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Ansi/Ansi Viewer in Ecmascript
Coded by Sir Garbagetruck / Accession 2013
Uses fonts by DMG, http:trueschool.se
Uses SixteenColors textmode js library for rendering
-- This ANSI / Ascii viewer was designed SPECIFICALLY to address shortcomings with acidview and other viewers in running ANSI/Ascii compos. I've run the Breakpoint and Revision Ansi/Ascii compo for... um, I dunno how long. A while. Well there hasn't been a Breakpoint since 2010 and I did unofficial compos there for a few years. The first time I ran it, Acid View puked on me, and I heard a bunch of crap from people - because admittedly, when you submit something, you don't expect the viewer to flake out on you and make it so your entry only is on the screen for 5 seconds. In additional years it just got WORSE. I used 'a3b' to run the compo at Outline one year, and that worked fine - BUT most of the time the compo machine is running some crap OS that isn't Amiga and isn't Unix-like, so... PLUS the beam system (in the US 'beam system' would be 'projector' (: ) at most demoparties these days is set to do full HD... so if we just would do something in a browser, it would all work out nicely.
That was the impetus for this, and it's turned out... well, fairly well. It has been used at Revision 2013 and Evoke 2013, and the folks who saw their stuff in it have basically said it is really good. I think it needs a bit more feedback and some bugfixes, and the folks at sixteencolors have had some suggestions and then there's the "this could be included in ANSI packs" idea...
- To run this you should use a modern browser.
- "Modern" means "not IE."
- someone else might add stuff to make it work on IE.
- I will NOT incorporate that into this code.
- Android tablets ARE considered modern; Ipad/Iphone too.
- I haven't tested on MorphOS yet.
To use with local files you need to run your browser in "developer" mode, that means:
*** DO NOT OPEN ANY LINKS ON THE INTERNET ***
This works just fine if you use remote urls for the files.
*** DO NOT. EVER. MIX REMOTE AND LOCAL FILES WHEN USING THIS VIEWER. OR, FOR THAT MATTER, RUNNING JAVASCRIPT DEMOS THAT USE DEVELOPER / LOWER SECURITY MODE. PERIOD. THIS WARNING APPLIES TO YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY AND EVERY PERSON ALIVE, DEAD, OR IMAGINARY, INCLUDING THE NONEXISTENT. ***
This product is licensed under the WTFPL. See: http://www.wtfpl.net for details, or just get the license: http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
- tl;dr wtf omg how duz thz wrk omg wtf
- Place the important files (.js, .css, .html, .sahli) on a webserver or local directory.
- Put your ansi and ascii files on the webserver / local directory.
- Edit the 'list.sahli' file (it's json) to have the proper filenames.
- yes an editor is coming for the standalone
- for the integrated-with-partymeister version, partymeister will do the sorting/listgen and you will take the generated 'pack' and ... do something. I'll write that code at some point after we work out the details.
- If you want edit other stuff too, like the descriptions
- Open the index file in your browser. Something like http://localhost/somewhere/sahli/index.html or if it's on the web, then: http://www.example.com/ansiasciicompo/sahli/index.html
- When it says things are loaded, hit 'space' - OR ? or h ? and h are "help"
- Everything is done by keys.
- Ok on a tablet tap corners and stuff, cuz no keys.
- Great so yeah why is it 'Sahli'
Because I call Sal-One 'sally' and this is sort of close to how one might say it if you had a bad Finnish accent, rather than a Truck-can't-speak-Finnish-well accent.
- Example files are from Breakpoint 2013's compo, credits: H7/Blocktronics/Accession, Urs/Mercury, Ted/Pöo-crüe^3ln, Azzarro/Madwizards.