[OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
Okay, this is just too flipping amazing not to pass on. Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl using a standard VT100/ANSI terminal, and you can watch the entire Star Wars: A New Hope movie. In ASCII. I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: Okay, this is just too flipping amazing not to pass on. Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl OMG... Someone should capture this and save it before Lucas finds out about it and

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread John Abreau
Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OMG... Someone should capture this and save it before Lucas finds out about it and shuts the site down completely for copyright infringement... Of course, it's a bit hard to follow when you cat it from a local file... -- John Abreau / Executive

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Actually, it's been up for years (it was even on Slashdot, once). Rumor has it (had it, at least) that Lucas was amused. It wasn't finished when last I saw it -- is it now? -Ken On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 16:29, John Abreau wrote: Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OMG... Someone

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread John Abreau
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, this is just too flipping amazing not to pass on. Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl using a standard VT100/ANSI terminal, and you can watch the entire Star Wars: A New Hope movie. In ASCII. I don't know if I should be

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Richard Soule
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ To watch it in a browser (Also has a link to another short called 'The Death of Jar Jar', in which he gets sucked into a pod racer engine which is really too humane of a way to kill him.) http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ascii_faq.html -- To get some of the story.