X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c6e481008dbdedf3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-12 08:14:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Tom Bampton" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:14:54 -0000 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <20021111182304.22996.00000144@mb-bh.news.cs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edendev.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1037117694 17472 193.237.172.117 (12 Nov 2002 16:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:14:54 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20579 "Harry Mason" wrote in message news:slrnat28cb.2eb.spam@skeleton.ecs.soton.ac.uk... > 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. I was going to do something in C or C++. Probably C. Pure ANSI C using ncurses would be fairly portable (ncurses has been ported to loads of OSs) and provides quite a few low-level things that would be needed. > ObASCII: another important app > _____________ _______ > | AsciiMine |_____________|- + x| Oh god ... save me ... must ... do ... ascii ... arrg! ObASCII: _____________ _______ | AsciiSol |_____________|- + x| |.--. .--, .--. .--. .--. .--.| ||##| |5D| | | | | | | | || |`--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'| | .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. | | | | .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. | | `--' | | .--. .--. .--. .--. | | `--' .--. .--. .--. .--. | | | | .--. .--. .--. | | `--' | | .--. .--. | | `--' | | .--. | | `--' | | | | `--' | |_______________________________| Had to be done. Sorry :(