MacSwitching.com » Apple videos http://www.macswitching.com The resource to people switching to the Mac (and to MacLife altogether): Mac OS X integration, Mac-Windows interoperability, iPod and most Macintosh-related topics! Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Run Telnet and Watch Star Wars in full ASCII–high-definition! http://www.macswitching.com/index.php/2009/07/18/run-telnet-and-watch-star-wars-in-full-ascii-high-definition/ http://www.macswitching.com/index.php/2009/07/18/run-telnet-and-watch-star-wars-in-full-ascii-high-definition/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:28:53 +0000 The MacSwitcher http://www.macswitching.com/index.php/2009/07/18/run-telnet-and-watch-star-wars-in-full-ascii-high-definition/ Terminal usage shouldn’t deserve a boring reputation: here’ one more reason!

ASCII art has been with us as long as we’ve been using computers, and there’s a lot of great ASCII animation out there. How about watching the original Star Wars in ASCII animation?

ascii animation star warsA telnet server out there on the Internet serves up this amazing adaptation.

Just enter telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and hit return.

You’re definitely right: it’s Star Wars – Episode IV: A new hope!

The guy behind this masterpiece is Simon Jansen: kudos Simon!

Feel lazy?
Get here and watch ASCII-Star Wars in video (losing a lot of the fun…)

By the way, this is version of Star Wars doesn’t need any video codec and is fully compatible with any OS (maybe a Commodore 64 with suitable TCP/IP stack too!).

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Starting from June, Youtube contents will be browsable from Apple TV just like any other iTunes content.

How nice will be to watch that zillion videos from the Apple TV device?

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Ok, this video may recall us this simple word, or not?

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