AcerAspirant
April 18th, 2009, 12:52 AM
Hey guys,
I'm trying to develop a lightweight chat/email-client between two Linux machines. The point is to make it as barebones-looking as possible, with a 1980s retro aesthetic. Think the green IBM text of the Matrix, or better yet, the game Defcon (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/home.html) (especially the intro screen). Or, of course, the film WarGames. So I'm wondering, does anyone have any suggestions on how to do that? I was thinking of modifying a Python chat client a friend painstakingly wrote in Python that used curses, but I think to be honest I can just write a shell script that allows messages between the two machines, and outputs random flavor text (troop movement stats, ascii images, meaningful-looking code!) between transmissions. What commands would I need for that?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advice.
I'm trying to develop a lightweight chat/email-client between two Linux machines. The point is to make it as barebones-looking as possible, with a 1980s retro aesthetic. Think the green IBM text of the Matrix, or better yet, the game Defcon (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/home.html) (especially the intro screen). Or, of course, the film WarGames. So I'm wondering, does anyone have any suggestions on how to do that? I was thinking of modifying a Python chat client a friend painstakingly wrote in Python that used curses, but I think to be honest I can just write a shell script that allows messages between the two machines, and outputs random flavor text (troop movement stats, ascii images, meaningful-looking code!) between transmissions. What commands would I need for that?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advice.