have a look at twin. It's user interface looks like
TurboC, dBase & Co mentioned above: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twin/

Regards,
Christian
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....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de
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