Re: MikeChat: Where is ASCII on IRC?

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 03:14:24 +0800, Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote:

>hola drsquare, soy una robusteza!
>>On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:24:58 +0800, in alt.ascii-art,
>> (Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>) wrote:
>>>hola drsquare, soy una robusteza!
>>>>>Looks like you are the one to ask Mike. Where are they posting ascii
>>>>>art (coloured or otherwise) on IRC these days? I went to a channel
>>>>>ages ago and had a nice time. Even saw what some of them had done with
>>>>>ascii I made. Anyway, I have looked on IRC but not found any this
>>>>>time.
>>>>>
>>>>>Mike or anyone have a list?
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm...how would an ascii-art channel work? Would you flood your pictures
>>>>into the channel?
>>>

texts are "played" to an IRC channel with the speed controlled to prevent 
flooding.

the command for a Plain text kept in C:\mirc\ASCII\ named big_head.txt
would be played with the command /play C:\mirc\ASCII\big_head.txt 1000

people would then see:

                                         .-----------------------.
                       _____             |RIGHT you bunch of     |
             _.- .==-`::..,===...        |quivering Nancy boys,  |
           .'.--/_:.--``` - ._``|        |get your lot moving and|
          '| ..-`:-`:::::::;```  \       |lets see if you can    |
         /|//'```````---.=..-`--`+       |hold your water        |
          |||/ .'`````` /   _...  \      |in the face of IRC,    |
          ||/ ' ...__.'.` .::''':. ;     |the Ultimate Evil      |
          ||./.'_,--.:::     .--`  /     `--------.  .-----------'
          ||/ .-|| . |::    `  o)  \             /.-'
          | /.| .\: (        `..'  `\          .'
          .|'/ /| `.._|\             \
       ,  || |`./   `-'         ( `   )
      -``, |.`./      |           .--`
     |   \    |       \       .--._)
    /'.,  \   |        ;\   .;'-'\|
   /    '. `-,|         `\    `'--.
  `      `-._  `,,        ,`      _)
 |...- ```  `,_   `-,      ;-,    |
 |   _....---'`____ ``--,   .,_-..'
.` |-                    ``, |
|  /     |---``:::;-        `-\_
|_      +           `,         \
 `|    /             `-,        \
 |    '                `,       `|
 |   /                   `,      |
  ` |.                    `   MJP|.
displayed in the channel with a one second delay between lines (horizontaly)

a scripted shortcut _might_ be like this depending where in mIRC it was used

in "alias.ini":
/playtxt {
var %text = $dir== *.txt
var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100)
.play # %text %speed
}

or in "remote.ini"
alias playtxt {
var %text = $dir== *.txt
var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100)
.play $chan %text %speed
}

With either you would type /playtxt and then be able to select a file to "play"

$dir== *.txt is a wildcard that allows you to find a file without knowing the 
full path and the script calculates the length of the file to set the delay
time between posted lines to prevent flooding.

I made a change that shows the file info:
/playtxt {
  var %text = $dir== *.txt
  var %speed = $calc($lines(%text) * 100)
  echo -a %text $lines(%text) lines at %speed 
  .play # %text %speed
}


using this I "played" an ASCII-ified comic based on an e-mail joke I received.
the following is what is displayed in channel

C:\mIRC\ALTASCII\arab_joke.txt 27 lines at 2700 <-- local "echo" only
<MikeChat> ,--------------.
<MikeChat> | |\|OW  ___   |
<MikeChat> |    and  |HEN `----------------------------------.
<MikeChat> |,-----------------------------------------------.|
<MikeChat> ||           Can you answer         I'll try     ||
<MikeChat> ||     _-.   a question about        \           ||
<MikeChat> ||    (_\\)  your country?              WWW      ||
<MikeChat> ||    c%OO       _/                    OO-,      ||
<MikeChat> ||     %%%                            (=         ||
<MikeChat> ||      %%                                       ||
<MikeChat> |`-----------------------------------------------'|
<MikeChat> |,-----------------------------------------------.|
<MikeChat> ||           In your American                    ||
<MikeChat> ||    _-.   "TV" show Star Trek                  ||
<MikeChat> ||   (_\\)   There are no Arabs         WWW      ||
<MikeChat> ||   c%OO    Why is this?              OO-,      ||
<MikeChat> ||    %%%        _/                   (=         ||
<MikeChat> ||     %%                                        ||
<MikeChat> |`-----------------------------------------------'|
<MikeChat> |,-----------------------------------------------.|
<MikeChat> ||      _-.       That is because Star Trek      ||
<MikeChat> ||     (_\\)      is a show about      wWw       ||
<MikeChat> ||     c(o)(o)    the FUTURE           O-O       ||
<MikeChat> ||      %%%                  \_       ( = )      ||
<MikeChat> ||       %%                                      ||
<MikeChat> |`--------------------------------------------MJP'|
<MikeChat> `-------------------------------------------------'



>>
>>>>What if two people both start flooding at the same time and you
>>>>intermingle?
>>>
>>>Well you go "CHECK THIS ASCII OUT" and hopefully everyone will shut up
>>>until it is done =) I'd imagine the room wouldn't be continuous ascii.
>>>It would probably mainly be chat.
>>

Thats close anyway


>>Or maybe have a parallel channel for the flooding, and one for the
>>discussion. For instance, one could say in the first channel "Everyone look
>>at my ascii in #channel2". That would work.

it would work, but isnt very practical.



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