I like text mode. Not because X and vga (adapters) sux, but because i have no art vision at all. I amazed by any trivial paining and drawing, required in art/architecture courses (not by official art, though).
I happened to see some ascii art occasionally, never thought, that there was/is some kind of society around that. Saw `bb` (aalib demo), as well as text rendering engine for GTK2 3 years ago. Now i have time and internet to see and do some stuff. I also have shell/sed skills upgrade, so imagination works in many ways on that, how user interface in ttys, text processing of any kind (e.g sources, data) can be improved to be more productive, efficient and interesting. How boring and ugly thing, like console messaging, shell command line, make menuconfig (in linux), emacs UI are, even, when you got used to it. Used `linuxlogo` on my prev. machine. The Debian Logo there, is the ugliest thing i ever saw. Not only look, but also unimplemented background coloring are things, that i don't like. I did some editing to original swirl. I think, new one looks much better. After applying of some coloring, i happened to do trivial color-filling animation. <ftp://flower.upol.cz/upload/debian.sh> Then i started to think, why there are no suck things every where. Like in install, package update, boot (see, pa, no `splash' and kernel patching needed) and all other sorts of boring processes most people doing in a tty. After another wave of aa mood, i happened to see text mode demos, like <http://taat.fi/tmdc/tmdc8inv.zip> (win32 exe) <ftp://flower.upol.cz/upload/TMDC8/> (screenshots) This invitation demo to tmdc8 is just awesome. I still am listening just music track from it. Happened to read stuff, like this: <http://www.soledadpenades.com/2006/10/11/ubuntu-and-the-demoscene/> (yes, stupid boot process for millions of luzerz, booting everyday) Most funny thing is, that GFX for awesome demo above is written by non other, than DPL Sam. Oh well... -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
