Re: ByteStew
From R L Samuell <see...@end.to_mail_to.us>
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· 26 Oct 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <381...@news.dial.pipex.com> dated Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:19:25 GMT, n...@spam.please.com (Arcain) wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:55:37 GMT, see_URL_in.sig@end.to_mail_to.us (R L > Samuell) wrote: > >> Though not strictly an example of ASCII art, "ByteStew" is the title of >> an instance of a related class of program-generated animations. The >> original twelve-year-old program written in GW-BASIC randomly and >> endlessly writes individual bytes with different colored backgrounds >> directly to the DOS screen buffer of a PC fast enough that it gives the >> impression that the screen is 'boiling' with bytes-- hence, the >> allusion to a bubbling 'byte stew.' > > Here's a tiny Turbo Pascal program which'll do the same thing, and > probably a hell of a lot quicker than GW-BASIC. More speed may not necessarily be an improvement. A compiled C version I wrote lost the appearance of 'bubbling' to become just an unpleasant blur. Regards, R L Samuell -- Web: http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/ Email: http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/mailto/typogrammer ObASCII: "gibbeous_moon( C )" Copyright: (c) 1999 R L Samuell, All Rights Reserved.
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