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.<p>EDIT: Usually the point of converting Bad Apple to an outdated or unusual formats/systems is as a creative or technical hack, but converting it to ANSI can literally be done with a ffmpeg one-liner.<p>0: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art</a>
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Terminal_Assembler_and_Recreator" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi...</a> ) 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...<p>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.<p>This one does not sync with the music.<p>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.<p>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?<p>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.