Re: slowcat and vt100 animations

On Sunday, 23 August 2020 at 01:59:38 UTC+1, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> Over in comp.sys.raspberry-pi a few days ago someone mentioned the 
> Andalusian Video Snail animation, but lamented he couldn't find it. I 
> found it, and a player called slowcat.c, but it didn't play right. 
> 
> I've rewritten slowcat.c to be more effective at slowly cating files, 
> and am releasing it with a large collection of videos. 
> 
> Code plus videos: 
> https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/ 
> 
> And blog post: 
> https://qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2020/08/22/slowcat 
> 
> You'll likely need a Unix like environment (Linux, Mac, maybe WSL) and a 
> vt100 emulating terminal. xterm on Linux, iterm2 on Mac, not sure for 
> WSL. 
> 
> See videos/grox/snails.vt for that "nature" documentary mentioned above. 
> 
> slowcat -b 9600 videos/grox/snails.vt 
> 
> Several of the videos still have alt.ascii-art newsgroup headers from 
> the early 1990s. 
> 
> Elijah 
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> pointers to other videos welcome

Hi ... thats a nice collection of VTs you have there.




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                                           by R L Samuell
                                           [email protected]
                                           April 6, 1994
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