WOOHOO!

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:06 am

ok i'm way to late and probably nobody will believe me since the answer is given but yes i knew of lynx and have even used it on two - 2!!! - websites lol

i have no qualms about proclaming my love for a decent gui (text-only fanatics are often very angry and "misunderstood" - i've met a few) i even play nethack with graphics!

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:08 am

lol n54 i believe you

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:22 pm

sweet! i think i remember that now... it used to be only for linux, correct?

i love everything using ASCII instead of graphics. i even have this movieplayer somewhere that lets you view movies as text characters not pixels. still has some work to go on it, but perty damn cool.

node, how's this for insane- last year when i was playing the text-based nethack, angband and rogue games i was using a gamepad as my inout device. hehe

subby · Post by **subby** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:31 pm

nicolas.b wrote:sweet! i think i remember that now... it used to be only for linux, correct?

i love everything using ASCII instead of graphics. i even have this movieplayer somewhere that lets you view movies as text characters not pixels. still has some work to go on it, but perty damn cool.

node, how's this for insane- last year when i was playing the text-based nethack, angband and rogue games i was using a gamepad as my inout device. hehe

have you ever heard of "aa" it's an ascii graphics library, with a reallly REALLY cool demo with it (called bb, on the same page)

check out it out here

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/

if you dont want to compile etc just check out some of the pictures it can produce (but doesnt do it justice):

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/

edit: bb demo link-

http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/source ... b-fnl3.zip

make sure you run it in full screen mode (ie press alt-enter in console window)

Edit2:

it looks a lot better under linux etc, so if you can do that i'd recomment it over the dos/windows version

I promise that was the last edit

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:22 pm

nicolas.b wrote:sweet! i think i remember that now... it used to be only for linux, correct?

afaik that is still true

nicolas.b wrote:node, how's this for insane- last year when i was playing the text-based nethack, angband and rogue games i was using a gamepad as my inout device. hehe

thats damnd cool lol, i wish i could set up something to play armagetron on my tv with a game controller, problems:
- would need a new tv lol (big problem this one)
- must figure out pc-to-tv cabling mess (blarg!)
- must buy controller (the easiest part)
- but how to solve the problem of ingame chat from a controller???

i'm just dreaming

and subby that was some really really nice links

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:30 pm

n54 wrote:i wish i could set up something to play armagetron on my tv

I actually did this last year

. We was at school and I had brought a full sized keyboard and my laptop so we could play armagetron. Well, we were left alone in a room with this massive, like 40-something inch sony flat screen tv. (not flat panel- just the screen was flat.) Not only was the tv there, but there was an svideo cable there too, and my laptop had svideo out! We hooked it up and played armagetron on the big screen for like 20 minutes before we had to go to the next class. I'll never forget it. (Or at least forget it any time soon...)

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:43 pm

wow tank that sounds really fun

was this in sweden? did you convert anybody to armagetron? (yeah i know this game isn't a religion but boy can it seem religious lol)

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:51 pm

last year in the us...

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:35 pm

yeah i actually need to get my pc to tv connection to work, for some reason the software in my Radeon video card is not working right, so i need to download some new drivers probably
but my friends and i have been watching movies we downloaded off the internet for like 2 years now because of pc to tv connections

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:37 pm

that was probably responsible for the burst of zapples that appeared around that time.

(J/K zapple!

)

and node, if you get a gamepad with enough buttons, you can easily setup up the 'spares' as chatkeys. well, it's a compromise...

(my gravis has 14 with an alternate-set hot button, for a total of 28 )

EDIT: dammit, prey, you did it again! >(

#%$#@ speed-poster.

subby · Post by **subby** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:33 am

n54 wrote:
nicolas.b wrote:sweet! i think i remember that now... it used to be only for linux, correct?
afaik that is still true

Thats definatly not a fact. I know this program ver well b/c back in 1994 onwards (until i got my own ISP) I was doing my batchelor of APllied Physics, and the only dial in we got for internet was a telnet vt220 connection from home (for undergraduates) So the programs i used were "elm" for email, "nn" for newsgroups, gopher for gophering (precurser to www) and lynx for www (when that became popular) and ohh offcourse most of the time was spent using "ftp" and "chat" in conjunction with "finger". Unfortunatly "muds" were banned and blocked so i never got to know what all that was about

and to quote from the lynx site:

www.lynx.browser.org wrote:Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Lynx 2.8.3 runs on Un*x, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT but not 3.1 or 3.11, on DOS (386 or higher) and OS/2 EMX. The current developmental version is also available for testing. Ports to Mac are in beta test.

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:34 pm

Are you guys still having trouble seeing Zapple's avatar? Quite original. That is too bad.

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:05 pm

i see a broken image link

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:06 pm

ok subby, nice to know

and prey LOL i don't see any of the postings of that picture either (maybe i have stronger security than you guys??)

subby · Post by **subby** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:08 am

Tank Program wrote:i see a broken image link

me too.