Re: slowcat and vt100 animations

[tom]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:59:37 +0000 (UTC)
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> 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
> ------
> pointers to other videos welcome

Thank you so much for sharing this. I enjoyed it a lot.