Ascii Art on ipod

Hmmm, maybe! if you make the ascii art in ipod's font and make it somehow fit in the screen space.

If any1 has made some ascii art that will work with the ipods font, could they post it here?

Originally posted by n3tfury
Google much?

"ASCII art is any sort of pictures or diagrams drawn with the printable characters in the ASCII character set."

from simple (http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/my/) to not-so-simple (http://www.arkworld.com/ascii/other/calvhob.htm)

That second pic is cool as ####...:cool:

It must take a lot patience to make those

Actually, that was probably made using a program. People are always amazed that somebody translated bits of Star Wars into ascii. Few realize that the person just dropped a .mov into a program and let his computer chug away at it for a while. Perhaps it was a bit more complicated and required the extraction of still shots, but trust me: it was automated.

but i was wondering if there was any ascii that would fit properly on the screnn of an ipod and look right?
:confused: :confused:

@n3tfury: I often open threads of interest and type at them when I have the chance. This can be over the course of half an hour or more, sometimes. I should have refreshed before posting. Still, I feel that I contributed something new to the conversation.

@sejtraav: No . . . idea. . . but with the recent firmware hacks, you might as well just drop a real image in there instead.

Originally posted by Nom
@n3tfury: I often open threads of interest and type at them when I have the chance. This can be over the course of half an hour or more, sometimes. I should have refreshed before posting. Still, I feel that I contributed something new to the conversation.



yeah, i was hasty in replying to that, it's just a pet peeve of mine. at least you explained yourself. thx.

K' perhapss it just me but, why does everyone call the iPodOS 'Frimware? Do you call Windows, Linux or OS X a Fimware too?

Will switching from Windows or OS X to say Linux, blow-up your Box? No not likely (in the long run...). It's just an OS Operating System Folks, not a Firmware e.g. BIOS Blowing that up will screw-up your Box and or iPod. Thankfully you can not change the BIOS on your iPOD.

That thing in the yellow circle is where you would / should be able to write to the BIOS (a.k.a Firmware)...

Note: This is a picture of my dead 5Gb G1 'Pod. I do not know if Apple left such a place to 'Diagnose' there latter models...

@Ichijoe: We call it firmware because that's what it is. According to Wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware

"In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device, that allows reading and executing the software, but does not allow modification, e.g., writing or deleting data by an end user."

OSX is a proper operating system, unlike iPodOS as you term it (which is correctly referred to as "firmware"). The iPod firmware is probably run from a flash ROM chip on the board, not the hard drive like with OSX, Windows, *nix, etc. Yes, the BIOS contains firmware too, but that is not the only place read-only software is used.

Originally posted by sejtraav
this is the only ascii i have found so far that will work on the ipod screen
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:D