it pains me to have an ANSI animation called "MS-DOS Escape Sequences"
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...
Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)
It looks a little bit like the animation seen in the "8088 Domination" demo in how you can see the screen get redrawn incrementally. But 8088 Domination syncs up with the music.
This one does not sync with the music.
I think it needs to consider how long each frame takes to draw, and skip frames when behind. (Or render a partially finished frame, as done in the 8088 domination demo)
pre MS-DOS, there was a piece of humorous, very low resolution pr0n, ANSI/ASCII video art that was distributed on DECUS tapes. (Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society) It was contained in a file named JACK.OFF, nudge nudge wink wink say-no-more.
I've been searching for a copy of this for a long long time but I can't find it in any of the DECUS archives I've found. Anybody have it?
it's tuned for about 2400 baud, iirc. The DEC users society was a pre-internet sort of open source, data tapes with a ton of useful tools, utilities, source, tons of useful stuff.
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Also know as ANSI art, which has a long and rich history. [0] There’s nothing particularly difficult or noteworthy about this as a technical accomplishment.
EDIT: Usually the point of converting Bad Apple to an outdated or unusual formats/systems is as a creative or technical hack, but converting it to ANSI can literally be done with a ffmpeg one-liner.
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art