X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c6e481008dbdedf3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-12 07:51:09 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Harry Mason Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS References: <20021111182304.22996.00000144@mb-bh.news.cs.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: skeleton.ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: 12 Nov 2002 15:43:07 GMT X-Trace: 12 Nov 2002 15:43:07 GMT, skeleton.ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 32 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!news-spool.soton.ac.uk!news.ecs.soton.ac.uk!skeleton.ecs.soton.ac.uk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20578 On 11 Nov 2002 23:23:04 GMT, CyberNerdX wrote: > i think this would kinda be cool, i mean it wouldnt actually be an OS but kinda > like a .exe program and if u wanted to, could make it start when windows > starts, i would really like to make something like this, i only know QBASIC > though so if someone else know that they can help me. In the spirit of ascii-art it should really be written in something portable. I'd probably recommend Perl for this sort of thing. For Unix users there is a similar project called Twin, at http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/ which is kind of a text mode windowing system. ObASCII: another important app _____________ _______ | AsciiMine |_____________|- + x| | [007] :-( [016] | | ,---------------------------. | | |[!] 1 1 [!] 1 | | | | 1 1 1 1 1 | | | | 1 2 2 2 1 1 | | | | 1 (*)(*)[ ](*) 1 | | | | 1 2 [ ](*)[ ] 1 1 | | | |(*) 2 2 [?][ ] 1 | | | |[ ]{*} 1 [ ](*) 2 1 1 | | | |(X) 1 1 1 1 2 (*) 1 | | | | 1 [ ] 1 | | | `---------------------------' | |_______________________________| -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)