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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Nov 2002.

                            
    
    
Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS

                    

                        From Tom Bampton <mol...@yahoo.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 12 Nov 2002 16:14                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
"Harry Mason" <spa...@no.spam> wrote in message
news:slr...@skeleton.ecs.soton.ac.uk...
> On 11 Nov 2002 23:23:04 GMT, CyberNerdX <cyb...@cs.com> wrote:
> > i think this would kinda be cool, i mean it wouldnt actually be an OS but
kinda
> > like a .exe program and if u wanted to, could make it start when windows
> > starts, i would really like to make something like this, i only know QBASIC
> > though so if someone else know that they can help me.
>
> In the spirit of ascii-art it should really be written in something portable.
> I'd probably recommend Perl for this sort of thing.

I was going to do something in C or C++. Probably C. Pure ANSI C using ncurses
would be fairly portable (ncurses has been ported to loads of OSs) and provides
quite a few low-level things that would be needed.

> ObASCII: another important app
> _____________             _______
> | AsciiMine |_____________|- + x|

Oh god ... save me ... must ... do ... ascii ... arrg!

ObASCII:

_____________             _______
| AsciiSol  |_____________|- + x|
|.--. .--,   .--. .--. .--. .--.|
||##| |5D|   |  | |  | |  | |  ||
|`--' `--'   `--' `--' `--' `--'|
| .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. |
| |  | .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. |
| `--' |  | .--. .--. .--. .--. |
|      `--' .--. .--. .--. .--. |
|           |  | .--. .--. .--. |
|           `--' |  | .--. .--. |
|                `--' |  | .--. |
|                     `--' |  | |
|                          `--' |
|_______________________________|

Had to be done. Sorry :(



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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