Animated images that can be displayed on a DEC VT100

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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:24:48 +0300 (EEST)
From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@st.jyu.fi>
To: Richard Shuford
Subject: About VT-animations

I am talking about this doc:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/vt100_animation_news.txt

All FTP and WWW URLs in that document are non-functional.

Fortunately, there exist www.textfiles.com. Check it out!

    http://www.textfiles.com/

-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * U of Jyvskyl * juhtolv@st.jyu.fi
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    As of Thursday, 6 July A.D. 2000, in addition to
    the collection Juhapekka points out, there is
    still a ZIP file of VT100 animations available
    (by anonymous FTP) from St. Peter's College:

    ftp://ftp.spc.edu/VMSLT97A/VMSLT97A/FTP_HHS_DK/ANIMATIONS.ZIP

with the following contents:

Archive:  animations.zip
 Length    Date    Time    Name
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   6727  12-17-95  12:30   fireworks.vt
  19159  12-17-95  12:30   nasa.vt
  10610  12-17-95  12:30   snowing.vt
  13114  12-17-95  12:30   turkey.vt
  46046  12-17-95  12:31   xmas.vt
  16384  12-17-95  12:31   xmasshort.vt
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From: frzmtdb@aspentec.com
Subject: Re: Tools to create VT100 animations??.. ftp site


In article <1993Mar3.175255.934@aspentec.com>, frzmtdb@aspentec.com writes:
> In article <1993Mar2.122536.933@aspentec.com>, frzmtdb@aspentec.com writes:
>> I've fetched many "vt100-animations" over the last few months
>> from various and sundry FTP sites on the Internet.
>> 
>> My question is:  How have folks created these files?  
>> Are  there any tools with which to build these vt100 animations?
>> 
>> Or do people (gulp!!) use a text-editor to painstakingly craft
>> these things?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Fred
>> 

my apologizes.. the directory was WRONG in my previous followup.

LOOK IN:  quartz.rutgers.edu(128.6.60.6  /pub/computer/vt100

The following animations are online
 cowscene.vt.Z     snowing.vt.Z           twilight.zone.Z
 fireworks.Z       startrek.Z             valentine.vt.Z
 glass.vt.Z        thanksgiving.vt.Z      xmas.Z
 nasa.vt.Z         torture.vt.Z
 outerlimit.Z      turkey.vt.Z

> 
> Gee.. there is a LOT of interest in this (seemingly) simple topic.
> I'll post a summary of the tools I've gathered over the next few
> days, but until then, the best FTP site i've found is:
>   
> quartz.rutgers.edu (128.6.60.6)
> look in /pub/vt100                   

look in /pub/computer/vt100  
> 
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 [Update:  The Quartz BBS went off the net in 1994.
           Some of the materials are preserved online at www.etext.org,
           however, the URL of interest here

                http://www.etext.org/Quartz/computer/vt100/index.html

           is not working as of spring 1997. ]


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Subject: Re: Tools to create VT100 animations??


In article <76817@cup.portal.com>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
>Fred R. Ziegler <ziegler@aspentec.com>  writes:
>>I've fetched many "vt100-animations" [...]
>>
>> [...] How have folks created these files?  
>>Are  there any tools with which to build these vt100 animations?
>
>I used to wonder about that, too, but then I figured it out.
>
>My method of choice would be to write a program that generated the 
>desired display using SMG$ or (cringe) VAX C Curses (an aptly named
>facility if ever there was one; I curse every time I use it), then
>capture its doings via SET HOST/LOG or a similar technique.
>
>Chris Chiesa
>  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com

Actually, there are public domain ANSI-animation programs often used by BBS's
for creating similar animations.

And the ANSI terminal specification is a superset of the common VT1xx
protocols.  I've tried using ANSI animations on my VT100 emulation program, as
well as on hardware VT2xx and VT3xx terminals around campus; they work fine.

Alex

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Subject: Re: Tools to create vt100 animation, and the films themselves
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Well, since everyone seems interested in the films, my site happens to have 
them online.  

ftp nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov  login as anonymous and cd [.images.vt100]

Dave Stern

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From: omond@embl-heidelberg.de (Roy Omond)
Subject: Re: Tools to create VT100 animations??


In article <9303041439.AA00998@relay1.UU.NET>, raxco!galaxy.dnet!gleeve@uunet.UU.NET writes:
> Long ago & far away there was a program called FILM which ran on
> VMS (1.5 or so??) and created many of the legendary animations
> (e.g. BLOB, Bambi vs. Godzilla, Mr. Bill's VT52 & the repairman, etc.)
> that existed for VT100. Its input files were series of pictures
> fully drawn for each "frame" of the animation, and it produced
> the screen operations to transform them. As I think of it, such
> a thing is what SMG$ or curses() is good at,. though I suspect
> FILM may have used one of the old TECO screen modules, that having
> been generally available at the time and not too bad at the same
> job.
>    The artistic value of such animations clearly is in the drawing
> of the frames, no mean feat.
>    I'm wondering, though...could the FILM program be out there
> somewhere to this day? (It doesn't show up on the aaareadme files
> for the sigtapes, though PAINT340 on the Fall '88 tapes mentions
> animation as among its capabilities.)
> (gee...where could I read some of the old 800BPI tapes I have
> around from the late 70s? Wonder if any of the bits are left ;-) )
> Glenn
> Everhart@raxco.com

Yep,  I still have it around.  Glenn, should I send it to you to (re-)add
it to the sigtapes ?  I don't have any source though ...

