Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

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Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#1 Post by miskox » 01 Nov 2020 05:40

Here https://www.vt100.net/dec/animation/ you can see some .txt files that you can
type *.txt
and see some animation. Some might work some will not display correctly (they are for original DEC Video Terminals).

All .txt files are included in the .zip.
xmas.zip
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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#2 Post by aGerman » 01 Nov 2020 08:22

The Windows Terminal is able to handle those escape sequences pretty well
https://aka.ms/terminal
But I'm afraid my machine is way too fast and I can't see any animation.

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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#3 Post by penpen » 01 Nov 2020 20:04

I suspect some vt100 sequences are (actually) not supported by the console, but this fast hack might help:

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@echo off
setlocal enableExtensions enableDelayedExpansion

set "xmas2.speed=800"
for %%a in (*.txt) do (
	cls
	call :play "%%~a" !%%~na.speed!
	pause
)
goto :eof
call :play file [skip] [speed]


:play
setlocal
set "file=%~1"
set /a "delay=1000-%~2+0"
for /f "tokens=1* delims=:" %%a in ('findstr /n "^" "%file%"') do (
	for /l %%w in (1, 1, %delay%) do rem:
	echo(%%b
)
endlocal
goto :eof
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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#4 Post by miskox » 02 Nov 2020 02:32

@penpen: thanks. This works very well. Though I see some 'undefined' characters on my Win10.

Yes, original DEC Video Terminals were not that fast.

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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#5 Post by jfl » 02 Nov 2020 03:04

Cute, thanks for sharing :-)

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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#6 Post by IcarusLives » 03 Nov 2020 22:33

I have a question for @penpen!

Why add 0 to this? :)

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set /a "delay=1000-%~2+0"
I was inspecting your code, but I am curious if I am missing something here?

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Re: Some holiday animations (from Vt100.net)

#7 Post by ShadowThief » 03 Nov 2020 22:54

IcarusLives wrote:
03 Nov 2020 22:33
I have a question for @penpen!

Why add 0 to this? :)

Code: Select all

set /a "delay=1000-%~2+0"
I was inspecting your code, but I am curious if I am missing something here?
I'm guessing it's to prevent syntax errors if %2 isn't provided

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