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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

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.

For Unix users there is a similar project called Twin, at
http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/
which is kind of a text mode windowing system.

ObASCII: another important app
_____________             _______
| AsciiMine |_____________|- + x|
|     [007]    :-(    [016]     |
| ,---------------------------. |
| |[!] 1           1 [!] 1    | |
| | 1  1           1  1  1    | |
| |    1  2  2  2  1  1       | |
| |    1 (*)(*)[ ](*) 1       | |
| | 1  2 [ ](*)[ ] 1  1       | |
| |(*) 2  2 [?][ ] 1          | |
| |[ ]{*} 1 [ ](*) 2  1  1    | |
| |(X) 1  1  1  1  2 (*) 1    | |
| |                1 [ ] 1    | |
| `---------------------------' |
|_______________________________|

-- 
Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)

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