Directory [GAMES.FILM]

BAMBI.FLM;2              38/39       2-JAN-1981 00:00:00.00
BB.FLM;1                  9/9        1-SEP-1981 00:00:00.00
BLOB.FLM;2               37/39      28-JAN-1980 00:00:00.00
DUEL.FLM;2               30/30      28-JAN-1980 00:00:00.00
FILM.EXE;1               17/18      28-JAN-1980 00:00:00.00
GO.FLM;1                  2/3        8-JAN-1981 00:00:00.00
HEIN.FLM;1                5/6       19-NOV-1980 00:00:00.00
MRBILL.FLM;2             77/78      13-FEB-1980 00:00:00.00
OSCAR.FLM;2              16/18      28-JAN-1980 00:00:00.00
PORSCHE.FLM;2             3/3       28-OCT-1980 00:00:00.00

Total of 10 files, 234/243 blocks.


Roy Omond
System Manager/PostMaster etc. etc.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany.


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From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Tools to create VT100 animations??


In article <76817@cup.portal.com>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
>Fred R. Ziegler <ziegler@aspentec.com>  writes:
>
>>I've fetched many "vt100-animations" [...]
>>
>> [...] How have folks created these files?  
>>Are  there any tools with which to build these vt100 animations?
>
>I used to wonder about that, too, but then I figured it out.
>
>My method of choice would be to write a program that generated the 
>desired display using SMG$ or (cringe) VAX C Curses (an aptly named
>facility if ever there was one; I curse every time I use it), then
>capture its doings via SET HOST/LOG or a similar technique.
>
>Chris Chiesa
>  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com

Actually, there are public domain ANSI-animation programs often used by BBS's
for creating similar animations.

And the ANSI terminal specification is a superset of the common VT1xx
protocols.  I've tried using ANSI animations on my VT100 emulation program, as
well as on hardware VT2xx and VT3xx terminals around campus; they work fine.

Alex


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From: Nick de Smith <DESMITH_N@COLLOQUIUM.CO.UK>
Subject: RE: tools to create vt100 animations??

Hi,

In article <9303041439.AA00998@relay1.UU.NET>,
 raxco!galaxy.dnet!gleeve@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>
>Long ago & far away there was a program called FILM which ran on
>VMS (1.5 or so??) and created many of the legendary animations
>(e.g. BLOB, Bambi vs. Godzilla, Mr. Bill's VT52 & the repairman, etc.)
>that existed for VT100. Its input files were series of pictures
>fully drawn for each "frame" of the animation, and it produced
>the screen operations to transform them. As I think of it, such
>a thing is what SMG$ or curses() is good at,. though I suspect
>FILM may have used one of the old TECO screen modules, that having
>been generally available at the time and not too bad at the same
>job.

Glenn, Hi!

The earliest copy of FILM that I have is from 1981, but others have also
responded to this. However, who out there ever used PECO (Picture Editor and
Corrector)? PECO used VMS libraries (xxx.PLB) to hold multiple frames and was a
really nice VTxx editor for moving images - it allowed dissolves, merges insets
and overlays. When I worked for DEC is was in the TOOLSHED (now the ASSETS
library), and, if anyone in DEC who knows about it is listening, it may be able
to be released into the public domain. PECO is in a league apart from FILM, and
is FAR more powerful. It has a Reference Manual of 160 blocks and a 483 block
function manual. Loads of features, loads of fun!

Nick
Glenn, drop me a line...


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I found FILM (.exe only!) along with some of the film's that go with
it (*.FLM).  FTP to HYLKA.HELSINKI.FI and cd to [.games-etc.film], 
there is also a *great* space invaders clone for vt100's and up in 
[.games-etc] (space.exe).

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From: raxco!galaxy.dnet!gleeve@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: gonzo.flm


Gonzo.flm was on an older RSX SIG tape and is a pure sequence of VT100
escape sequences. It depicts a "privileged user's first program",
showing a shooting gallery in which a PDP11 shoots down user
programs, but is bombed by the user program (which overwrites
APR 0 where RSX lives), resulting in a spectacular crash and
set of error "dumps" with some partial registers longer than
16 bits (neat trick on an 11) designed to make it look as though
the machine just crashed. 

   It was one of the tapes done back in the early 80s away from the
symposium; I remember how we all laughed at it. For awhile I used to
have the system set to type it whenever someone typed an erroneous
command. (*I* knew to use control-O).
:-)
Glenn
everhart@raxco.com

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Subject: vt-100 animations-summary

I got several replies and a request for a summary. there is a collection of
vt-100 escape sequence anamations, it can be found on:

    nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov

in the directory 

    .images.vt100

cheers

kc

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