Wednesday, August 17, 2005

ASCII Star Wars Via Telnet

By David Ponce

I write about this for a few reasons. One, I think it embodies the geek spirit quite well. Two, while not exactly new, the delivery method is. What am I talking about?

Well, some ambitious folks have created an ASCII version of the film Star Wars IV. While ASCII art is not hot off the press, the fact that you can now easily view this masterpiece through telnet is. Read on a bit for clear instructions.

If you’re using Mac, open up Terminal, or “CMD??? from the run option of your Windows PC. Type in “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” and hit enter a few times. Your truly geeky, wonderfully remastered ASCII version of one of the greatest films of all time will start shortly. Should you have IP V6, you get color!

Story VIA Gearlive.


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  • http://blog.morlin.se/?p=84 BLOG.MORLIN » Blog Archive » Star Wars i ASCII

    [...] ommandotolk och slå enter några gånger så sätter det igång. Härligt Geekigt. (via ohgizmo) Postad av Ekka klockan 14:24. Arkiverad under Interne [...]

  • eirik

    this is really really old :P

  • KPrime

    Woah, the 90′s called they want their story back. I remember telneting there back in college, so around 98-99, and it had been out a while then.

  • Michael MacSlatherbuns

    Ha! It’s older than that! This wasn’t new in the early 1990s when I first got on the ‘net via my uni’s decrepit VAXen.

  • http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=839 OhGizmo! » Star Wars As An Animated GIF

    [...] A while ago, I was lynched for posting information about a centuries old version of Star Wars in ASCII. Well, hell, I thought it was pretty cool, and still do. [...]

  • Anonymous

    This is great stuff! ASCII. Telnet. I’m gonna hook up my TTY and the ol’ IMSAI 8080 Computer to my acoustic coupler and let ‘er rip!

  • http://bnpositive.com/blog/?p=267 =) Bnpositive’s Blog » Star Wars Episode IV as animated GIF

    [...] And if you’d rather watch the entire movie as an ASCII file, check it out here. « For you bicyclists!   [...]

  • http://www.toys4geeks.com/index.php/?p=90 Toys4Geeks » Blog Archive » ASCII Star Wars – No Wonder Star Wars Fans Are Labeled As Geeks

    [...] OHGizmo [...]

  • http://infohatter.com/blog/ascii-starwars/ InfoHatter Blog!

    ASCII Starwars…

    If you haven’t seen this yet, let me bring it to your attention – I found it on the OhGizmo Blog…
    Telnet to
    towel.blinkenlights.nl
    and enjoy the show. It’s actually quit cool. Must have took alot more work that you would expect……

  • activetrail

    email marketing sent me this story on my email LOL

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