Re: Boomer.VT

In alt.ascii-art.animation, Colin Randall  <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi ... i fully expect any/all transports to strip the 'escape' chars 
> from what follows ... thus will need patching-up

Yeah. Some of the escape codes made it through, but it gets garbled
after a while. The guy throws the boomerang and then when it starts
to return there's a mess. (I suspect there's supposed to be a messy
end, but NOT three boomerangs at once.)

I think I fixed it. I suspect what got stripped was trailing white
space, not control characters. Extra spaces are an easy way to erase
things, after all. I also added a clear screen / cursor hide at the top
and then a cursor unhide at the end.

I checked it in to my collection of Vt100 animations and viewer:

https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat

The raw fixed animation is here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/master/videos/other/boomer.vt

> Boomer.VT
> ----8<----cut-here----8<----cut-here----8<----cut-here
> 
> pictures: Matthew Thomas

First one I have credited to him. Plays well at 2400 baud (with my tool:
"slowcat -b 2400 boomer.vt")

Elijah
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and it had nothing to do with baby boomers or explosions