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TheaTTYr 🎥

A terminal theater for playing VT100 art and animations.

[!NOTE]
The VT100, introduced by DEC in 1978, was among the first video terminals to support ANSI escape codes.

The ANSI art scene used the VT100's animation capabilities, made possible by codes that allowed cursor movement, deletion, and character updates to create animated effects.

Usually, they represent a long hand-crafted process done by a single person to tell a story. Some of these files may date back to the 1960's and 1970's.

[!TIP]
I developed this tool over a series of livestreams, which you can check out here.

Installation

Cargo 📦

cargo install theattyr

Usage

Simply run theattyr and browse the terminal movies!

demo1

demo2

Or you can specify a file at the start via e.g. theattyr fireworks.vt:

demo3

  • Press Tab to hide the sidebar.
  • You can specify a FPS value via --fps argument. Run theattyr --help for other options.

List of Animations

See http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/

Details
File Description
bambi.vt Bambi vs. Godzilla
bambi_godzila Bambi Versus Godzilla, from Dave Brett
barney.vt Barney Being Crushed by a Rock
beer.vt Time for a Beer Break, Folks!
bevis.butthead.vt Beavis and Butthead
blinkeyes.vt Blinking Eyes
bomb.vt The Bomb Test
bugsbunny.vt Bugs Bunny: That's All, Folks
cartwhee.vt Doing a Cartwheel
castle.vt Disney's Fantasy in the Sky, by Don Bertino
cert18.vt Make Money Fast: The Revenge, by GtB (1993)
cow.vt Exploding Cow, Hauled off by U-Mass Food Service
cowboom.vt Cow Explodes, Gets Hauled Off
crash.vt Shuttle Blows Up
cursor.vt Cursor Control Examples in VT100
delay.vt A Small Delay
demo.vt Alan's Impressive Demonstration
dirty.vt Someone Having an Awful Amount of Fun
dogs.vt Fucking Dogs
dont-wor.vt George Custer's Last Stand: Don't Worry, be Happy
dontworry.vt Man Being Shot with Arrows: Don't Worry, Be Happy
duckpaint.vt Duck Painting
firework.vt Fireworks by Chen Lin
fireworks.vt Guy Setting Off Fireworks
fishy-fishy.vt 3-D Fishy Fishy
fishy.vt Fish Swimming By, Glug Glug
fishy2.vt Shamus the Fish by David Rybolt (1994)
flatmap.vt Shifting Flat World Map
frogs.vt Hopping Frog
glass.vt Filling Glass of Liquid
globe.vt ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT Spinning Globe
hallow.vt Happy Halloween
hello.vt HELLO!
juanspla.vt Plan File in the Form of a Typewriter
july.4.vt July 4th Animation
jumble.vt Now Is the Time for All Good Men
maingate.vt The Disneyland Main Gate, by Don Bertino
mark_twain.vt The Mark Twain Ferry, by Don Bertino
monkey.vt The Monkey Gives You The Finger
monorail.vt Disneyland's Monorail, by Don Bertino
moon.animation Winking Moon Says Good Evening
movglobe.vt Incredible Spinning, Moving Globe
mr_pumpkin Happy Halloween Pumpkin by Mike Kamlet
nasa.vt NASA: Keep Reaching for the Stars, by A.J.L.
new_year.vt Happy New Year to You
newbeer.vt Working on a VT100
nifty.vt Small Animated Word NIFTY
outerlimits.vt The Outer Limits
pac3d.vt Pac Man in 3-D Chomping a Ghost
paradise.vt A Bomb in Paradise by Gonad the Barbarian
peace.vt Imagine World Peace by John G. Poupore
prey.vt Klingon Bird of Prey
prey_col.vt Klingon Bird of Prey
safesex.vt Safe Sex (Literally)
shuttle.vt Technology, Who Needs It
skyway.vt Disneyland's Skyway, by Don Bertino
snowing Merry Christmas from Woodrow
snowing.vt Tis the Season: Merry Christmas
spinweb.vt Spinning Web by R.L. Samuell (April 6, 1994)
sship.vt Space Ship Warps and Fires
startrek.vt Star Trek Enterprise Blows up Politically Correct New Enterprise
strike.vt Bowling a Strike
sun.vt A Happy Sun
surf.vt Surfing Wave (In 3-D)
tetris.vt Tetris Game
tomorrw.vt Disneyland's Tomorrowland, by Don Bertino
torturet.vt VT100 FONT: The VT-100 Torture Test by Joe Smith (May 8, 1985)
treadmill.vt The Treadmill, by GtB Productions (1993)
trek.vt The Enterprise Blows up an RCA Satellite
trekvid.vt Politically Incorrect Star Trek
turkey.vt Happy Thanksgiving
tv.vt The Outer Limits Television Show
twilight.vt The Twilight Zone
twilightzone.vt Twilight Zone Opener
valentin.vt Happy Valentine's Day, Beth and Dave
valentine.vt Happy Valentine's Day, Jane and Chris
van_halen.vt Van Halen's Song 5150, Animated
wineglas.vt Wine Glass Filling
xmas-00.vt Santa Holds Moving Sign: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
xmas-01.vt Merry Christmas
xmas-02.vt Bird Flies By, Tree Grows, Merry Christmas
xmas-03.vt Merry Christmas (Tree, Train, Presents)
xmas-04.vt Merry Christmas, Champagne Glass Filling, Jack-in-the-Box
xmas-05.vt Happy Holidays, Starry Night, Christmas Tree, by Peter
xmas-06.vt Merry Christmas: Hearth and Tree
xmas-07.vt A Christmas Card: Merry Christmas, from MIS
xmas-08.vt Christmas Eve, 1992 (1992)
xmas-09.vt Merry Christmas: Reindeer Land on Roof
xmas.large Compilation of Several Christmas Animations
xmas.vt Merry Christmas
xmas2.vt Large Collection of Christmas Animations
xmasshort.vt Merry Christmas, Tree, Train, Present
zorro.vt The Story of Zorro by Cian O'Kiersey

License

License: MIT License: Apache 2.0

Licensed under either of Apache License Version 2.0 or The MIT License at your option.

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Copyright © 2024, Orhun Parmaksız

Dependencies

~19–30MB
~371K SLoC