Comment by sargstuff

Very old school:

ASP[0] was old way to do character animations for unix finger command .plan.

Recall HN post using python to do the same (handled animation independent of serial terminal speed).

Related HN post "John Carmack's .plan file" [3]

hascii mation [1]; Use standard graphics techniques and run through [2] or .plan with unscii[4]

"sheltered code" via mindcraft : https://youtu.be/7sNge0Ywz-M

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ascii animation tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5v-NS9o4yc

[0] :Ah, ASP link has been merged with /dev/null. :(

     ASP and related things for animated .plan : https://superuser.com/questions/253308/scrolling-plan-file

[1] : http://viznut.fi/unscii/