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Star Wars movie in ascii

Submitted by coius on April 17, 2006 - 2:18am. Unix and Mac OS X

ok people. Any teckies out there? How about star wars fans?

ok, how'z about watching star wars in ascii characters?

paste this into your terminal: (can also be linux)

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Enjoy.

**if you have IPV 6, you can see it in color. Anyone know how to get OS X terminal to do this?

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VLC today!

Submitted by reklus on April 17, 2006 - 2:26am.

Actually, you can do it from the start menu in windows too! just go to start, run and copy the telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and voila!

As a funny note to this, just today I was experimenting with using VLC's ascii output mode to output realtime color ascii of the input from my DV cam. It looks crappy, but it works well enough that I'll be using it with an lcd projector for my band's next show. You can take any video source and change it to color ascii using vlc and it looks watchable, actually even more watchable than the deep throat ascii thingie that was floated around a few years ago by those people doing that thing.

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i wish i could view it in Os

Submitted by madmax_2069 on April 17, 2006 - 3:59am.

i wish i could view it in Os 9.2.2 but i dont think there is any thing to view it

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Wow

Submitted by merty on April 17, 2006 - 9:00am.

Wow that is a good find Smiling

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X2. would be cool, but no ter

Submitted by iamdigitalman on April 17, 2006 - 9:51am.

X2. would be cool, but no terminal!!

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Re: i wish i could view it in Os

Submitted by DrBunsen on April 17, 2006 - 3:15pm.
madmax_2069 wrote:
i wish i could view it in Os 9.2.2 but i dont think there is any thing to view it

Download a telnet client. I mean you could watch this on a Mac Plus, or even a ][.

BTW, nerdiest post ever Smiling

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OS 9/8

Submitted by catmistake on April 17, 2006 - 3:58pm.

sure there is...you just need a terminal emulator (its ASCII, man... this will work... pretty much anywhere)
legacy terminal applications

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wow this is so cool

Submitted by madmax_2069 on April 17, 2006 - 7:16pm.

wow this is so cool

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nice, but it is flickering wa

Submitted by iamdigitalman on April 17, 2006 - 7:36pm.

nice, but it is flickering way too much. and I allocated a full 2mb of ram to it, like it said. any way to stop the flickering? I am using the second term emu on the list, the one that can do TCP/IP. zterm doenst work.

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The difference is that this w

Submitted by Jon on April 18, 2006 - 12:46pm.

The difference is that this was hand "drawn" in text instead of being converted by a program. THis is very simple and stylized compared to any direct video conversion I've seen. There's also a clip fo the Matrix in ASCII around somewhere.

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help with VLC ascii output

Submitted by dead_elvis on April 18, 2006 - 9:45pm.

I'm trying to figure out how to get ascii output with VLC. I'm on a mac, VLC version 0.8.4. According to the website, ascii output works in the Mac version.

I can't find any options for it anywhere in any menus. I read documentation that tells the options for video output from the command line, which says use the argument "-vout caca" When I did that I got

"no suitable access module for `caca'

I don't seem to be on the right track.

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