Star Wars through Terminal!

[swy32x]

I found this on another forum and thought some of you would enjoy it ...

Open up your terminal and then type in

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Its a text version of starwars! Remember those 80's/90's things where pictures where composed of letters? Well it strikes back! In Star Wars form!

Enjoy!

 

[gwuMACaddict]

at work now, but interested to try it once i get home... anyone want to post some screen shots?

 

[mad jew]

It's pretty cool. It just goes through the Star Wars story.

 

[iindigo]

looks better on a black background with white text:

 

[mad jew]

Very true. Thanks for the tip.

 

[gwuMACaddict]

haha- definitely gonna look in to it when i get home... thanks for the pictures!

 

[pulsewidth947]

Some people really need to get out once in a while..

But I'm glad they dont as this has brought a smile to my face

 

[Eniregnat]

I wonder if they actualy hand coded all the text of if they used the qt converter. Does anybody know where the QT to text frames converter can be found?

Edit: Proberly too much visual clutter to convert, and I think I just got caught watching this.

Edit 2: This looks as though it is one-to-one, in respect to time, with the movie. I have to play the movie audio while watching this.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

OMG! this is fantastic! truly amazing....

so are there any more ascii movies?

D

 

[greatdevourer]

Old, but oh so amazingly cool

 

[Eniregnat]

I found this ADC link.

ADC Article- ASCII Movie Player Bring back the glory days of ASCII art with ASCIIMoviePlayer! This sample demonstrates using a MovieDrawingCompleteProc to render a QuickTime movie in the Mac OS X Terminal. Yes, it's true, now you can enjoy the latest QuickTime Movie Trailers without leaving the comfort of the command line.

 

[Phat_Pat]

looks better on a black background with white text:

how do you get that


sorry don't use terminal much...

 

[ham_man]

Well now that is just bloody awesome. Good find Snowy...

 

[Eniregnat]

how do you get that
sorry don't use terminal much...

HD-->Utilities-->Terminal->Terminal>Window Settings>Select Color-select one of the presets or set it yourself.

 

[.Andy]

That's fantastic Snowy thanks heaps. It's funny but I can show people all the cool OSX features but it's the basic stuff like this and the psychiatrist and tetris in terminal that gets a wow from people .

 

[Sirus The Virus]

This is sweet!

 

[quackattack]

Very nice find, I am amazed at how detailed it it...

 

[jeremy.king]

Old news...YAWN

Surprised the repost police haven't made an arrest

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/65007/

 

[Phat_Pat]

HD-->Utilities-->Terminal->Terminal>Window Settings>Select Color-select one of the presets or set it yourself.

awesome thanks

 

[joecool85]

Wow, I'm glad it was reposted or I would have missed out! Did anyone else watch to the end? They didn't quite finish it...made it to where Han Solo and Luke are in the Storm Trooper outfits and start to blast stuff then says to be continued.

 

[Oryan]

That is so sweet!! Thanks for sharing it.

 

[cardiac dave]

Surprised the repost police haven't made an arrest

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/65007/

The repost police allow a certain amount of time to elapse though, right?
I mean your link was from March of 2004... that's like decades in this place.

 

[eXan]

Great!

 

[quackattack]

With the amount of discussion this has generated, I think we can allow the repost. I know I wouldn't have found it otherwise!

Maybe someone should have brought back the old thread.... for once I am happy to see a repost!