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echo: rberrypi
to: CGIBBS@KLTPZYXM.INVALID
from: ELI THE BEARDED
date: 2020-08-20 06:39:00
subject: Re: Lightweight Browser

In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Charlie Gibbs   wrote:
> Wow, we've come a long way from the Andalusian Video Snail
> (which, unfortunately, I can no longer find).

https://grox.net/misc/vt/

snails.vt

These days you probably want "slowcat" to view them, same site:

https://grox.net/software/mine/slowcat/

./slowcat -d 80000 snails.vt

worked okay for me, but not nearly as well as I think it would be on a
real slow terminal.

> I think I still have a copy of the file full of VT-100 escape sequences
> which draws a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a train running
> around it.

xmas.vt at the grox site.

More "videos": http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/

/* cc signature.c -lm&&./a.out>a.out.out&&slowcat -d 40000 a.out.out */
main(){int i,j,k,l;for(i=-12;i<13;i++,printf("\e[H")){for(l=61968*457+1
,l*=5;l>8;l>>=4)p(97-(l>>22)+(l&15));for(j=-12;j<12;){for(k=j+12?-12:-6
;12>k;)p((l=k*k+++i*i+j*j)<12*12?(l=sqrt(l))[".,:;iIJYVSOM"]:32);j++<11
?p(10):0;}}puts("Elijah\n------\n*@qaz.wtf");}p(int m){printf("%c",m);}

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