ASCII NATION
Hello intrigued readers ! Well surely you must be wondering what's been
hanging around in Maggie main editor's head lately. It happends CiH had a nice
idea : write a full Star Wars parody using ascii characters ! Uh ? Yep mam'
More coming up right after this.
As a matter of fact, Ascii Nation is entirely based on the Maggie shell
which is not necessarily a good start : the shell gfx are too greenish and the
ripped or scanned picture of low quality. Besides, tho not bad, the chip will
keep torturing you after a while unless you decide to kill it once and for all.
Last but not least the default color set is about grey scales, something I
cannot understand since other color sets are much more pleasant especially as
you're going to stick to your screen for quite a while.
Back to the purpose of this strange magazine. As CiH explains in the edito
he wanted to write a series of articles using ascii characters. He started it
as an Alive article but the whole thing grew out of control and finally reached
the size of a well grown magazine. So here we stand waiting for the story to
start. As said before this is a parody and it's quite funny from what I've read
so far. The Ascii ppl are ok and dialogs are funny enough to get you shortly
addicted ! Btw I managed to grab a piece of it to let you taste it yourself :
(Cue music! Orchestra play dammit! - Da da da DAH DAH! etc)
. . . Many years ago . .
. . . in a distant galaxy . . .
. . far away, a long way away, . .
. . we are talking about a lot further .
. than the journey to the corner shop, or . .
. even the distance to go to Gdansk! In fact, we .
. are talking billions and squillions of light years .
. away, that a princess lived in her peaceful planet home
of Boogaloo. Her people were happy and contented, but elsewhere
many disturbing things were afoot! Oh yes, I suppose I've got to get
some mention of a big scary Death-Star type of thing in here, but that
comes a bit later in the story. For now, we get to meet our principal
characters, just to simmer the excitement levels down a bit.....
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\{:}/ Another lovely day with my 'No there aren't any
sSSSSSs / happy Boogaloo people, I Ma'am, we're all happy.'
SS{@ @}SS wonder if there are any
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ss \<_>/ ss for me to comfort? \\// , \/ ,
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On the Planet Boogaloo, home of the lovely Princess Oranjeboom,
everything seems hunky-dory...
The story is quite long and comes divided into several chapters. So far I've
only read a couple of them but it reads easily and you always want to read
more at least it got me interested :) Of course if you don't like ascii art,
star wars, parodies or CiH (:) you'd better forget about it right now. If not
I'm sure that this uncommon magazine - if we can still call it so - will
appeal to you !
Bottom Line : erm still these not-so-good-on-St Maggie shell :( But you should
not stop here as there is plenty to entertain you in a very well thought way.
Just give it a try and you'll quickly know if you like it or not.
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