World Cup in ASCII

[Patches]

<p>This is really cool-</p><p>go to your start button, then run, then type cmd</p><p>at the prompt in the black box type:</p><p>telnet ascii-wm.net 2006</p><p>make the box as big as possible- it should only expand vertically though... </p>

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if anyone out there can tell me how the fuck this works, I am all ears.. I think its pretty damn cool.

[furie]

what's a start button?

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<strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />what's a start button? <p>dude...</p><p>get moving- you are missing the coolness!!</p>

[Plethora]

<strong>Patches</strong> wrote:<br />if anyone out there can tell me how the fuck this works, I am all ears.. I think its pretty damn cool.<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someone has setup a video &rarr; ASCII art converter and is probably catching the closed captioning for the running commentary at the bottom.&nbsp; Wickedly cool hack really.&nbsp; Nifty.&nbsp; The ASCII art for the long shots of the field stink really, but it is quite cool when they zoom in on an individual player.&nbsp; Thanks for sharing this thing.</p><p>BTW, here's a link to a <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/26/1617217.shtml" target="_blank">slashdot article</a> about someone doing this with a live cam.... probably some sort of derivation of that.&nbsp; There are a bunch of articles though, check <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+video+%2Bsite%3Aslashdot.org" target="_self">Google</a>.</p>

[JimBeam]

<p>All I've gotten is this :</p><p>C:&gt;telnet ascii-wrn.net 2006<br />Connecting To ascii-wrn.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 200<br />6: Connect failed</p><p>C:&gt;telnet ascii-wm.net 2006<br />Connecting To ascii-wm.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 2006<br />: Connect failed</p>

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<p>try copying and pasting the command from the first post in the box- i just did that and it worked.&nbsp; </p><p>And yep Pleth... it is a little lame when there isn't a player- can't tell whats going on, but when there is its sick.</p>

[Plethora]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>JimBeam</strong> wrote:<br /><p>All I've gotten is this :</p><p>C:&gt;telnet ascii-wrn.net 2006<br />Connecting To ascii-wrn.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 200<br />6: Connect failed</p><p>C:&gt;telnet ascii-wm.net 2006<br />Connecting To ascii-wm.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 2006<br />: Connect failed</p><p> </p><p>That's the correct command, so I'm guessing that you have firewall issues.</p><p>Here's the site:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ascii-wm.net/">http://www.ascii-wm.net/</a> </p><p>But I don't think it's going to help you past the firewall issue. </p>

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone that has access to netcat (linux most likely), try this instead:</p><p><font face="courier new,courier,monospace">nc ascii-wm.net 2006</font></p><p>it's a bit better<br /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Plethora on 6-9-06 @ 4:56 PM</span>