Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 May 1998.
AsciiScape
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· 3 messages · 7 May 1998 - 8 May 1998
>btw If diddling feel free to increase the version number in the >browser's title bar :) > >--Ben > > >----5---10----5---20----5---30----5---40----5---50----5---60----5---70--- -5---80----5---90----5--99 > > > >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------+ >| AsciiScape: Version 1.0-00001 >##########################################################mbfh### | > >|------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------| >| _____ _____ ________ _____ _______ ____ ______ ______ >_____ __ ________ | >| | | | | | .''. | | . | | .-. | | :: | | -->o | | | | # # >| / \ | .. | | >| | <-o | | o-> | | | .. | | | .'.'| | | | | | :: | |.'.'.'| | || | >|#####| |STOP| | .''''. | | >| |_____| |_____| |_|_||_|_| |:.'__| |_'.__V_| |____| |______| |_|__|_| >|##_##| \__/ || +--+ || | >| ________________________________________________________ >||_| |_|| | >| Location: |________________________________________________________| >|________| | >| _____________ ______________ ______________ ____________ ________ >__________ | >| | What's New? | | What's Cool? | | Destinations | | Net Search | | People >| | Software | | >| +-------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +------------+ >+--------+ +----------+ | > >|________________________________________________________________________ _________________________| >| >| >| >| >| >| > > > >----5---10----5---20----5---30----5---40----5---50----5---60----5---70--- -5---80----5---90----5--99 > > I couldn't see the whole thing even when I maxed the notepad window, I diddled with it, version 2. :) +------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------+ | AsciiScape: Version 1.0-00002 #################################################mbfh### | |------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------| | _____ _____ ________ _____ _______ ____ ______ ______ _____ __ ________ | | | || || .''. || . || .-. || :: || -->o || || # # | / \ | .. | | | | <-o || o-> || | .. | || .'.'|| | | || :: ||.'.'.'|| || ||#####||STOP| | .''''. | | | |_____||_____||_|_||_|_||:.'__||_'.__V_||____||______||_|__|_||##_##| \__/ || +--+ || | | ________________________________________________________ ||_| |_|| | | Location: |________________________________________________________| |________| | | _____________ ______________ ______________ ____________ ________ __________ | || What's New? || What's Cool? || Destinations || Net Search || People || Software | | |+-------------++--------------++--------------++------------++--------++- ---------+ | |_________________________________________________________________________ _______________| | | | | | | . http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm - Ansi home page FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi - To download the ANSI format
Ben Norwood (bdn...@aber.ac.uk) wrote: : Inspired by a recent flamewar, I now present... AsciiScape. : It (obviously) needs improvement (after all, it is only version 1!), and it : is 99 characters wide, but imho it's a valient attempt at emulating a : well-known *nix browser in ascii (perhaps someone will have a go at M$-IE : sometime)... Now squeeze it to fit in 80 chars and hack a copy of lynx[1] to draw it around the screen. Add mouse support and I'd say you've got something. =) If you really wanted to go for maximum hack value, adding some gifscii code to display images would be really, well, totally useless[2]. [1] Or your favorite text mode browser, whatever it is. [2] Which in this context means that it'd just have to be done. ;) -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen ilt...@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,.
.----- On Thu, 7 May 1998 15:04:52 +0100, Ben Norwood posted: | |Inspired by a recent flamewar, I now present... AsciiScape. |It (obviously) needs improvement (after all, it is only version 1!), and it |is 99 characters wide, but imho it's a valient attempt at emulating a |well-known *nix browser in ascii (perhaps someone will have a go at M$-IE |sometime)... | |btw If diddling feel free to increase the version number in the |browser's title bar :) | '---------------- The Ascii browser I use... .------------------------------------------------. | HyperWeb version 2 [_][O] [X]| |-------------------------------------------+----| |.-----. .-----. .-----. .-----. .-----. | | ||<PREV| |NEXT>| |HOME!| |FIND!| |STOP!| | | |'-----' '-----' '-----' '-----' '-----' +----| |------------------------------------------------| | Address: [___________________________________] | |------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |------------------------------------------------| |Ready. [?]| '------------------------------------------------' |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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