Re: Who the hell is Tua Xiong and why is he respected?
Stuart Moore wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:10:33 -0700, Aiken Drum <aik...@eskimo.com> > enlightened us with: > > > He stole the ASCII dragon I designed for a friend's BBS called > > Benden Weyr (FidoNet 1:140/22.0, sysop Ken Read) back in the 80's. > > Do you still have a copy of the finished version? Well, I resurrected my old Amiga, long buried in the garage, bought new roms for it so it would actually boot up (amazing what you can buy on the Internet :), and managed to retrieve both versions off of the remarkably-intact hard drive. Note: These were meant for 80x24 DOS screens, so the aspect ratio isn't quite right, at least not in my news reader, and I expected tildes to be at the top of each character cell rather than in the middle. Ah well. Substitute double-quotes for the tildes in a modern font, or look at these in a dos box. :) Here's the original (weyr1.txt): __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ \_-~~- \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ \_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ Benden Weyr UUCP / \ \__ \/~ \__ Sask_Net Node 22 _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. 300/1200/2400bps ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~; \--______________--~~ Sysop: Ken Read //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ Net Coordinator //.-~~~--\ BF '87 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- First time users: REAL names only! And here's the second edition (weyr2.txt), revised to be more like the artwork Michael Whelan did for the Pern (Benden Weyr) series of books, without spikes and with more of an arcing crest on top of the head: _..---~~~~~~~~~~~----..__ _ //====...... _.--~~ _/ \ |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ...---==-_ _-~~- \| ||| \\ .-` ..--~~ ./ |\\=_ \_--~/.-'| ||| \\ ./ .-~ / | \\-_ '-~7 / / || \ / ~~~~~~--. / \ \\ -_ / / / || \ / \ / | \\ ~-_/ |__./ _|| \ / |-~~~~-._ \ `==-/ ----=-~ .| -.| / . ~\-~~ _.--~~ '--./ | | ~\_ .-~ /\ Benden Weyr UUCP / \ \__ \/~ \__ Sask_Net Node 1:140/22 _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-. ~~==. 300/1200/2400 baud ((->/~ `.|||' | ~. _|| -_ ~\ ~~--..________.--~~_/ Sysop: Ken Read _-~-__ ~; \ __.-~~ (Net Coordinator) //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ BF '91 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- First time users: REAL names only! That's it. My wife says the spiky one looks better. :) BF
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