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Book for sanity/insanity break: "10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10"
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This was tricky to do!

[Image: 2023-08-22-003039-1366x768-scrot.png]

Tricky because:
  • was using Slackware Linux clone,
  • used MATE Terminal for display,
  • used Freebasic to make sure it could do Unicode,
  • used Gucharmap to figure out QB64-AS-INTEGER range Unicode character codes and turn them into UTF-8,
  • has no desktop "screenshooter" and therefore had to write a "bash" script, and execute that, which runs the executable created by Freebasic and then "scrot" to create the screenshot.

Probably the program works if "$CONSOLE:ONLY" is added at the top.

I had written a similar program that does random ASCII art business for a few seconds and then scrolls right to left. It involved using those total-diagonal characters but I created them all for my program out of raster techniques. My work looked funnier than the screenshot above presents, which is near perfect although a bit too thin for some people.
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RE: Book for sanity/insanity break: "10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10" - by mnrvovrfc - 08-22-2023, 12:32 AM

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