Not sure what to title this...
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Not sure what to title this... 'We come in peace'? dunno... but very interesting
http://www.lhasa.nu/~klue/bio/ is found somewhere at the top of the alien's head, however the server seems to be down right now. It's a great piece of art
posted by starduck at 5:27 PM on June 14, 2000
posted by starduck at 5:27 PM on June 14, 2000
It's kinda slow to load. hehe
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 6:30 PM on June 14, 2000
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 6:30 PM on June 14, 2000
I'm wondering what the code is. I'm guessing it's a CGI script (with all the HTTP_REFERER stuff going on) in either C or Perl. There's lots of semi-colons and braces and a couple of ++'s. Does Perl use the increment operator?
Maybe EMCAScript.
posted by cCranium at 6:31 PM on June 14, 2000
Maybe EMCAScript.
posted by cCranium at 6:31 PM on June 14, 2000
Yup, it's perl alright, though it's not complete, perl 5.005 barfs up on it.
posted by fvw at 7:25 PM on June 14, 2000
posted by fvw at 7:25 PM on June 14, 2000
that's too bad. I have a shirt from a programming contest at notre dame that has the notre dame symbol in c++ code.
It's been a while since I tried it, but typing it in didn't yield any results.
posted by cCranium at 7:36 PM on June 14, 2000
It's been a while since I tried it, but typing it in didn't yield any results.
posted by cCranium at 7:36 PM on June 14, 2000
I love ascii/ansi art. A while back we were talking here about that. I used to spend hours and hours trying to get ANSI escape codes to just blink, or move, or display a nice menu for a bbs. Then "TheDraw" came out... that changed everything. I miss those days a lot, sometimes.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 8:01 PM on June 14, 2000
posted by Dean_Paxton at 8:01 PM on June 14, 2000
Speaking of which, I'm curious as to how many of you were on BBSes way back when?
posted by jbeaumont at 10:15 PM on June 14, 2000
posted by jbeaumont at 10:15 PM on June 14, 2000
Some of the old ANSI art that got passed around BBSes (uhh.. you can count me in on that old-time BBSer poll jbeaumont) was just phenominal.
That and the old-skool demos, written in assembly. 20k for a seriously excellent animation.
posted by cCranium at 5:42 AM on June 15, 2000
That and the old-skool demos, written in assembly. 20k for a seriously excellent animation.
posted by cCranium at 5:42 AM on June 15, 2000
I want the program that reads the image file and the text file and generates the output, myself...
posted by baylink at 7:02 AM on June 15, 2000
posted by baylink at 7:02 AM on June 15, 2000
There are still a handfull of demo teams out there, they are just hard to find. But the programs aren't near as amazing, some are sloppy and large..
posted by jamescblack at 8:51 AM on June 15, 2000
posted by jamescblack at 8:51 AM on June 15, 2000
BBSes and the DemoScene? this will bring back demo memories. . .
posted by jamescblack at 10:30 AM on June 15, 2000
posted by jamescblack at 10:30 AM on June 15, 2000
there is still a GIF2ANS utility, you can find it on almost any shareware site... that does a fair job of things. From there you can pretty do anything with it. The color values are in there...
As for the demoscene... the original future crew archives are at: http://www.futurecrew.org/
posted by Dean_Paxton at 12:58 PM on June 15, 2000
As for the demoscene... the original future crew archives are at: http://www.futurecrew.org/
posted by Dean_Paxton at 12:58 PM on June 15, 2000
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