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Talking Sandwich
08-19-2005, 08:25 PM
Click Start then hit RUN then type
"telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" (no quotes)
Whole star wars movie in ascii . . awesome!
larryhead
08-19-2005, 10:02 PM
I can't even imagine how long that took to make.. very cool though!
Padrote
08-19-2005, 10:20 PM
I watched about 2 minute. how long does it go on for?
Nerds : How long would you estimate it took to do this?
Diamond Vision
08-20-2005, 01:09 PM
i had it running in the background of my desktop for a while... i think it stopped just before the "Rescue Lea from the Detention Cell" scene.
how long would it take? Probably the most time consuming part would be the dialog entry. i never did mush ascii programming but i played around with still characters and once you get the hang of it, drawing goes pretty fast. When I was a kid i loved to make movies in LogoWriter on my AppleIIe, tho. I imagine it's a lot the same... set up a scene, have sub-programs for your character design and then just move them around. I would estimate a devoted programmer could whip that out in a couple weeks to a month.
just an uneducated hypothesis tho.
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