ASCII

[Scott Stevens]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:04:49 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:41 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:
> > figlet does only this:
> > 
> > tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
> >    __
> >   / _| ___   ___ 
> > | |_ / _ \ / _ \ 
> > |  _| (_) | (_) |
> > |_|  \___/ \___/
> 
> That reminded me that I haven't run 'banner' in years. Many an hour
> was wasted at uni with everyone piping banner output to the write
> command... labs used to be awash with the sounds of terminals beeping.
> 
> Banner seems to still be here on this desktop (Slackware 10) and the
> ASCII-rendered letter quality has improved vastly over the years!
> 
> On a related note, I think there's a plugin/patch for SVGALib under
> Linux to render everything in ASCII, which is what made running Doom
> from a VT220 possible (not particularly usable, but it works! ;)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules
> 
> 
> 

I believe hearing about (and seeing) a whole rendering of Star Wars for
ASCII.  Unfortunately, I remember it being 'released' as a MacroMedia
Flash object.

-scott