Switch your display to 16-bit color mode, drop it in, reboot, party on.
Known bugs:
1. Booting with your display not in 16-bit colors will cause you to crash.
2. Switching resolutions with asciiMac installed will cause you to... um... try and see for yourself :)
3. Only works with PCI Power Macintoshes.
Caps Lock will toggle asciiMac on/off.
F1 toggles asciiMac status display on/off.
F3/F4 changes desired number of frames per second down/up.
F5/F6 changes contrast control down/up.
F7/F8 changes brightness control down/up.
Status Display:
B: <brightness>
C: <contrast>
D: <desired frames per second>
F: <actual frames per second>
No function keys on your Mac? Buy a copy of CodeWarrior and fix it.
The sources are available at <http://web.mit.edu/macdev/asciiMac/>.
Thanks to Sam Bushell, Maynard Handley, Marshall Vale, and Quinn "The Eskimo" for help with bit-diddling, data-shoving, pixel-mangling, and the spiffy presentation.
Feel free to use the asciiMac source in any shareware or freeware program. Please contact the author(s) for permission to use the source in any commercial product.
Feel free to use the Vertical Hold source in any shareware or freeware program. Please contact the author(s) for permission to use the source in any commercial product.
Portions of the ASCIIfication algorithm are:
Copyright Feb, 1994 Paul Kline. pk6811s@acad.drake.edu. All rights to these tables and gif-ascii conversion routines reserved. These tables and routines may be copied and distributed except that no computer program may be developed from them for commercial or for-profit purposes without the express written permission of the copyright holder. This notice is not to be understood as granting such permission. All output of the program is the property of the owner of the input.