Talk: ascii library on a cd-rom disk??? is there any???
Broddi Reyr Hansen <br...@rhi.hi.is> wrote: >I was wondering about it....hmmm... I like this art, just downloaded some >stuff and I liked it :) Its fun making this little pics and viewing them, >but as we all have limited hard disk space I thought if somebody put out >a hole cd-rom disk only with ascii pics. We have disks with gif pictures, >pcx, tiff...et cetera... why not ascii??? It's an interesting idea ... a CD-ROM full of ASCII art. It could have all known ASCII art, all the sigs people are using, tons of sig blanks, pre-made birthday greetings, all the chatter about ASCII art on all the groups, and anything else you could think of to fill 600 megs uncompressed. The problem is that there's no money in it. It would have to be done by somebody who's into the art, not the money. It's now possible to have single copies of CD-ROMs made. And even short runs are cheaper than they once were. Until then, if somebody actually wanted some ASCII art on disc, I imagine a few megs could be compressed onto an HD floppy. ASCII art compresses fairly well (about 3:1). -- . . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. . . ------ ---=- .=-==-= .=#==##= :=##### .##=#= =##==#= . ==-=-- -=- --- --- ------- ---=-= -=-====# =#==#=#= #=###= =#=#== #=#==##= -=-==--- =-- .=-- --- --- --- . =-= :=-= -== :=## ### :::##= :..=#= .=== ==- .=-- -=- --- --- ------ -=- . -=-==-== =#==##= :#=### :##= .:.#===#== .-=- .-=- =-= -=- --- ------ --- .. --==--== ==##== .:####= :=#= ::.=#=#== ..==- --= -=- .--- --- --- =-- . -== .=-= #=# =## :### :::##= :..#=# === .=-- .-=- =-- =-- --- ------- ----=- =-= .-== =#= :##= =##### =##==# =#= .#== ==--=--- -=----------- ------ -=-== -=- :=-= =## .=## #=###= .##=#= ##= .=#= -==--= .=-=--=----- . . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. . .
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