Every year for the 4th of May there is a surprise for us. 🙂
If you are a Star Wars fan, May is always an interesting month.
Do you want to watch the Episode IV in an alternative way?
You can watch the film directly from your favorite terminal.
In my case I am using Windows Terminal, but it works in every terminals.
You just need telnet installed on your machine.
Install Telnet on Windows 11
Telnet is not installed by default on Windows 11 (in Windows 10, as well) but you can install it very easily from the Command Prompt.
Open a terminal and launch the command below:
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient
Close all the terminal windows.
Watch the movie
As I mentioned before I use Windows Terminal as default terminal during my daily activities.
To watch the movie, open Windows Terminal and launch the command below:
telnet starwarstel.net
Enjoy the movie!!! 😀
Based on the following repo, you can also use ssh or Docker.
gabe565
/
ascii-movie
Star Wars SSH + Telnet server written in Go.
ASCII Movie
Stream the original Star Wars ASCII movie to command-line clients via SSH or Telnet.
Inspired by asciimation and the iconic towel.blinkenlights.nl, this Go rewrite introduces an interactive UI with both keyboard and mouse support.
Try It
Run one of these commands in a terminal to see it in action:
-
SSH:
ssh starwarstel.net -
Telnet:
telnet starwarstel.net -
Docker:
docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/gabe565/ascii-movie play
ascii-movie.mp4
Also available on asciinema
Installation
See Installation.
Usage
The app can play a movie directly on your terminal with the play subcommand, or it can host SSH and Telnet servers with the serve subcommand.
See generated docs for command line usage information.
Docker (Suggested)
An image is available at ghcr.io/gabe565/ascii-movie.
Watch Locally
The following command will run a container that plays the movie directly in your terminal.
sudo docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/gabe565/ascii-movie play
Serve Movie over Telnet and SSH
The following…
Alternatives for SSH and Docker
SSH: ssh starwarstel.net
Docker: docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/gabe565/ascii-movie play
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Top comments (3)
thanks :D
can you share the source and the step then put it on
github? :Djust in case, the site is also
downordisappear somedaycan you make it for mac?